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If you are adventurous and have mIRC installed and configured, click on the
following link now... Else read on.....
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Newer versions of mIRC (and some other chat programs) offer the possibility to
easily join chat channels and IRC networks directly from the World Wide Web.
Traditionally, you need to connect to an IRC server and use the /list command to
list all of the channels on the IRC network you are on. Then, you pick a channel
name you like and you join it. However, with the new mIRC, you can easily join
chats listed on Web pages by simply following the provided links. If you do not
have the latest version:
Download one of these programs (preferably to C:\Windows\Desktop\) and install (the exe's are self installing, just double click on the file):
Version 6.21 (NEW!):
 | mIRC621.exe (for Windows), |
| mfaq50hp.zip (Freq. Asked Questions) |
Or for the latest version and info:
| http://www.mIRC.com/ or |
| http://mIRC.stealth.net/ |
To enter a channel and/or server on IRC from a Web page, you need to have your
Web browser set up to use the mIRCLink helper application. This page will tell
you how to correctly set up this program with some of the most popular browsers.
The mIRCLink helper application is included for free in the mIRC package. If you
are sure that your browser is properly configured, click on the following link:
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If the above link doesn't work properly, select one of the links below:
Configuring NetScape
Configuring Internet Explorer
Configuring Other Browsers
Troubleshooting
mIRC supports all popular chat file systems, you just have to configure Netscape
to launch the mIRCLink helper application for the .chat and .chat files of the
GlobalChat type and the .nsc NetscapeChat files. First you have to start both
Netscape and mIRC. In Netscape go to the "Options" pull-down menu and select
"General Preferences". In the list of TABs at the top, select "Helpers". To be
safe, scroll through the list of File types looking for "application/x-chat" and
"application/x-nschat" in the leftmost column.
If you can find one or both of these lines, then your copy of Netscape has
already been set up to work with some chat application. This can be mIRC of
course but also NetscapeChat, Chatman or GlobalChat. In this case you might only
have to check if the "Launch the Application" option is set to launch the
mIRCLink helper for both lines, and you are done. For both lines, select the
"Browse" button and select the mlink.exe or mlink32.exe found in the mIRC
directory.
If no chat application was already configured to work with mIRC, you can easily
get mIRCLink to work. Select the "Create New Type" button and fill in:
| Mime Type : application |
| Mime SubType : x-chat |
| File Extension : chat, cht (to assure proper use of local files) |
| Action : Launch the application : c:\mIRCdirectory\mlink.exe or mlink32.exe |
Do the same for the:
| Mime Type : application |
| Mime SubType : x-nschat (see the difference?) |
| File Extension : nsc (to assure proper use of local files) |
| Action : Launch the application : c:\mIRCdirectory\mlink.exe or mlink32.exe |
Now that you have set Netscape to start the mIRCLink helper application with the
GlobalChat and NetscapeChat chat file types, you can click OK. You're done now,
go ahead and click the following link!
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Similar to Netscape, you have to set up MSIE to understand what to do with the
chat files that contain the mIRCLink info. First you have to start both mIRC and
MSIE. In MSIE, go to the "View" pull-down menu and select "Options" . In the
list of TABs at the top, select "File Types". To be safe, scroll through the
list of File types looking for "Chat Files".
If you find an item like this, then your copy of MSIE has already been set up to
work with some chat application. This can be mIRC of course but also
NetscapeChat, Chatman or GlobalChat. In this case, you just have to make sure
that the "File Type Details" are set to:
| Extension: .chat .cht Content Type: application/x-chat Open with: c:\path\mlink.exe or mlink32.exe |
| Extension: .nsc Content Type: application/x-nschat Open with: c:\path\mlink.exe or mlink32.exe |
If no chat application was already configured to work with mIRC, you can easily
get mIRCLink to work. Select the "Add" button and fill in:
| Description : Chat Files |
| Mime Type : application/x-chat |
| Suffixes : .chat .cht (to assure proper use of local files) |
| Encoding : Text |
| Helper Application : c:\mIRCdirectory\mlink.exe or mlink32.exe |
Do the same for the:
| Description : NetscapeChat Files |
| Mime Type : application/x-nschat (mind the difference) |
| File Extension : .nsc (to assure proper use of local files) |
| Encoding : Text |
| Action : Launch the application : c:\mIRCdirectory\mlink.exe or mlink32.exe |
Now that you have configured Internet Explorer to start the mIRCLink helper
application with the GlobalChat and NetscapeChat chat file types, you can click
OK. You're done now, go ahead and click the following link!
You could just click on an mIRCLink in one of the lists above. The first time
you click on an mIRCLink your browser will come with an error message like
"Unknown MIME type..." and ask you to configure a helper application or viewer.
Select the "Configure External Viewer" option and browse to the directory where
mIRC and the mIRCLink helper application are found. Select the mlink.exe or
mlink32.exe file and press OK. That should do the trick.
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Please note that not all Web browsers offer the
capability to launch helper applications.
The Netcom Netcruiser Web browser is known to not support this feature.
If the above mIRCLinks fail to work you can safely assume your WWW browser is
configured wrongly or not at all yet. If you, for instance, just get a page with
3-4 short lines of text, or some error message from your WWW browser, then you
just need (once only) to configure your copy of Netscape, Internet Explorer,
Mosaic or other browser to use the mIRCLinks helper application. In these cases,
the browser you use doesn't recognize the MIME type associated with the chat
files (correctly) and you just need to check your settings against the setup
info given above.
If the mIRCLinks start some other chat application instead of mIRC, you just
need to reconfigure the setup of helper applications in your WWW browser. Just
setting the associated helper application to be the mIRCLink program will help.
If all else fails, try our backup servers,
shockwave.ascends.net or extreme.ascends.net,
by clicking on the following links or get there the good old fashioned way by
following the directions on our mIRC page:
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