# Eggdrop 1.6.16rc1

**Category:** Eggdrop_Bot
**Original Author:** Unknown

## Description
Eggdrop is a versatile IRC bot designed for automated channel management, including joining channels, handling user interactions, and managing access levels.

## Key Features
- **Botnet Support**: Supports linking with other bots to form a network.
- **Channel Management**: Handles channel joins, partings, topic changes, and bans.
- **User Interaction**: Responds to various IRC commands and events.
- **Access Control**: Manages user permissions and access levels.
- **Flood Protection**: Includes flood protection mechanisms.

## File Analysis
- **bg.c** — Handles process backgrounding for thread management.
- **bg.h** — Header file for bg.c.
- **botcmd.c** — Handles commands from the botnet and userfile transfers.
- **botmsg.c** — Formats messages to be sent on the botnet and sends different messages based on versioned bots.
- **botnet.c** — Manages the botnet, including tracking connected bots and channel name associations.
- **chan.h** — Common header for channel-related functions.
- **chanprog.c** — Handles various channel programming tasks like maintaining server lists and timers.
- **cmds.c** — Handles commands from users via DCC.
- **cmdt.h** — Header file for built-in commands.
- **dcc.c** — Manages activity on DCC sockets, disconnects, and other related functions.
- **dccutil.c** — Provides utilities for sending formatted text over various connections.
- **dns.c** — Handles DNS resolve calls and events.
- **eggdrop.h** — Compile-time settings for Eggdrop.
- **flags.c** — Handles flag matching and conversion.
- **flags.h** — Header file for flags.c.
- **language.c** — Handles language support code.
- **main.c** — Core event handling, signal handling, command line arguments, context and assert debugging.
- **misc.c** — Handles miscellaneous functions like logging, queueing output, resync buffers, help system, and motd display.
- **modules.c** — Supports modules in Eggdrop.
- **net.c** — Manages all raw network I/O.
- **patch.h** — Header file for adding patches to Eggdrop's version string.
- **proto.h** — Prototypes for every function used outside its own module.
- **rfc1459.c** — Implements IRC protocol handling based on RFC 1459.
- **stat.h** — File attributes management.
- **tcl.c** — Handles Tcl commands and initialization.
- **tcldcc.c** — Tcl stubs for DCC commands.
- **tclegg.h** — Header file used by tcl.c and tclhash.c.
- **tclhash.c** — Handles bindings, triggers, and procedures lookups.
- **tclmisc.c** — Tcl stubs for other non-Tcl commands.
- **tcluser.c** — Tcl stubs for user-record-oriented commands.
- **userent.c** — User entry handling.
- **userrec.c** — Functions to find and change user records.
- **users.c** — Handles testing, enforcing ignores, adding/removing ignores, listing ignores, auto-linking bots, sending/receiving userfiles, and more.