IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk; you'll find the whole diversity of human interests, ideas, and issues here, and you'll be able to participate in group discussions on one of the many thousands of IRC channels, on hundreds of IRC networks, or just talk in private to family or friends, wherever they are in the world.
To use IRC you need a small application like mIRC, an IRC client for Windows that was written by Khaled Mardam-Bey. mIRC is a friendly IRC client that is well equipped with options and tools.
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. As a user you run a "client" program like mIRC which connects 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.
· UTF-8 support with font linking.
· A powerful dynamic /help command.
· Netscape, Mosaic and MS Internet Explorer support .... surf the www waves !!
· An 'off you go' Toolbar.... and even Tooltips !
· A very handy Switchbar.
· A user programmable menu bar.
· A simple and smart CTCP commands and Events handler.
· Support for wav and midi sound files.
· Colored text to ease reading.
· Simple, fully configurable aliases.
· Configurable popup menus.
· Full DCC Send/Get/Chat support including passive DCC.
· Full configurable fonts and colors and support of bold, underline and reverse text.
· Built in Ident and Finger server.
· A simple but powerful and safe built-in File server.
· Programmable Function keys.
Версия: 6.21
· Fixed $timer().secs bug when used with /timer HH:MM.
· Fixed right-click on disabled toolbar button popping up menu.
· Fixed treebar and toolbar using same key accelerator in the view menu.
· Changed wording in help file for /windows -D.
· Changed /winhelp to allow help system to search for help file if it's not found in the mIRC folder.
· Fixed /toolbar -z3 not loading actual icon size from an .ico file.
· Fixed pressing spacebar in channel nicklist not popping up correct menu.
· Fixed bug with popup menus displayed using spacebar in notify/url listboxes.
· Fixed passive dcc send bug rejecting files in dcc ignore list.
· Fixed /window -h not being able to hide status window switchbar buttons.
· Fixed various tabbed text display bugs in @window text/listbox.
· Fixed scripts reacting to superfuous windows mouse move messages.
· Fixed display bug in reversed tabbed text in listbox @windows.
· Fixed dcc get window not being auto-closed on time-out in some situations.
· Improved /drawrot, now faster and supports float values.
· Changed the way mIRC displays popup menus so that it triggers the WM_INITMENUPOPUP for plugin developers.
· The LOADINFO structure now returns a minor version value that is right-padded with zeros, eg. "6 20".
· Fixed /drawpic parameter parsing bug.
· Fixed windows taking focus when mIRC is not the active application.
· Fixed $regsubex() bug with
parameter and various other characters.
· Added $regsubex() A parameter, non-spaced version of a.
· Fixed issue with $lactive not always returning a value.
· Fixed horizontal scrollbar bug in tabbed listbox @windows.
· Optimized display speed of text in windows and listboxes.
· Improved /window -b speed.
· Improved $network return value when connected/disconnected when on networks that use different network names in numerics 001/005.
· Fixed $dialog().focus not working correctly with comboboxes.
· Added on HOTLINK support for $() and %var in matchtext.
· When drag-dropping files on listboxes the listbox item under the mouse is now highlighted.
· Fixed query windows in treebar/switchbar not being re-sorted on a nickname change.
· Added Minimize/Close All menu items to treebar folder menus.
· Fixed script editor bug deleting very long lines instead of truncating them.
· Fixed /window -c gpf bug when several status windows are open and the first status window is closed.
· Fixed $window().state bug.
· Added $window().sbstate/tbstate, return switchbar/treebar button state for a window.
· Updated library to PCRE v6.7, fixes various bugs.
· Updated support files to openssl v0.9.8b.
· Fixed on WAVEEVEND event not being triggered correctly.
· Fixed switchbar fill display bug.
· Fixed $didwm() bug not handling blank lines in editboxes.
· Fixed DCC Get behaviour if download folder does not exist.
· Fixed logging bug where logfiles were being lost if "make folder" was enabled and the same status window was used to connect to different networks.
· Fixed $eval() parsing bug when passed more than two parameters.
· Fixed nested $regsubex() gpf bug.
· Extended commandline -r and -i parameters to accept non-full paths.
· IRC Servers dialog now uses a treeview to display the servers list.
· Fixed $inellipse() bug.
· Fixed kill event handling bug.
· Fixed $regml() bug.
· Fixed log filenames handling bug.