mIRC attempts to provide a user-friendly interface for use with the Internet Relay Chat network. The IRC network is a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk.
To IRC all you need to do is Connect to a server, Join a channel, and Chat!
mIRC will guide you through these 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.
Remember to visit the mIRC homepage at http://www.mirc.co.uk or one of it's mirror sites regularly for the latest information, as well as for links to other mIRC and IRC related information and websites.
To be able to use mIRC, you need several things:
1. Access to the internet.
2. Software for your machine that connects you to the internet. mIRC requires a WINSOCK.DLL, of which several versions are available. You will need this before you can use mIRC.
To use the 32-bit version you must be running a 32-bit operating system and a 32-bit winsock.
Once you have installed mIRC, you can run it, fill in the required setup information, and connect to the IRC server.
Good luck and have fun!
-Khaled
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mIRC® v5.41 Internet Relay Chat Client
Copyright © 1995-1998 Khaled Mardam-Bey and mIRC Co. Ltd.
All Rights Reserved.
mIRC is Shareware which means that you can use it legally for 30 days free of charge to evaluate it. If during, or at the end of, that period you decide that you would like to continue using it, 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 to find out how you can 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 commercial package, 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. please contact me for permission.
All commercial use interests in mIRC should be directed to khaled@mardam.demon.co.uk
The integrity of the original mIRC distribution file as distributed by Khaled Mardam-Bey is essential. mIRC and all of its related files must be distributed together in the original format. The mIRC distribution 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 Khaled Mardam-Bey be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or special damages, even if Khaled Mardam-Bey has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
