The file mirc60.exe (1171968) contains the 32 bit mIRC version 6.0 This version is made for Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP and NT. Released February 3rd, 2002. Welcome to mIRC version 6.0 mIRC is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) program for Windows. Just like you need a Web browser to surf over the Web you need an IRC client to chat on IRC. mIRC is developed and copyrighted by Khaled Mardam-Bey and mIRC Co. Ltd. It is highly configurable, perfectly stable and has lots of goodies hidden 'in there'. mIRC offers multi-server suport, full color control, DCC File Send and Get capabilities, aliases, a remote commands and events handler, scripting, place sensitive programmable popup menu's, World Wide Web and sound support, and... a lot more. But most important; to use mIRC you don't have to understand anything of the above. Simply install mIRC and chat away! mIRC is shareware. It can be downloaded freely and evaluated for 30 days. If you find that you enjoy using mIRC, please try to register your copy. Your registration licenses you to use your copy of mIRC and helps support our continued work on mIRC. mIRC is distributed in a self-extracting cabinet that automatically installs mIRC on your PC. You don't need any external programs to install and setup mIRC on your PC, just follow the instructions. Once you have installed mIRC, you can run it, fill in the required setup information, and connect to an IRC server. When you're upgrading mIRC all your old settings and scripts will stay as they were. mIRC will guide you through the initial stages and hopefully you'll be chatting in no time. If you get stuck or want to find out more about a certain feature, just click on the Help button in a window or browse the Help file and you should find lots of hints to help you out. As you become more experienced you can also start configuring mIRC's features to suit your own needs and tastes, features such as colours, fonts, function keys, aliases, popup menus, scripts, sounds and many others.... Good luck and have fun! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Relay Chat. For those of you new to IRC, it stands for Internet Relay Chat. The worldwide IRC networks offer a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk. Don't mix-up IRC with Instant Messenger services or the slow Web chats you might have seen. IRC is specially designed for chatting and works very fast. IRC was originally written by Jarkko Oikarinen in 1988. Since starting in Finland, it has spread to almost all countries around the world. IRC is a multi-user chat system, where people meet on "channels" (rooms, virtual places, usually with a certain topic of conversation) to talk in groups, or privately. There is no restriction to the number of people that can participate in a given discussion, or the number of channels that can be formed on IRC. mIRC attempts to provide a user-friendly interface for use with the IRC networks. As a user you run mIRC on your PC and you connect to a "server" in an IRC network. All servers are interconnected and pass messages from user to user over the IRC network. One server can be connected to several other servers and up to hundreds of clients. You can join several channels at once and participate in private discussions at the same time. The various parts of the IRC client mIRC have been designed with the aim of simplifying and speeding up your IRC sessions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in version 6.0? As usual the new MIRC offers heaps of changes and improvements. Lots of little and larger changes to smoothen your IRC experience. Since mIRC 6.0 is no longer available in a 16 bit issue all references to the old 32 and 16 bit distributions have been removed. Lots of 16bit-specific code has been removed from mIRC's routines. Lots of 16 bit related memory issues, problems, kludges and bugs are solved. All dialogs in mIRC should now use standard dialog fonts for the version of Windows you are using. When running XP, mIRC now uses your XP theme for dialogs, buttons, etc.... Some of the many many improvements, changes and fixes in this new mIRC are; - The max cps fserve option now allows a dcc send to use up the full max cps if no other dccs are using the bandwidth. - You can now create a second editbox on channel windows, via the channel window system menu, the right-click menu in the editbox, or the Alt+Q shortcut. - mIRC will no longer rejoin an open channel window if you disconnect and then connect to a different network. - Added WMA/OGG support to sounds dialog, /splay and /sound commands, and added several new new identifiers to support it. (Note: these new identifiers replace several old ones that are still supported -for now- but no longer documented.) - Added 'Trusted Users' list to DCC Auto-get options dialog. - Firewall support can now be enabled separately for server and dcc connections. - When running under XP, mIRC now uses your XP theme for dialogs, buttons, etc. - mIRC now processes incoming server messages rather strict, ignoring corrupted or malicious lines, and treats ctcp messages that use an invalid format as plain text. - Added "Queue own messages" option to flood dialog, applying to your PRIVMSG and NOTICE messages. - The connect retry options (including a new retry delay option) in the File/Options/Connect/Options dialog now have their own button. Multi-Server support has been added. With this feature mIRC allows you to connect to multiple servers at the same time. To open an additional connection you can either: 1) Enable the 'new server window' checkbox in the connect dialog, select a server, and hit the 'connect to IRC Server' button, 2) Hold down shift key when selecting a server from the right mouse-click popup menu of the 'options' button in the toolbar (reread that ;), 3) Use the new /server -m command. You'll notice a new File/Options/Connect/Options/ 'Multi-Server' button that provides a couple of new options supporting this new feature. The new multi-server feature required major internal changes to mIRC's code and forced improvement of code in many areas which has undoubtfully resulted in an even more stable and robust mIRC! Working on this important new feature we focussed on keeping mIRC as it always has been; no-nonsense, robust, -working- :) We tried to keep the changes to the scripting language etc, as clean as possible. Upgrading should be fairly painless. Still a multitude of ID's, identifiers and commands has been changed and added to support the new parallel connections. Everything in mIRC now has an unique id number; all windows, server connections, dcc sends/get/chats, etc.... You know by now that you have to dig through the help file and versions.txt to get hold of the complete list of changes and their impact? Don't forget that ;-) If you have questions, may we invite you to the Message Boards on mIRC's website? These discussion forums offer great help with everything related to mIRC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- More information. mIRC is supported by a set of Web pages. On these pages you'll find information on new versions, new ideas, known bugs and solutions, and possibly all other information you might need on IRC in general, and on mIRC. Besides the newest mIRC also the new mIRC FAQ and IRC Intro file are available from these www pages. http://www.mirc.com USA http://www.mirc.co.uk United Kingdom http://www.nip.nl/mirc The Netherlands http://www.mirc.queen.it Italy http://mirc.kems.net Kuwait http://www.mirc.co.za South Africa http://mirc.eon.net.au Australia http://www.mirc.com.ar Argentina ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- License Agreement mIRC® v6.0 Internet Relay Chat Client Copyright © 1995-2002 mIRC Co. Ltd. All Rights Reserved. mIRC is shareware, which means that you can use it freely for 30 days to evaluate it. If during, or at the end of, the evaluation period you decide that you would like to continue using mIRC, please register your copy. Your single-user registration will license you to use your copy of mIRC, will support work on future versions, new features, and bug fixes, and will provide you with technical support via email. Please see the How To Register section in the mIRC help file or on the mIRC website at http://www.mirc.com to find out how to register. If you would like to distribute mIRC as part of a shareware distribution, magazine, book, cd-rom, website, etc., or you are interested in using mIRC in a commercial setting, eg. site license for a company, please email khaled@mirc.com. mIRC may only be distributed in the original distribution install file as distributed by mIRC Co. Ltd. The mIRC distribution install file may not have files added to it or removed from it, and none of its contents may be modified, decompiled, or reverse engineered. mIRC is provided AS IS without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall mIRC Co. Ltd. be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or special damages, even if mIRC Co. Ltd. has been advised of the possibility of such damages. mIRC is a registered trademark of mIRC Co. Ltd. The mIRC Logo is a trademark of mIRC Co. Ltd. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------