Where and How to DL mIRC

[John Osborne]

I hope this will help. I got this from James Sterret. Tacops Umpire

Download from: http:// www.mirc.co.uk/

Installation: should be a self-installing program (download it, double-click it, watch it go)

Initial startup: fill in the “Name”, “Email”, “Nickname”, and “Alternate” boxes. Do not worry about passwords and the like. Your nickname is the name IRC will display; the alternate is automatically used if somebody else has already taken your primary nickname.

To put in the server:

In the Options screen (click the second icon from the left, if it does not come up automatically), click “Add” and fill in:

Description: Red 6 TacOps server [or anything you prefer, only you will see this, no one else will]

Server: irc.netlink-irc.org [not optional, has to be there]

Port: 6667

Ignore Group and Password.

Then you can log in using the relevant button on the options screen or the small lighting bolt icon in the upper left.

After it logs in. mIRC should pop up with a channel window. [Third icon from the left brings it up also.]

All IRC channels begin with a #. Thus the TacOps channel is #tacops. Type #tacops as the “name of channel to join”. Hit “Add” if you want to save yourself typing it in the future, and then hit “join”.

You type text and hit enter; it heads out into the world. Text proceeded by a / will be treated as a command by IRC.

To join another channel from the TacOps channel, type “/join #channel name” (without the quotes); for example: /join #blufor-chat

[ September 21, 2002, 12:43 PM: Message edited by: Red 6 ]

[Treeburst155]

Thanks, Red 6! That's what I needed to know.

Treeburst155 out.