Hi Sarah:
The problem with Mirc and Pirch and other such programs is that if someone
tries to send you a private message with /msg, it comes up in another
window and you do not hear it spoken and consequently you ignore the
sender. With MS Chat, you hear a whisper box open and you are put in the
whisper box to reply; you can exit the whisper box with alt+F4 or ignore
the sender. Private messaging is one of the strong points of MS Chat. I
am not sure what you mean about someone not being able to communicate with
you unless they find you, but the messaging in MS Chat is quite good. Most
of the standard slash IRC commands are supported. This is set forth in the
help section under tips and tricks. However, for some strange reason,
Microsoft has chosen not to support the /dcc command, which is a
significant drawback. I have not tried Mirc with the JFW scripts, but I
doubt they solve the /msg and multi window problems of working with speech
in IRC. I liked using IRCII for Windows with JFW in Windows 95, but it
does not work on my new Windows 98 machine. If anyone has a better
solution for working with JFW in IRC, please let us all know.
Rich De Steno
At 02:18 PM 6/28/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I haven't been able to make it do DCC, and it won't even let you chat with
>someone who isn't in your channel unless they find you, as far as I can
>tell.
>someone mentioned MIRC. I wonder if it lets you use commands with slash,
>and if it has all the capabilities that IRC II has. I can't use my shell
>with my stupid modem right now, so I am looking for something more
>acceptable than Microsoft chat witch works perfectly with speech, but has no
>other redeaming qualities. I just thought that might be good since I have
>seen jaws scripts for MIRC so it should work fine.
>
>Sarah Whitlow
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Rich De Steno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 3:52 PM
>Subject: MS Chat
>
>
>> I have been playing around with Microsoft Chat. It seems that there is no
>> way to use the /dcc IRC command in this program. Is this correct?
>>
>> Rich De Steno
>>
>
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