The file mirc561s.exe contains the 16 bit mIRC version 5.61 This version is made for Windows 3.x. Released September 23rd, 1999. mirc561s.exe (891872) - 16 bit mIRC, for Windows 3.x. mirc561t.exe (948224) - 32 bit mIRC, for Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT. mfaq41hp.zip ( 98483) - The mIRC FAQ version 41 Welcome to mIRC version 5.61 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 developped 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 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. mIRC can act as an external Web browser helper application but it can work totally independent as well. And most important; to use mIRC you dont have to know 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 self-extracting cabinets that automatically will install mIRC on your PC. You dont need any external programs to install and setup mIRC on your PC, just follow the instructions. You first have to find out what mIRC issue you will be running. mIRC is available in a 16 bit issue (mirc561s.exe) and a 32 bit issue (mirc561t.exe). The 32 bit issue is meant for 32 bit Operating Systems like Windows95, Windows98 and Windows NT. If you are not sure what issue to use, try the 16 bit mIRC issue! That issue will always work. Download the cabinet of your choice and run the installer. 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 a 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 the Internet, IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. The IRC networks offer a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk. Dont mix-up IRC with 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? mIRC's new version 5.61 fixes most, if not all, of the small but nevertheless anoying buggies found in the previous version 5.6. mIRC's new version 5.61 has far too many improvements and new features and functions to mention here in detail. I'll point to some of the simple ones here - these are the ones you might encounter right away; - The lock feature, with which you can disable functions in mIRC and limit its use to certain channels, is improved and a small problem in the lock dialog password routine is fixed. You can for instance use this feature to allow kids access to trusted IRC channels only. Or to disable the /run and /dll commands. Also lock 'error' messages for items locked in the lock dialog are now more informative, eg. when trying to join a locked out channel, etc. - The support for IRCX servers has been improved. IRC is a constantly evolving medium and lots of changes to mIRC are made with every new version to keep in track with new IRC server code and network specific changes. Don't forget; we dont write or maintain the IRC Networks :) In this version we also improved the support for !#channels on IRCnet and listing channels on DALnet servers works a lot better now; the *wildcard* method mIRC was using before wasn't being recognized, so the entire channels list was being sent. - You can now roll/unroll windows if you hold down the shift key when right-clicking on the window titlebar. This is a fancy way to clear up your desktop in an instance. - Tooltips now pop up over incomplete switchbar button names. - You can now use the Control+Q key combination to cycle through all open Query windows. And cycled windows are automatically minimized when you cycle out of them. - You can now customize the time-stamp format to about anything that fits you. - A right-click popup menu is added to DCC Send/Get windows for extra functions. - The RAW event can now handle unknown NAMED events. You can use this to script with server events not yet defined internally in mIRC. - A $lock(item) identifier is added. It returns $true or $false if an item is locked, where item can be: send, get, chat, fserve, run, dll, or channel. For the channel item, you can also use $lock(channel,N) where N returns the Nth channel in the list, or you can specify a channel name instead of N. - You can now use the on INPUT in dcc chat/fserve windows to process your own typing. - The $chat, $fserv, $send and $get identifiers are extended to $chat(nick,N), $fserv(nick,N) etc for nicks with mutliple dcc sessions open. The old format is still supported. - You can now create tabs in custom dialogs. Please read the details of all changes in the versions.txt file distributed with mIRC and available on the Web. Note for scripters; Over the past versions more and more of the really old syntaxes in mIRC's scripting language are no longer supported. We can not drag these old buggers around for ever! But most of the scripts can be updated with simple and straight forward changes. Apart from the changes lots of new scripting possibilities are introduced. Using these additions in a complete rewrite of your script might make it a lot faster! Therefore, read the help file with care and enjoy our work :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- More information. mIRC is supported by a set of WWW 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.geocities.com/~mirc/ USA http://www.nip.nl/mirc/ The Netherlands http://www.mirc.queen.it/ Italy http://mirc.kems.net/ Kuwait http://www.mirc.com.ar/ Argentina http://www.conesul.com.br/mirc/ Brazil http://www.mirc.co.za/ South Africa http://mirc.eon.net.au/ Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- License Agreement mIRC® v5.61 Internet Relay Chat Client Copyright © 1995-1999 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. mIRC may be freely distributed subject to, but not limited to, the following terms: mIRC may not be sold or resold, distributed as a part of any package, commercial or otherwise, used in a commercial environment, used or distributed in support of a commercial service, or used or distributed to support any kind of profit-generating activity, even if it is being distributed freely. If you would like to distribute mIRC as part of a shareware distribution, magazine, internet book, CD ROM, etc. contact me for written permission. All commercial use interests in mIRC eg. site licensing, should be directed to 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------