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The file mirc60.exe (1171968) contains the 32 bit mIRC version 6.0
This version is made for Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP and NT.
Released February 3rd, 2002.

Welcome to mIRC version 6.0

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!

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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 6.0?

As usual the new MIRC offers heaps of changes and improvements. Lots of little 
and larger changes to smoothen your IRC experience. Since mIRC 6.0 is no longer 
available in a 16 bit issue all references to the old 32 and 16 bit distributions 
have been removed. Lots of 16bit-specific code has been removed from mIRC's routines. 
Lots of 16 bit related memory issues, problems, kludges and bugs are solved. All 
dialogs in mIRC should now use standard dialog fonts for the version of Windows you 
are using. When running XP, mIRC now uses your XP theme for dialogs, buttons, etc....

Some of the many many improvements, changes and fixes in this new mIRC are;
- The max cps fserve option now allows a dcc send to use up the full max cps if no 
  other dccs are using the bandwidth.
- You can now create a second editbox on channel windows, via the channel window 
  system menu, the right-click menu in the editbox, or the Alt+Q shortcut. 
- mIRC will no longer rejoin an open channel window if you disconnect and then 
  connect to a different network.
- Added WMA/OGG support to sounds dialog, /splay and /sound commands, and added 
  several new new identifiers to support it. (Note: these new identifiers replace 
  several old ones that are still supported -for now- but no longer documented.)
- Added 'Trusted Users' list to DCC Auto-get options dialog.
- Firewall support can now be enabled separately for server and dcc connections.
- When running under XP, mIRC now uses your XP theme for dialogs, buttons, etc.
- mIRC now processes incoming server messages rather strict, ignoring corrupted or 
  malicious lines, and treats ctcp messages that use an invalid format as plain text.
- Added "Queue own messages" option to flood dialog, applying to your PRIVMSG and NOTICE messages.
- The connect retry options (including a new retry delay option) in the 
  File/Options/Connect/Options dialog now have their own button.

Multi-Server support has been added. With this feature mIRC allows you to connect 
to multiple servers at the same time. To open an additional connection you can either:
  1) Enable the 'new server window' checkbox in the connect dialog, select a server, 
     and hit the 'connect to IRC Server' button,
  2) Hold down shift key when selecting a server from the right mouse-click popup menu 
     of the 'options' button in the toolbar (reread that ;),
  3) Use the new /server -m command.

You'll notice a new File/Options/Connect/Options/ 'Multi-Server' button that provides 
a couple of new options supporting this new feature. 

The new multi-server feature required major internal changes to mIRC's code and forced 
improvement of code in many areas which has undoubtfully resulted in an even more stable 
and robust mIRC! Working on this important new feature we focussed on keeping mIRC as it 
always has been; no-nonsense, robust, -working- :) We tried to keep the changes to the 
scripting language etc, as clean as possible. Upgrading should be fairly painless. 
Still a multitude of ID's, identifiers and commands has been changed and added to support 
the new parallel connections. Everything in mIRC now has an unique id number; all windows, 
server connections, dcc sends/get/chats, etc.... 

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 forums offer 
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.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

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