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+LuaIRC
+============
+
+IRC library for Lua.
+
+Dependencies
+-------------
+
+ * [LuaSocket](http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/)
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+Automatically generated documentation can be found in the doc/ directory.
+
+Documentation is generated by [LuaDoc](http://luadoc.luaforge.net/)