Enemy Down

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk; you'll find the whole diversity of human interests, ideas, and issues here, and you'll be able to participate in group discussions on one of the many thousands of IRC channels, on hundreds of IRC networks, or just talk in private to family or friends, wherever they are in the world.

To use IRC you need a small program like mIRC, an IRC client for Windows, written by Khaled Mardam-Bey. mIRC is a friendly IRC client that is well equipped with options and tools. mIRC is shareware, which means that you can download mIRC and 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 (you dont have to do ).

Once you have downloaded mIRC, you are ready to install it. During the install procedure mIRC's files will be automatically extracted from the cabinet and all necessary steps for starting mIRC will be taken. If you're upgrading an older version of mIRC you will be able to keep all your old settings.

Now that mIRC is installed on your PC and the program group and mIRC icon are available in the program manager, this is what is required to set it up:

First make sure you have an active connection to Internet. Normally you just have to start up the modem connection to your Internet provider to do so. To anticipate any problems in the future always first start your modem and then mIRC.

Firstly, double click the icon (shortcut) to start up mIRC. mIRC will start and show the Options Dialog and require you to fill in some information:

In the mIRC Options dialog you see an options tree structure. You can expand a branch of the tree (a Category) by selecting an item (Connect, IRC, Sounds,...) and clicking on the little 'plus' sign. A list of sub-items will unfold. At first only the main 'Connect' menu item seen above, has to be filled in. Select this item and enter the following information in the fields;

Real Name: Your real name (ie, John Smith)
E-Mail: Your email address (ie, John@Smith.com)
Nick Name: A one to nine character alias to use on the chat system (ie, JSmith)
Alternate: If someone else is already using the Nick Name you you've chosen on IRC, you will be known by this alternate name instead. (ie, JohnS)

Note: There are some symbols you cant use in your name.

Now on the tree structure. Click connect > servers.

Find 'QuakeNet' in the IRC Network box, and click on IRC Server; QuakeNet - Random 'UK/US/DE/SE' Server then click on OK. mIRC is now set up and totally ready to use.

Using mIRC
Click on the File menu and select Connect to connect to IRC. Or select the lightning button in the Toolbar for the same effect, or use the large "Connect to Server" button mentioned above.

After a short wait (up to 20 seconds) you will see some meaningless blurb appear in the status window.

The last line will say something like "End of MOTD command".

It is possible it takes a while for the connection to establish. Or mIRC has to retry a few servers and/or networks. Don't worry, sit back and relax - in the end it will work!

You are on IRC now!! Congratulations.

The mIRC Channels Folder will pop up. It shows a selection of the most popular IRC Channels available all over the world. You might want to try some of them? You can double-click on any channel suggested in the list. Or you can select more channels and hit the Join button. To disable this box de-activate the 'Pop up favourites on connect'

Alternatively, to join the #enemydown.co.uk channel, type the
/join #enemydown.co.uk command in the single line box at the bottom of the Status window.
When you join a channel, a new window will appear on your screen.
The names on the right side column are those people who are currently joined in the channel.
The left hand window is where everyone's conversation takes place.
To say things to the people joined to the channel, just type your comments in the single row box at the bottom of the channel's window.
To leave a channel, just double click on the close box, which is located at the top-left hand corner of the channel name's window.

There are many more commands available on IRC, and we recommend you do some further reading in one of the widely available info files. These www pages offer an IRC Intro page in case you need more info on IRC, and the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) to help you solve any possible problem you might encounter now or in the future.

Key Commands
Every channel, or room, has one or more people in charge there. These people who are in charge are called channel operators, or ops. These ops can be recognized by the '@' prefix before their nick. For example, if I was a channel operator in a channel my nick would look like this in the channels user list: '@MuTe^'. Operators have the power to change modes, along with the ability to kick or ban other users from the channel. General internet communication etiquette applies in these situations, so follow it and there should be no problems.

Now I will mention a few key commands that IRC users will need to have a grasp of. First off, every message that begins with the prefix '/' is considered to be a mIRC command. Thus, the place from which the user types their IRC commands is the same place from which they type their chat messages. These are only the most useful commands.

/join #channel
Joins the channel
Example: /join #enemydown.co.uk

/part
This command leaves the channel
Since mIRC opens a new sub-window for every channel a user joins, closing the channel window will also have the same effect as issuing the part command.

/me message
This is an action command that will output into the channel what the user is doing.
Example: /me is playing CS at the moment
This would show up in the channel as: * MuTe^ is playing CS at the moment

/msg nick message
This command sends a private message to the user without opening a query window.
Example: /msg michieru You love whale!!
Typically, a user will want to have a chat with a person and not just send a single message so it is then necessary to open a query window.

/query nick message
This command opens a query window with a user for private chat.
Example: /query michieru
It is usually easier to just double-click a person

/whois nick
This command shows information about a specific user.
Example: /whois michieru
It is possible to do the same thing by right clicking on a user

/nick [New Nick]
This command changes the user

Authing
Before you can use our services Q and L you will need a Q account, here's how to get one:

Saying 'Hello' to Q

This will create a Q account with the name of the nick you are using at the moment.
You do this by typing the following command:

/msg Q HELLO me@yourmailprovider.com me@yourmailprovider.com

A generated password will be sent to the email address you supplied. You can verify that you have done this correctly by typing: /msg Q whois (eg. /msg Q whois John).

If you see a message back from Q that includes the line:
-Q(TheQBot@CServe.quakenet.org)- John is authed as John.
...then you know you have said 'hello' correctly.

Change your Q password

When you say 'hello' to Q, you will be assigned a default password. I strongly suggest that you change it and be safe by PMing yourself when doing so.

Change your password by using the following command:

/msg Q newpass

Q will acknowledge a successful password change by displaying:
-Q(TheQBot@CServe.quakenet.org)- OK, password changed.

You are now ready to use mIRC's services.

Perform
Bored of typing your channels you have been idling in everytime you start your IRC? there is a way!

Now on the tree structure. Click connect > options. There should be 4 boxes on the page, press the 'Perform' box.

Tick the 'Enable perform on connect' box and enter your; suth with the selected channels.

/msg Q@CServe.quakenet.org AUTH