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StarLink-IRC has been honored by receiving a couple of awards the last few days. Check them out at www.starlink-irc.org <http://www.starlink-irc.org/> and congrats to our webmaster Itsy ******************************* Thanks once again for the great color show put on by the color team in #mIRC on Feb 5th. We look forward to many many shows in the future! ******************************* Reminders If any channel owners change ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and/or change email addresses, please let someone in cservice know. That is the only way we can contact you if there are any problems with your channel. Subscribe to the mailing list at www.starlink-irc.org/slreg.html#MailingList <http://www.starlink-irc.org/slreg.html> (Amazing adds: We have the new Harold, Ky server, with its admins IronHawk and Rick_Man .. also we have java chat on LasVegas* as a replacement for Lexington* ******************************** Suggestions from the #Townhall meeting held Sunday night Feb. 13th, about how to make your channel popular:
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Not much in the follies this month. Trucks and gas pipes report all clear for the year so far.. the weekend brekky IS offering a special in #TownHall each Sat and Sun .. our very own Oyster Meringue Pie and Octopus Eye marmalade. We have lots left. Oh lordy do we have lots left .. Drop by .. open on weekends in #TownHall
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This information is sent by Dane, regarding
the new version of mIRC. Please contact him with any questions. mIRC 5.7 On February 2nd, there was again a new version of mIRC released, and once again lot of people upgrading found themselves having problems with scripts and popups that worked perfectly in the mirc 5.6+ versions. How come things can be working in an old version, suddenly fails to be working in a new version? This is because the author of mIRC Khaled, has a habit of changing already- implemented features, or taking out old features that have been replaced with new ones. Maybe you sit and wonder, why not just let the old features remain there - why not just make sure that features changed still understands the old format? I am sorry but I only have 1 answer : "I don't know". If you are going to upgrade from pre-5.60 version to 5.70 you will find that you will get lots of errors, lots of stuff failing. This is because the 5.6 version contained lots and very vital changes to the script language. I hope maybe this small article can be of help for those that would like to try fix the errors themself, so that older stuff that they like using will still work. Before you start out on the often timeconsuming work it can be to correct scripts and popups, try look to see if the things you are using are out in a new version, or have been fixed to work with the new version. This will in the end save you some time. In this article I will try cover the error-producing changes from version 5.60/5.61 - 5.70. Should you be in a position where you are changing from pre-5.60 to 6.70, then pay a visit to the help channels on StarLink-IRC, and have a chat with the people about what you have loaded, and maybe a chat about how you can upgrade without major frustrations. On StarLink-IRC you will find lots of helpful people. Now to the changes and how to try fix the errors :) --------------------------------------------------- "{" and "}" is not allowed in popup names in 5.70, you will get errors about invalid commands, and your popups will look messed. Solution : edit the popup list and look for popupnames containing those 2 characters, and change them to something else. Maybe you have a popup named @};-, rename eg to Rose or @);-, the actual popup will still look the same when used. $parms and $parm1 - $parmn is no longer supported by mIRC, instead change those to : $parms -> $1- $parm1 -> $1 $parm3 -> $3 etc etc. *1 is not anymore in mIRC, instead change to : *1 -> $1- *2 -> $2- etc etc If you have problems grabbing sound files from a friend using mIRC 5.7, or you find that you dont send on the !nick request, and you are using mIRC 5.7. Then there is now added a "problem" to mirc. It looks like the wav Khaled tried to implement support for long file names in the !nick grab methode caused that mirc looks at everything after the !nick as the filename. Many people uses a grab text after the filename like -> <Whobear> !Dane35 hehehe.wav grabbing with my grabber mirc !nick request listener thinks the file name is : hehehe.wav grabbing with my grabber, and wont sent. Therefor if you want the "grab comment" then make it on a new line", or you will have to get a script that will support long file names and a "grabber comment". The PPPlayer 7.0 will, when done, support this. New features in daily use. When copying in mIRC by dragging your mouse over the text, there is now an option that you can hold down the CTRL-key while doing it. This will make mIRC copy the control codes too, like color and bold codes. Added "max cps per user" option to Options/fserve dialog. Allows you to limit max cps used by a dcc send to a user in a Fileserver. This is also applied to /dcc sends initiated in a remote script. This way you can control that your bandwith is not completely used up by DCC sends. Added "hide ping? pong!" option to IRC dialog., did you ever get tired of seeing the green ping? pong! filling your status window, now you can ask mIRC to turn it off in the IRC dialog. Khaled added support for microsoft agent, and for speak regionising software, tho those things might be fun to play with for a couple of hours, I am not sure of the real value, but that is my oppinion. Beside the listed things there are lots of bug fixes, and added to the script language, if you are interrested in this kind of reading I suggest reading the version.txt, that comes with mIRC. I hope this will help in some of the frustration there is when upgrading your mIRC.
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