The file mirc62.exe (1121693 bytes) contains the 32 bit mIRC version 6.2
This version is made for Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, NT and above.
Released juli 28th, 2006.

Welcome to mIRC version 6.2

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 on IRC!

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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.

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What is New in version 6.2?

mIRC's default toolbar is now customizable through a /toolbar command. You can
add, move and delete buttons, add your own icons, and of course, attach your own
commands to them. By popular demand also a treebar has been added. This lists
network connections with channels, queries and other open windows, much like the
switchbar. It behaves like the switchbar in many ways as well. You can expand and
collapse trees, just like you would expect. Right-clicking on an item pops up the
usual menu for that window. Right-clicking in an empty area of the treebar pops up a
menu with various display options.
The treebar width can be set by dragging the border with the mouse, and jsut as with
virtually all other windows the background and text colors can be set in the colors
dialog. Just like the toolbar the treebar can be repositioned to the top/bottom/left/right
of the main mIRC window!

In the previous version UTF-8 support was added. In this version several UTF-8
related bugs are fixed, including bugs with text wrapping and copy/pasting from
UTF-8 "display" or "encode" enabled windows, and bugs relating to the order in
which SJIS/JIS and UTF-8 encodings are applied. Much more important is that
UTF-8 support has been greatly enhanced in this version of mIRC to allow people
all over the world to chat in their own languages, with their own fonts, with a lot less
hassle then ever before. To do so support for font substitution/font linking has been
added. This allows mIRC to display all characters needed, regardless of the font
you are using, assuming you have the required fonts on your system, somewhere.
mIRC will try to match font sizes etc. To speed up the process Khaled has
implemented his own caching routines to enable fast font/character referencing.

Various other changes include:
- better support of XP and classic themes,
- faster re-wrapping of text,
- various $regsubex() and $regsub() parsing bugs, a flood protection bug,
some agent speech bug, and a bug with the find dialog in desktop windows are fixed,
- and mIRC now stores servers that were connected to successfully to prioritize
future server connection attempts, ...and a lot more.

For experienced users and scripting enthousiasts this new version has heaps of
changes and other new thingies to play with. We encourage you to explore the
new or improved identifiers, and the new events that have been added.

Some changes are obvious, some need getting used to - please take your time to play with
them and see how they work. May we invite you to the Message Board on the website with
all questions you might have? The board offers great help with everything related to mIRC!

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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.mirc.queen.it Italy
http://mirc.kems.net Kuwait
http://mirc.eon.net.au Australia
http://www.mirc.com.ar Argentina

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License Agreement

mIRC is shareware, which means that you can try it out 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, you must register your copy. Your single-user
registration will license you to continue using your copy of mIRC.

mIRC can be registered through the How To Register page on the mIRC website.

If you would like to distribute mIRC as part of a magazine, book, cd-rom, website,
or any other form of distribution, please email khaled@mirc.com for written authorization.

mIRC may only be distributed as the original distribution install file as distributed
by mIRC Co. Ltd. The mIRC distribution install file may not be distributed as a part
of any package, and 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.
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