this directory contains various patches that have been sent to the ircII project for possible inclustion, as well as other interesting tools useful for ircii. they are detailed below, but, beware that they may or may not work, or even patch cleanly. check_load - a patch to allow fascist administrators to make their users client's automatically exit if the machine load average gets higher than a pre-defined limit. this patch is not scheduled for inclusion in to any future ircII release. random_nick - patch to allow ircII to randomly choose a nickname when one is required "immediately". this patch will probably not be included in future ircII. noansi.c - program to remove dos ansi colour sequences. the colour support has been integrated. the japanese support has been integrated.