* Todd Bruner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have started AMIRC and I really don't know what I am looking at! I > have looked at the FAQ, but they seem more problem oriented, than how > one might use IRC. http://www.irchelp.org/ is a useful resource for beginners. > I have experimented and clicked on the default servers listed, and one > works - Galaxy. What are the other ones listed? Are they old ones > that no longer are around? How does one find new ones? Websites, connecting to an existing server and using /map and /links to locate other servers connected to it.. nothing special :) > I have then been joined to a channel called AMIRC. Are there others? Yes. /list will, er, list them. > I resume the folks on that Channel are listed to the right. To > "talk" or chat to them I click lower right chat button. Nothing > happens. Maybe you have to highlight their names and then click chat? No, the Chat button is for initiating direct client connection (DCC) chat, that is, you connect directly to their client to talk to them, bypassing IRC completely. The long textbox along the bottom of the window is the main interface to IRC and AmIRC; to talk to the channel you're currently on, just type in what you want to say. Commands are directed to the client and make it perform some action - you type them in the same place and prefix them with /, so to join some other channel you type: /join #somechannel Other useful commands are /map (get a map of the servers on the network and their relationships to each other), /links (a more obscure version of /map), /part (leave the current channel, /leave also works), /quit (close AmIRC, /quit Bla provides 'Bla' as a quit message for others to see) and /query (open a window to talk to another user). > When someone places in their signature IRC followed by a number how > does that relate to AMIRC? Followed by a number? Sure you don't mean ICQ? :) > IRC - internet relay chat? Is this the same as AOL IM? and ATT's IM > here? No, instant messangers are for communicating to specific individuals on the network, usually using specific clients, where as IRC is an _open_ protocol for talking to groups of individuals seperated by channels. > If so can AMIRC communicate to those individuals. AmIRC cannot communicate to ICQ or AOL IM in the same way it cannot communicate with the web or Usenet. -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.aagh.net/ - Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. ___________________________________________________________________ AmIRC Mailing List - http://www.vapor.com/amirc/ AmIRC FAQ......: http://faq.vapor.com/amirc/ Listserver Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=HELP Unsubscribe....: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=UNSUBSCRIBE
