Dear mIRC User, It is with great joy that I announce a new mIRC version. mIRC's new version 5.9 has been released thursday, april 26th, 2001. You get this message because you have subscribed to the mIRC Release mailing list. The new mIRC is available from http://www.mirc.com/ and from all fast mirrors all over the world. We also give a few download addresses below. * How to upgrade? As you know mIRC is distributed in self-extracting cabinets that help you to install mIRC on your PC. Simply download the cabinet of your choice and run the installer. Follow the instructions the installer program gives to you. When upgrading all your old settings and scripts will stay as they were, if you want that. Read the questions the installer program asks with care and nothing can go wrong. You will be chatting with the new mIRC in no time. If you get stuck or if you want to find out more about a certain feature, just click on a Help button or browse the Help file and you should find lots of hints to help you out. * Where to download? For the latest download addresses just go to the mIRC website. As a special service to you we included some links below where mIRC is available already; - 32 bit mIRC, for Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME and NT. (mirc59t.exe) Thailand http://www.karnt.com/mirc/mirc59t.exe Nebraska http://mirc.virtualimpressions.com/mirc59t.exe The Netherlands http://mirc.trueserver.nl/mirc59t.exe Missouri http://mirc.ircadmin.net/mirc59t.exe Turkey http://www.maxshell.net/mirc/mirc59t.exe Illinois http://mirc.chitaz.net/mirc59t.exe - 16 bit mIRC, for Windows 3.x. (mirc59s.exe) Thailand http://www.karnt.com/mirc/mirc59s.exe Nebraska http://mirc.virtualimpressions.com/mirc59s.exe The Netherlands http://mirc.trueserver.nl/mirc59s.exe Missouri http://mirc.ircadmin.net/mirc59s.exe Turkey http://www.maxshell.net/mirc/mirc59s.exe Illinois http://mirc.chitaz.net/mirc59s.exe On the mIRC websites also the new mIRC FAQ version 47 (mfaq47hp.zip) is available. The FAQ answers a lot of questions regarding mIRC, IRC, DCC and the like. It also includes a tutorial on Aliases, Popups and on 'programming' the Tools/Remote section... As you know mIRC is shareware. It can be downloaded freely and evaluated for 30 days. Assuming you find that you enjoy using mIRC, it would be great if you registered your copy. We offer a one time registration, which works with all future versions of mIRC. You will never need to register again. It licenses you to use your copy of mIRC and helps to support our continued work on mIRC. * Improvements and new features: As usual the new MIRC offers heaps of changes and improvements. Lots of little and larger changes to smoothen your IRC experience. In fact, this version has far too many improvements, new features and functions to mention here in detail. The complete list is included with mIRC and available on the web. - Something you should really take a look at is the new and improved Address Book. It still offers an easy interface to addresses and related info of other IRC users but now also includes your notify list, Op, Voice, Ignore and Protect lists and a new feature to colour all nicknames that match a certain format. You wanted all ops blue? your friends green? target and enemy red? You got it! - A smart "Keep channels open" option has been added to the IRC/Options/ dialog. It keeps channel windows open after you're kicked so you can read the last part of a conversation. - Built-in ctcp flood protection for ctcp version, ping, finger, and time has been added. It will ignore (groups) of users for up to 10 seconds. - In the display section you can now enable transparency support for desktop windows under Win 2000. - The dcc send/get windows interface has been redesigned. You can now easier open folders and resend files straight from the dcc send dialog. Also a small error in the DCC Send/Get cps calculation was fixed and the maximum bandwidth use by outgoing DCC's is better limited now. All you mIRC scripters will love this version for its load of new features. You know by now that you have to dig through the help file and versions.txt to get hold of the best among them? Don't forget that ;-) You should note that several Strings and Identifiers have been changed! Most of them have more options and parameters or are changed to fit better to the standard. No worries; most old formats are still supported but you -should- update your scripts to prevent problems in the future! - We think most of you will be happy with the simple things like $input(), - $read() instead of $read, and $style() for popups. Also $eval() is nice, - and please note the parser change for [brackets]'s! - The script editor editbox can now handle 64k of text in the 32bit mIRC. Things might get a little tricky when you try the new support for regular expressions (regex), COM objects and SendMessage() to communicate with mIRC. This really is something for the hefty scripter... I'm sure you will have a lot of fun with this new mIRC! Over hundred functions, features, variables and identifiers are improved or added. Have fun exploring them! Please read the details of all changes in the versions.txt distributed with mIRC and available on the Web. Good luck and have fun with this new mIRC! Tjerk Vonck. __________________________________________________________________ * What is this and how can you unsubscribe from this mailing list? This mIRC Release mailing list is a low volume, low frequency announcement list. Typically you will get one message right after each mIRC release, only a few times a year. The last time was 4 months ago, in December. The list is not a discussion list, there will be only one poster - me, the listmaster of mIRC Co. Ltd. We will not use or abuse this list for other messages. It is very easy to get removed from this list. Just use the unsubscribe form found on the Mailing Lists page on the mIRC website http://www.mirc.com/mailing.html
