Gaim Assistant is a plugin to Gaim that will allow you to forward messages to 
a different screen name should you become away.  It's quite handy for those 
of you out there that use AIM over mobile devices as well as at home.  It has 
a few options to configure who it will forward for and if they can see the 
destination screen name or not.  

WINDOWS USERS:
There are some VERY good instructions on Gaim's website on how to build
Gaim for windows.  Here's the link;

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/win32/build.php

These are the steps I used to build the binary of Gaim Assistant
myself.  The DLL that is available for download, was built on a
windows 2k system.  I'm not sure, but I think it should run ok on 
other windows systems of similar make up.  

But to build Gaim Assistant for windows by yourself, follow the
directions on the above link to build a source tree of Gaim.
Then copy the Gaim Assistant source tree into plugins directory in the
Gaim source tree.  From there, you can cd into the gaim-assistant
source tree in the Gaim plugins directory and run:

# make -f Makefile.mingw

This will build the gaim-assistant.dll file.  This is
the Gaim Assistant plugin and all you have to do is copy
that file into the plugins directory inside of where
you installed Gaim. (usually C:\Program Files\Gaim\plugins)


IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!
The configure script will not allow you to build this plugin for GAIM 
older than 0.82. However, this saftey check is only available in Unix/Linux
systems. Windows has no check. Either way, you will need to upgrade.


MAKING and INSTALLING:

See the INSTALL file.


Any comments or suggestions are welcome.  Please email
gaim_assistant@project-lace.org


