More information coming soon.  Work in progress.
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See also: http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Candide
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PBot requires Perl 5.10, especially for !cc 
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PBot is intended for the Freenode IRC network.  As such, it has not been
tested on other networks.  Some IRC features, such as NickServ auto-join, may need adjusting.
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The first thing you'll want to do is edit pbot.pl and change the default
settings: 

  * If you did not extract/checkout PBot into ~/pbot (where ~/pbot/PBot 
contains the PBot.pm module), you'll want to change $pbothome in pbot.pl 
to point to the directory that contains the PBot, config, data, etc directories.

  * Change the IRC settings in pbot.pl so that the bot-nick and identify password are
associated with a registered NickServ account, if you want channel auto-join to succeed.
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Then you'll need to get several modules from CPAN.  If you do not have root access, see
http://perl.jonallen.info/writing/articles/install-perl-modules-without-root

Net::IRC
AppConfig::Std
Data::Dumper
Getopt::Std
HTML::Entities
HTML::FormatText
HTML::Parse
IPC::Open2
LWP::Simple
LWP::UserAgent
LWP::UserAgent::WithCache
Net::Dict
SOAP::Lite
Text::Autoformat
Text::Balanced
URI::Escape
WWW::Wikipedia
XML::RSS
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Some quick-and-dirty info on using stdin (pbot shell after running pbot.sh):

< pragma_> you can type in the bot's stdin to talk in channels as the bot
< candide> hi
< pragma_> that was typing 'msg #pbot2 hi' from the bot's stdin
< pragma_> you can send bot commands to channel by using ~channel command
< pragma_> like ~channel kick <args>
< pragma_> because kick has to be used in a channel
< pragma_> and you can still background the bot with ^Z
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Coming soon to README:

* Description of each PBot module, for customisation.
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Todo:

* Add SSL and port options to pbot.pl.