GINTERFACE
---------------------

			ginterface is an instant messenger application to communicate with people. It has gifserver and gifclient. gifserver runs in CUI and gifclient in GUI. 

INSTALLATION
-------------------------

	Copy the tar file to any folder and untar that.

	$ tar -xvzf ginterface-1.2.5.tar.gz

	Now the 'ginterface-1.2.5' folder contains two folders 'gifclient' and 'gifserver'. Installing these two are given below.


gifserver
-------------
	Go into the 'gifserver' directory. To get the gifsever binary, compile the file 'gifserver.c'. To comlipe type 

	$ gcc gifserver.c -o gifserver -pthread

	You will get the binary named 'gifserver'. Run that!!

	To add users to the ginterface compile the file 'addUsers.c' (gcc addUsers.c -o addUsers). When you run that binary you will get four options, add, display, delete and exit. Go for the option you want and you will be prompted with messages for all that you do. 


gifclient
------------
	Change into the directory 'gifclient'. Type 'make' to compile the client.

	$ make

	You get lot of messages running upwards. After compiling go into the directory 'src' inside 'gifclient' directory, you will see the binary file named 'gifclient'. Run that to see the 'gifclient' GUI interface. Make sure that 'gifserver' is already running, so that your requests are accepted. 


If you need any further help or if you want to inform about any bug mail me to ginterface@rediffmail.com. Your suggestions are welcome.

--- Arun Ponniah S.


