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Beginners guide to
Downloading from mIRC
Here is a step-by-step tutorial of how to
download ALMOST anything off of mirc. If you don't have mIRC and would
like to use it you can download it at http://www.mirc.com
1. GET CONNECTED
Now you should have a box that is displayed,
choose IRC Servers, then choose DalNet (Some people prefer others IRC Servers
but I believe the most popular is DalNet . Then on the box below choose
the location that is closest to you. Then below that enter your full name,
email, nickname and an alternative nickname. Then click the Connect to IRC
Server button.
Then Once Connected you should receive a message that looks similar to this:
2.
FINDING CHANNELS
Then using mIRC's toolbar click the
icon that looks like a world with a # sign over it 
After that you should have a
dialog displayed:
Under Match text type what your searching for (ex. movies, appz, etc)
Then Click the button Get List!
Now once you clicked Get List!,
depending on your description that you typed in you should recieve a lot of
channel names popup. For example I typed in movies and received over 200
channels.
Now pick a channel you would like to connect to, and double click it.
3.
Downloading Files
Now here is where it may get a little tricky,
but once you get the hang of it its not so bad. :)
Once you get into your channel you may want to see what is available for
download. And there are ways of searching other people's files by typing
@find program name here or if that doesn't work an alternative method
is
@locator name of of program here but not all servers support this and not all of
them want you to do this either. So make sure you read the rules if they
have some.
OK, now you are connected to a channel and want to know how to download the
files your looking for. You will need to type in
!list (please note as not all channels support this either so please read the
rules before performing this)
Once you type !list something similar to the picture below should show:
Once shown you will now want to
choose which file server you would like to connect to.
To do this you will need to type in other people's fserve's triggers. For
example, near the bottom
pyscho_burgger's fserver displays the triggers: !random_digimon & !all_my_anime &
!my_movies
Each trigger on his fserver is kind of a description of what is on each one,
granted not all triggers are descriptions of what they say, but usually they
are.
Then type in their channel !TheTriggername here
then you should get a dialog displayed like this:
Click Chat!
Now you should be in that
person's fserve and get something like this:
Now your gonna have to know a few commands here. If you ever get confused
you can usually
type help in the fserver and get the help you need
Now then type dir to display the directories contents
then click cd directory name to change into a different directory
Then to get that file type get nameoffile
Please note that you will not get your file immediately you will probably have
to wait quite a few queues till you get your file, to see how many queues there
are type queues
and to see how many sends are in progress type sends
Also note you will not be able to stay on a person fserver forever so if idle
for a few minutes you
will probably see a message that says: Closing Idle connection in 30 seconds...
if you don't respond at all within 30 seconds your session will be closed
4.
The Finishing Touches
As your file queues, you will want to leave mIRC on for the time being in which
case you will need to specify some DCC options.
To do this go to DCC >> options
Under On Send request click Auto-get file
and under auto-get and file exists its a good idea to put it on overwrite
this is just my preference however because i have resumed files that were
supposedly the same but became corrupt when full downloaded. Then
Click OK.
Well I hope I got your feet wet
to downloading off mIRC...ENJOY!