07/05/2021 - mIRC v7.65

Changes:
1.Added flash option to ignore dialog options.
2.Reverted change to nick idle time so that it is updated per second
  once again.
3.Updated some of the winsock error messages in resources to use more
  up-to-date descriptions.
4.Fixed regex global matching bug with UTF-8 characters.
5.The styles dialog has been removed. The channel nicklist sizing
  bar now uses a standard width. The editbox and nicklist borders now
  use standard Windows colors. Windows no longer use an internal frame.
6.Fixed tray tips Control+O display bug.
7.Updated OpenSSL library to v1.1.1k.
8.Updated TagLib library to v1.12.
9.Added Windows 10 Aero theme support to MDI windows.
10.Changed the aliases list menu to use shorter, combined a-z menus,
   with separators, and any left over items in a ? submenu.
11.Fixed URLs List SendTo menu item being disabled.
12.Fixed MDI tile feature not fitting the right/bottom-most windows
   to the edge of the MDI area.
13.Changed scripts editor alias and popup menubars to use an "Index"
   menu name to list aliases/popups.
14.Added scripts editor "Index" menu to remote menu bar that lists all
   of the items defined in a script. It also includes partial lines
   for some items to give context.
15.Added home/end/page up/down key support to popup menus to allow
   for faster scrolling in long menus. These keys normally do nothing
   in menus, however they will now scroll multiple lines per key press
   and will stop once they reach the top/bottom of the menu.
16.Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.
17.Extended tab completion to allow using just a channel mode prefix
   to begin cycling through all matching users with that mode.
18.Extended tab completion to support %halfops. If an existing %var
   name is used, it is evaluated as in past versions, if you are not
   currently cycling through %halfops.
19.Changed Window menu to not show windows hidden with /window -h
   unless shift key is pressed when viewing menu.
20.Changed /window -h to not hide Status Windows in treebar,
   switchbar, and window menu, as these are root windows for all
   other windows on that connection.
21.Fixed bind to adapter/IP address bug that caused it to use wrong
   adapter if adapter has two identically named IPv4 and IPv6 entries.
22.Fixed bind to adapter/IP address bug that caused it to block
   connections in some contexts.
23.Fixed DCC get sometimes reporting that the transfer completed when
   there was insufficient disk space to save the whole file.
24.Fixed scripts editor bug that caused incorrect indentation in saved
   files with certain combinations of comments and brackets.

11/12/2020 - mIRC v7.64

Changes:
1.Fixed /bcopy not copying zero length binary variables.
2.Fixed /timer -h multimedia timer bug that caused imprecise elapsed
  time measurement at low millisecond intervals.
3.Fixed $bfind() N parameter not being applied during a .regex search.
4.Fixed $min()/$max() parsing bug.
5.Extended the DLL LOADINFO structure to include a DWORD dBytes
  variable that specifies the maximum number of bytes allowed when
  writing to the data and parms strings.
6.Fixed /timer halted message not being displayed in some cases.
7.Fixed DDE server not being reset when DDE settings changed in the
  Options DDE dialog.
8.Fixed SSL private key error incorrectly being reported as an
  SSL certificate error in some contexts.
9.Fixed bind to adapter/IP address bug that prevented it from using
  adapters with dynamic IP addresses.
10.Changed $base() to remove limit on floating point precision for
   larger bases.
11.Fixed $base() not rounding fractions to current base.
12.Updated LibZip library to v1.7.3.
13.Changed $regml().pos so that if //u is not used for a unicode
   string, UTF-8 characters now return the position of the start
   of the character in the unicode string.
14.Added $regml().bytepos that returns the UTF-8 byte positions
   matched within a string.
15.Changed /setlayer to report an error if invalid parameters are
   used.
16.Fixed $bfind().regex issues related to UTF-8 parsing.
17.Added $ticksqpc that returns a high resolution tick count.
18.Changed isalpha/isalnum/isletter/islower/isupper/$lower()/$upper()
   to use consistent APIs.
19.Fixed $window().title returning incorrect results for some
   windows.
20.Changed Control+Break to be more responsive.
21.Updated installer to backup files into dated folders in the
   backups folder. Files that are in the root of the backups folder
   and that match known installed filenames are moved into their own
   dated folder. All unrecognized files and folders in the root of the
   backups folder are left as is, in case the user has been putting
   their own files or folders in there. The installer will keep the
   last ten dated backup folders and will delete older ones.
22.Changed workaround for Windows 10 MDI caption bug so that it is
   not applied during remote desktop sessions.
23.Fixed channel keys being saved incorrectly on Undernet ircds that
   use * for hidden keys.
24.Updated OpenSSL library to v1.1.1i.
25.Fixed on CHAR event not being triggered in custom @window editbox
   and listbox.
26.Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.
27.Changed how notices are displayed so that consecutive notices from
   the same user are now grouped together.
28.Added protocol-relative redirect support to $urlget().
29.Changed $window().dw so that it now returns the printable width,
   which can vary depending on window type, as opposed to the
   client area.
30.Added $urlget() 'k' switch to prevent redirects.
31.Extended $width()/$height()/$wrap() to support parameter that
   sets the bold, italic, control code, and tab options,
   ie. $width(text,font,size,bipt) where each letter can be followed
   by an N value of 0 or 1 to enable or disable it. The $wrap()
   identifier also supports an option that enables word wrap,
   ie. $wrap(text, font, size, width, biptw, N).
32.Changed $wrap() so that the 'p' option, enabled by default,
   preserves control codes across wrapped lines.
33.Fixed $utfencode() memory gpf bug that caused intermittent
   crashes.
34.Extended tab character support to all windows.
35.Added /drawtext -d option to disable tab support, which has
   always been enabled by default.
36.Fixed /drawdot bug with certain dot sizes.
37.Added $min()/$max() .alpha/.alphacs/.alnum/.alnumcs properties.
38.Changed "Unable to join channel" message to include URL if one
   is specified in the numeric.
39.Optimized display speed of long lines of text.
40.Added $window().fontdialogsize property.
41.Changed "Nick Colors" idle time option to update less frequently.
42.Added Bind Adapter/IP Address option where, if the bind fails,
   mIRC can either try the system default bind or just block the
   connection, eg. when a VPN adapter is not available.

