                              XQF v0.5
                           (Feb 23, 1998)

DESCRIPTION
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XQF is QuakeWorld/Quake2 server browser and launcher for Linux/X11.
It uses the GTK (http://www.gimp.org/gtk) toolkit.  XQF is a frontend
to QStat (http://www.activesw.com/people/steve/qstat.html), a program
by Steve Jankowski.

Development platform: Linux-2.0.33/libc6, XFree86-3.3.1, GTK-0.99.3. 

Features:
  - supports QuakeWorld and Quake II 
  - uses QStat to communicate with masters/servers 
  - displays player info and server rules
  - servers can be sorted by ping/timeouts (default), IP, number of 
    players, name, map, game type 
  - players can be sorted by frags (default), name, ping, connection
    time, colors, skin 
  - simple filtering for servers 
  - gameplay preferences 
  - customizable player profile 
  - QuakeWorld skin visualization with coloring 
  - automatic QuakeWorld pushlatency 
  - favorite server list 
  - player finding

To do:
  - non-blocking interface to QStat
  - DNS lookups
  - demo recording
  - interface improvement (pixmaps, comboboxes, etc...)


COMPILATION
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GTK-0.99.3 is required to compile.

Untar the xqf-0.5.tar.gz archive, change directory to xqf-0.5, "make".


USAGE
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QStat2.0 required.  It must be in your $PATH.

Double left-clicking launches game on selected server.
Right click pops up server option menu.
Middle click refreshes selected server information.

XQF looks for master.dat file (GameSpy-like QuakeWorld master list) in
$HOME/.qf, QuakeWorld working directory, /usr/local/lib, /usr/lib.

There is no way to retrieve Q2 server lists from the net.  The only
way is to get server list from somewhere, convert it to XQF-format by
hand and append it to $HOME/.qf/Quake_II file.

The Quake_II file in the distribution contains converted list of Q2
servers by Steve Jankowski.  The list's URL is
http://www.activesw.com/people/steve/q2servers.txt.

Please send bug reports or suggestions to roma@botik.ru


AVAILABILITY
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  http://www.botik.ru/~roma/quake/
  ftp://ftp.botik.ru/pub/local/roma/quake/

Mirrors:

  http://www.wh9.tu-dresden.de/~ftp/pub/quake/linux/xqf/
  ftp://www.wh9.tu-dresden.de/pub/quake/linux/xqf/


COPYRIGHT
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XQF is Copyright (C) 1998 Roman Pozlevich <roma@botik.ru>

Copying is allowed under the terms of GNU General Public License.  
See the file COPYING for more details.


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Roman Pozlevich <roma@botik.ru>

