The file mirc617.exe (1351680 bytes) contains the 32 bit mIRC version 6.17 This version is made for Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, NT and above. Released February 17th, 2006. Welcome to mIRC version 6.17 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 6.17? Khaled added support for displaying UTF-8 text as unicode to mIRC. This works in status, channel, query, and other windows, and in nickname listboxes, window titlebars, switchbar, and tooltips. The display of UTF-8 can be enabled by default for all windows in the Options/IRC/Messages dialog, or individually for any window you like via the Fonts dialog. Use the /font command to open the Fonts dialog. Make sure you select a font that contains the characters or script (hebrew, arabic, greek, cyrillic,...) you want to see! The Fonts dialog also has an "Encode" option that encodes outgoing text in UTF-8 based on the script/codepage selected for that window. The Encode feature is selective, ie. it only encodes the parts of an outgoing message that are not already in UTF-8 format. It also takes into account if the IRC server is fully UTF-8 enabled or not. Various other changes: - mIRC now has a 'check for timed out connections' option in connect/options dialog. When this is set mIRC pings the server every so often if it hasn't heard form the server for a while to test your connection. - Support for initiating passive dcc send/chat connections has been added. - Changing the default font for a window type now affects all open windows of the same type immediately. - Most file dialogs are now resizable. - You can disable the $decode identifier (and various other "dangerous" commands) in the Lock options dialog. (The $decode is of course disabled by default.) - Lots of SSL things have improved and mIRC now also supports SSL connections for sockets This new version has extended support for MP3 id3v2 tags, better invite and except lists, and heaps of other little thingies and identifiers like $findfilen/$finddirn, $qt(text)/$noqt(text), $locked and $mouse.key improvements. Of course also some UTF-8 related idfentifiers like $utfencode(), $utfdecode() and $isutf() 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://www.mirc.co.za South Africa http://mirc.eon.net.au Australia http://www.mirc.com.ar Argentina ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- License Agreement mIRC® v6.16 Internet Relay Chat Client Copyright © 1995-2004 mIRC Co. Ltd. All Rights Reserved. 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. 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