The file mirc591s.exe (1070080) contains the 16 bit mIRC version 5.91 This version is made for Windows 3.1x and Windows for Workgroups 3.1x. Released June 15th, 2001. Welcome to mIRC version 5.91 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 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 don't 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 don't 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 (mirc591s.exe) and a 32 bit issue (mirc6xx.exe). The 32 bit issue is meant for 32 bit Operating Systems like Windows 95, Windows 98, windows 2000, ME, XP and Windows NT. There is hardly a reason to use the 16 bit mIRC. The 16 bit mIRC is no longer updated. 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. Don't 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 in version 5.91? As usual the new MIRC offers heaps of changes and improvements. Lots of little and larger changes to smoothen your IRC experience. Although this version is merely a bugfix version, several functions and features have been added or improved. Among the bugs you might have noticed in the previous version is one that messed up the merging of popup menu's. In this new mIRC complete menu's from different scripts will merge properly. Also fixed are bugs in $eval(), $var() and small thingies in the 16 bit mIRC. A problem with the /whois on query option not working in single message window is solved. At first there aren't many things you'll notice but all together enough to make your upgrade worth the trouble. Scripters should note that $null has been completely removed as a value. This has some potential to break your scripts. When you use $null in a script, mIRC now converts it to an empty value, instead of the value "$null"! - The flood protection has been improved with options to take your own ctcp's and 'whois on query' settings into account. You can even make Op status related commands (like /kick) to bypass the anti-flood queue. - Since IRC networks don't provide a consistent method of telling an IRC client the name of the network it's connected to, mIRC now supports the numeric 005 NETWORK=name token. Hope that helps? - When you have the "keep channel open" option enabled, mIRC now clears the nicklist if a channel window is open but not joined. - A "Blink icons" option is added to the Display dialog. With this option the switchbar icons of channel/query windows will blink if there's a message/highlight or flash event. - Notify no longer triggers on a nick change if nick has only changed case. - A $+(n1,...,nN) identifier that combines parameters has been added. - The notify options to show address and time are re-added. - The Hash commands are extended to allow storage of binary variables. - The variable types dispatch and unknown are added to $com(). These allow you to pass dispatch/unknown pointers as parameters in a $com() call, or to retrieve dispatch/unknown pointers from a $com() call, by reference. - You can now pause and resume a timer with the /timer -pr switches. - mIRC now waits 30 seconds before a re-connect attempt if the server says that you were throttled for connecting too fast. 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 phorums offers great help with everything related to mIRC! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.co.za South Africa http://mirc.eon.net.au Australia http://www.mirc.com.ar Argentina ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- License Agreement mIRC� v5.91 Internet Relay Chat Client Copyright � 1995-2001 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 Khaled at khaled@mirc.com 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------