The file mirc614.exe (1290240) contains the 32 bit mIRC version 6.14
This version is made for Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, NT and above.
Released March 3rd, 2004.

Welcome to mIRC version 6.14

mIRC is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) program for Windows. Just like you need a
Web browser to surf over the Web you need an IRC client to chat on IRC. mIRC
is developed and copyrighted by Khaled Mardam-Bey and mIRC Co. Ltd. It is highly
configurable, perfectly stable and has lots of goodies hidden 'in there'. mIRC
offers multi-server suport, full color control, DCC File Send and Get capabilities,
aliases, a remote commands and events handler, scripting, place sensitive
programmable popup menu's, World Wide Web and sound support, and... a lot more.

But most important; to use mIRC you don't have to understand anything of the above.
Simply install mIRC and chat away!

mIRC is shareware. It can be downloaded freely and evaluated for 30 days. If you
find that you enjoy using mIRC, please try to register your copy. Your registration
licenses you to use your copy of mIRC and helps support our continued work on mIRC.

mIRC is distributed in a self-extracting cabinet that automatically installs mIRC
on your PC. You don't need any external programs to install and setup mIRC on your
PC, just follow the instructions. Once you have installed mIRC, you can run it, fill
in the required setup information, and connect to an IRC server. When you're upgrading
mIRC all your old settings and scripts will stay as they were. mIRC will guide you
through the initial stages and hopefully you'll be chatting in no time. If you get
stuck or want to find out more about a certain feature, just click on the Help button
in a window or browse the Help file and you should find lots of hints to help you out.

As you become more experienced you can also start configuring mIRC's features to suit
your own needs and tastes, features such as colours, fonts, function keys, aliases,
popup menus, scripts, sounds and many others....

Good luck and have fun on IRC!

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Internet Relay Chat.

For those of you new to IRC, it stands for Internet Relay Chat. The worldwide
IRC networks offer a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world
can meet and talk. Don't mix-up IRC with Instant Messenger services or the slow
Web chats you might have seen. IRC is specially designed for chatting and works
very fast.

IRC was originally written by Jarkko Oikarinen in 1988. Since starting in Finland,
it has spread to almost all countries around the world. IRC is a multi-user chat
system, where people meet on "channels" (rooms, virtual places, usually with a
certain topic of conversation) to talk in groups, or privately. There is no
restriction to the number of people that can participate in a given discussion, or
the number of channels that can be formed on IRC.

mIRC attempts to provide a user-friendly interface for use with the IRC networks.
As a user you run mIRC on your PC and you connect to a "server" in an IRC network.
All servers are interconnected and pass messages from user to user over the IRC
network. One server can be connected to several other servers and up to hundreds
of clients. You can join several channels at once and participate in private
discussions at the same time. The various parts of the IRC client mIRC have been
designed with the aim of simplifying and speeding up your IRC sessions.

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What is new in version 6.14?

With this new release we think to address the most important comments, requests and
remarks we received after the release of version 6.12. The new version fixes lots
of the small but nevertheless annoying buggies found in the previous version. Among
them the much discussed tooltip gpf bug and a daylight savings time offset bug.

While we tried to focus on fixing things, of course some new features and functions
have been added. Although some of these new things, like the SSL support, might have
to mature a bit over the next versions, we think it is fun to play with them already!
A few items I'd like to mention as useful changes:

- Lots of work has been done on the support of multi-byte character encodings and the
sjis-jis support. Khaled has added a "Multibyte editbox" option to the Messages
dialog, which makes mIRC use a richedit editbox in all mIRC Windows for entering text.
mIRC was using the standard Windows editbox before. The richedit editbox displays
complex scripts properly. The Sjis/Jis and Multibyte options are now automatically
enabled if mIRC detects a Multibyte version of Windows the first time mIRC is run.
Khaled also fixed various multi-byte display/mark/copy bugs and improved sjis-jis support.

- An option to 'reload' logs has been added to the /IRC/Logging/ dialog. It will make
mIRC load the tail of a logfile into your channel and chat windows. Seems to work fine.
However, various line attributes, such as color, are not (yet) saved in the log files,
so the reloaded log is displayed in the normal text color.

- Support for SSL has been added. You'll have to download some DLL's of OpenSSL 0.9.7c
separately from mIRC and place them in the mIRC folder for this to work. mIRC will load
the dll's automatically if it finds them, after which you can initiate a secure connection
to an SSL capable IRC server. SSL settings can be found in the Connect/Options dialog, and
are visible only when openssl dlls are loaded. Read more on http://www.mirc.co.uk/ssl.html.

- A Sort dialog has been added to the Window Menu. It allows you to specify the sort order
of Switchbar buttons and Window types. Buttons are always sorted into groups. With the
/View/Options/Display/ sort option turned off, Switchbar buttons are sorted according
to creation time within groups as opposed to alphabetical sorting.

- By popular request Query/Chat windows now remember their individual font settings. We also
- moved the port range options, which now applies to all connections, to a /Connect/Advanced/ dialog,
- added a /cnick -sN switch, sorts item into Nth position,
- made the switchbar to allow up to eight lines in height and displays scroll buttons when it is vertical,
- fixed a $com() dispatch pointers bug,
- added an :error goto point, by which script errors can be caught, and
- improved the find dialog in the script editor a lot.

As you see there are heaps of changes and improvements. Lots of little and larger changes
to smoothen your IRC experience. You'll have to dig through the help file in mIRC and the
whatsnew.txt on the website to learn about the complete list of changes and their impact.
Some are obvious, some need getting used to - please take your time to play with them and
see how it works. If you have questions, may we invite you to the Message Board on the
website? The board offers great help with everything related to mIRC!

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More information.

mIRC is supported by a set of Web pages. On these pages you'll find information
on new versions, new ideas, known bugs and solutions, and possibly all other
information you might need on IRC in general, and on mIRC. Besides the newest
mIRC also the new mIRC FAQ and IRC Intro file are available from these www pages.

http://www.mirc.com USA
http://www.mirc.co.uk United Kingdom
http://www.mirc.queen.it Italy
http://mirc.kems.net Kuwait
http://www.mirc.co.za South Africa
http://mirc.eon.net.au Australia
http://www.mirc.com.ar Argentina

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License Agreement

mIRC is shareware, which means that you can try it out freely for 30 days to evaluate it. If
during, or at the end of, the evaluation period you decide that you would like to continue
using mIRC, you must register your copy. Your single-user registration will license you to
continue using your copy of mIRC.

mIRC can be registered through the How To Register page on the mIRC website.

If you would like to distribute mIRC as part of a magazine, book, cd-rom, website, or any other
form of distribution, please email khaled@mirc.com for written authorization.

mIRC may only be distributed as the original distribution install file as distributed by mIRC
Co. Ltd. The mIRC distribution install file may not be distributed as a part of any package,
and may not have files added to it or removed from it, and none of its contents may be modified,
decompiled, or reverse engineered.

mIRC is provided AS IS without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but
not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
In no event shall mIRC Co. Ltd. be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect,
incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or special damages, even if mIRC Co. Ltd. has
been advised of the possibility of such damages.

mIRC is a registered trademark of mIRC Co. Ltd.
The mIRC Logo is a trademark of mIRC Co. Ltd.
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