mirc 6.01

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It is with great joy that I announce a new mIRC version. mIRC's new version 6.01 has been released sunday, February 10th, 2002. The new mIRC is available from this website, and from all fast mirrors all over the world.

With this new release we hope to address most, if not all, of the comments, requests and remarks we recieved after the release of version 6.0. We'd like to emphasize the new visual style dialog that allows you to set and change frame styles (borders, lines and bevels), switchbar buttons, and a new option to disable support for irc:// chat links.

* How to upgrade?

As you know mIRC is distributed in a self-extracting cabinet (mirc601.exe) that helps you to install mIRC on your PC. Simply download the cabinet 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. We also give some information on changed, improved and fixed features and functions below.

* Where to download?

The new mIRC is available from this website.

On the mIRC websites also the new mIRC FAQ version 50 (mfaq50hp.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. mIRC is no longer available in a 16 bit issue. The most recent 16 bit mIRC version is 5.91. It's installer is named mirc591s.exe. You can still download this older version from the mIRC website.

* Shareware

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. This licenses you to keep your copy of mIRC and helps to support our continued work on mIRC. We offer a one time registration, which works with all future versions of mIRC. You will never need to register again.

* Improvements and new features:

I already mentioned the new visual style dialog and the option to disable support for irc:// chat links. By default you have to confirm chat link requests btw.

Several more or less annoying bugs have been fixed; a socket bug which that very likely caused the crashes some of you have been reporting, a connection retry bug which may have resulted in wrong nicknames, channel prefixes and nick mode prefixes, etc. Other fixes are;
an /ignore -u bug with multi-server support,
the Agent support,
the IRCX support for MS servers,
the on NOSOUND event not triggering,
the notify list that got lost if you used command line parameters,
the password editbox,
dcc send/get windows not showing "transfer incomplete",
and lots of other things are improved or fine-tuned after user feedback.

May I remind how in version 6.0 multi-server support was added? With this feature mIRC allows you to connect to multiple servers at the same time. You'll notice the 'Multi-Server' button that provides a couple of new options supporting this new feature. If you hadn't upgraded to version 6.0 yet, this is the moment to get 6.01!

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!
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