The file mirc62.exe (1367553 bytes) contains the 32 bit mIRC version 6.21
This version is made for Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, NT and above.
Released November 23rd, 2006.

Welcome to mIRC version 6.21

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 6.21?

As always this new version of mIRC addresses many of the issues reported since
the last release. A lot of time was spent tweaking features and fixing bugs.
We worked on the installer, logfile handling, script error handling, as well as a handful
of other things. Only a few new features and functions have been added, making this
mainly a bugfix release.

The mIRC installer has improved a lot! The installer now offers several pre-defined
modes that allow you to choose between an Upgrade, Full or Custom install. It
ensures that backups of old files are successful, reports error and aborts the
installation if it failed for some reason.

The IRC Servers dialog now uses a treeview to display the servers list. In response
to this change the format of the servers.ini file has changed to accomodate for a
larger amount of servers. The DNS routines have changed so that on connect the
retrieved pool of IP addresses is randomised to spread the load across connections.

Preparing for a fully Vista (the new Windows) compliant version of mIRC several
changes have been made. These incluse minor cosmetic issues, icons, a new
help file in .chm format, etc. Also a command line option has been created that
makes mIRC avoid all use of the registry. If this switch is used, mIRC stores
registry information in the mirc.ini file in a [user] section, and does not modify
registry to support irc:// links etc. This comes handy when you want to run mIRC
from a memory stick or similar device.

A lot of changes have been made to the way mIRC names and stores logfiles. This
is mainly done to prevent file corruption and loss of data when you open multiple
server connections. mIRC tries to name and rename logfiles as smart as possible.
Also, when settings are changed in the logging dialog, the logging state of windows
and any open log filenames are now immediately updated to reflect the new settings.
In previous versions new settings were only applied when a new window was created.

We hope to have smashed the confusing 'flash' and 'beep' options by adding a
"Default" menu item to System Menu Flash/Beep items, allowing channel/query/chat
windows to use the default settings as set in the Options/Sounds dialog. And disabling
sounds in the Sounds dialog now does actually disable -all- sounds, even those using
/splay or /beep. ;-)

For experienced users and scripting enthousiasts this new version has heaps of fixes,
changes and other little thingies to play with. Some of the more useful changes for
scripters are: an extension to the /toolbar command that allows you to customize your
toolbar, it now has a new switch that makes mIRC remember your current toolbar settings
and reload them automatically the next time you run mIRC; the /window -h behaviour has
been fixed so that you can hide Status windows from the switchbar; the on WAVEEND
event now triggers as it should; Regular expression support has been improved and
resolves gpf and speed issues in the previous version; script $error handling should
work better now; and /drawrot is now much faster. We encourage you to explore the
versions.txt file for all changes. Some changes are obvious, some need getting used
to - please take your time to play with them and see how they work.

In total there have been over 80 changes in this version and although most of them
are bug fixes or small tweaks, we hope that they result in a more useful and stable
mIRC for you.

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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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