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+# clix - Command-line XMPP tool
+
+## Description
+Clix is a small utility to interact with an XMPP server. It can be 
+used to send messages, presence, and info queries to any XMPP address.
+
+## Example
+clix message --to=user@example.com "The kettle has now boiled"
+
+## Usage
+Syntax: clix COMMAND [OPTIONS] [...]
+
+Different commands accept different sets of options, but they all
+follow some general conventions. The command must be the first 
+parameter, followed by a series of flags or options. Global options
+include:
+
+  --account=default
+  	The account to use from the configuration file (default 
+  	is 'default')
+  
+  -v
+  --verbose
+  	Enables verbose logging of the XMPP connection
+
+When no command is specified, clix will print a list of the names
+and descriptions of all built-in commands.
+
+## Building and installing
+Building clix is (by no accident) quite simple. It depends on Verse,
+an XMPP client library for Lua. Verse in turn depends on several 
+libraries, all dependencies are listed here.
+
+  Verse 2.0+: http://matthewwild.co.uk/projects/verse
+  	At the time of writing Verse 2.x has not been released yet and
+  	is available only from: http://code.matthewwild.co.uk/verse/
+  
+  LuaExpat: http://www.keplerproject.org/luaexpat/
+  	Lua XML parser. Available in Debian as liblua5.1-expat0
+  	
+  LuaSocket: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~diego/professional/luasocket/
+  	Lua networking library. Available in Debian as liblua5.1-socket2
+  	
+Clix can be run directly from source if the above dependencies are
+installed. To make life easier it can be installed to standard directories,
+on most systems this means to copy clix.lua to /usr/bin/clix and the clix
+directory to /usr/lib/lua/5.1/clix (on some non-Debian systems the 5.1 
+directory isn't needed).
+
+Alternatively you can use Squish to compress all Clix's files into a single
+executable. If you have Squish installed then simply type 'squish' in 
+clix's source directory to generate the compacted 'clix.bin' file. Squish 
+can be found at http://matthewwild.co.uk/projects/squish .
+