hi holly, where can I download MIRC from? is it free?
----- Original Message -----
From: Holly Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: MS Chat
> hello, I used ms chat for a long time but I stopped in favor of using
> mirc with ronolog... it does a very good job, but you must have a
hardware
> synth for it to work because it uses your windows sound card. Hope this
> helps.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rich De Steno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Sarah Whitlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 6:26 PM
> Subject: Re: MS Chat
>
>
> > 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
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >----- 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
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > -
> > Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net
>
> -
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>
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