Dear mIRC User, It is with great joy that I announce a new mIRC version. mIRC's new version 5.91 has been released friday, June 15th, 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. (mirc591t.exe) Holland ftp://ftp.eu.uu.net/pub/windows/mirc/mirc591t.exe Dalnet ftp://ftp.dal.net/dalnet/clients/mirc/mirc591t.exe Slovenia http://mirc.telemach.net/mirc591t.exe Pennsylvania http://www.elixor.net/download/mirc/mirc591t.exe South Afrika http://www.mirc.co.za/download/mirc591t.exe United Kingdom http://www.datatech-cs.com/downloads/mirc/mirc591t.exe - 16 bit mIRC, for Windows 3.x. (mirc591s.exe) Holland ftp://ftp.eu.uu.net/pub/windows/mirc/mirc591s.exe Dalnet ftp://ftp.dal.net/dalnet/clients/mirc/mirc591s.exe Slovenia http://mirc.telemach.net/mirc591s.exe Pennsylvania http://www.elixor.net/download/mirc/mirc591s.exe South Afrika http://www.mirc.co.za/download/mirc591s.exe United Kingdom http://www.datatech-cs.com/downloads/mirc/mirc591s.exe On the mIRC websites also the new mIRC FAQ version 48 (mfaq48hp.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. Although this version is merely a bugfix version, several functions and features have been added or improved. Among the bugs you might have noticed is one that messed up the merging of popup menu's. In this new mIRC complete menu's from different scripts will merge properly. Also fixed are bugs in $eval(), $var() and small thingies in the 16 bit mIRC. A problem with the /whois on query option not working in single message window is solved. Overall there aren't many things you'll notice but all together enough to make your upgrade worth the trouble. Scripters should note that $null has been completely removed as a value. This has some potential to break your scripts. When you use $null in a script, mIRC now converts it to an empty value, instead of the value "$null"! - The flood protection has been improved with options to take your own ctcp's and 'whois on query' settings into account. You can even make Op status related commands (like /kick) to bypass the anti-flood queue. - Since IRC networks don't provide a consistent method of telling an IRC client the name of the network it's connected to, mIRC now supports the numeric 005 NETWORK=name token. Hope that helps? - When you have the "keep channel open" option enabled, mIRC now clears the nicklist if a channel window is open but not joined. - A "Blink icons" option is added to the Display dialog. With this option the switchbar icons of channel/query windows will blink if there's a message/highlight or flash event. - Notify no longer triggers on a nick change if nick has only changed case. - A $+(n1,...,nN) identifier that combines parameters has been added. - The notify options to show address and time are re-added. - The Hash commands are extended to allow storage of binary variables. - The variable types dispatch and unknown are added to $com(). These allow you to pass dispatch/unknown pointers as parameters in a $com() call, or to retrieve dispatch/unknown pointers from a $com() call, by reference. - You can now pause and resume a timer with the /timer -pr switches. - mIRC now waits 30 seconds before a re-connect attempt if the server says that you were throttled for connecting too fast. 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. I'm sure you will have a lot of fun with this new mIRC! Tjerk Vonck. ________________________________________________________ * What is this mailing list and how can you unsubscribe? 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 2 months ago in April. 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