17/08/2020 - mIRC v7.63

Changes:
1.Fixed tray tip display bug that caused close box to be displayed
  incorrectly.
2.Updated OpenSSL library to v1.1.1g.
3.Added custom dialog group control left/right/center style.
4.Fixed Control+Break key gpf bug in Windows 7.
5.Extended $tempfn to work with folder names.
6.Extended $duration() to handle negative values.
7.Added /drawtext -v switch that allows use of a &binvar instead of
  text.
8.Added $tempfn(path) that allows specifying the file/folder path.
9.Fixed display of numeric 477 to show authenticate message on some
  networks.

29/07/2020 - mIRC v7.62

Changes:
1.Changed how on KEYUP/KEYDOWN are processed. This affects the values
  returned in $keyval and $keychar for combined key presses.
2.Reverted change to $cnick() so that it returns default values for
  non-existent nicks.
3.Changed how Control+Break key is handled so that it only works when
  mIRC is the active application.
4.Updated PCRE regex library to v8.44.
5.Updated LibZip library to v1.6.1.
6.Added $width() and $height() sixth $true/$false parameter to enable
  custom window-specific measurement.
7.Added support for irc hotlinks that uses the non-standard plus sign
  prefixed port number format, such as +6697.
8.Extended $bfind() to support regex searches using:

  $bfind(&binvar, N, M, [name]).regex

  Where M is a regular expression when .regex is used. The name
  parameter is the $regml() name.

9.Extended $regml()/$regmlex() to save result to a &binvar using:

  $regml([name], n, [&binvar])
  $regmlex([name], m, n, [&binvar])

  When saving to a &binvar, returns length of saved text.

10.Updated OpenSSL library to v1.1.1f.
11.Changed [ssl] certificate warning item name in mirc.ini to ensure
   one-time reset to a new default value.
12.Added CAP support for setname. This is automatically enabled if
   available and will cause the server to send the setname event to the
   client when users change their full name. Events are not shown but
   are triggered as RAW events.
13.Changed IRCv3 CAP support of draft/label and draft/labeled-response
   to label and labeled-response. ACK replies from the server are not
   shown but are triggered as RAW events.
14.Updated colors dialog, control+K dialog, and /color command to
   support color indexes 16 to 98.
15.Added $comval() .result property to support &binvar as a fourth
   parameter, same as $com(), to store one dimensional array results. If
   array is BSTR, it is stored using null bytes as separators.
16.Added on CHAR event that returns translated keyboard presses. Uses
   the same format as on KEYDOWN/KEYUP.
17.Fixed tray tip display bug with different DPI settings.
18.Fixed /hmake not allowing maximum prime value for table size during a
   hash table rename.
19.Fixed display of channel name in numeric 477 on some networks.
20.Fixed script editor rich editbox bug that may have caused font to be
   set incorrectly.
21.Added workaround for maximized MDI window caption bug in Windows 10
   on monitors with some DPI/resolution combinations.
22.Fixed custom window treebar folder not staying open in some contexts.
23.Added $min()/$max() identifiers that return minimum/maximum of a
   list of values. Defaults to numbers. Properties: .text, .textcs,
   and .nick. If a single parameter is used, it is treated as a space-
   delimited list of values. If two or more parameters are used, each is
   treated as a separate value.
24.Added check for numeric 696 on ircds that report errors when mode
   requests include more modes than parameters.
25.Optimized processing of long strings in /commands, token identifiers,
   $calc(), $eval(), and identifier parameters.
26.Fixed "Mark As Read" menu item in treebar, switchbar, toolbar and
   MDI popup menus not resetting flash/hilight correctly.
27.Fixed CAP logon/authentication messages not being displayed if
   remotes are disabled.
28.Added highlight dialog item that allows you to specify the channels
   and/or nicks to which the highlight applies.
29.Added $highlight().chans property.
30.Added a "Do Not Disturb" option to the Tools menu that allows you
   to temporarily disable all visible/audible notifications such as
   sounds, tips, flashing window icons, tray icon animations, and more.
31.Added /donotdisturb [on|off] command and $donotdisturb identifier.
32.Fixed if/while parser not detecting some invalid bracket combinations.
33.Updated dialog titles for several features. Most dialog titles are
   now prefixed with "mIRC". Some dialog titles have also been changed
   to better describe their purpose.
34.Changed richedit editbox in windows, scripts editor, and custom
   dialogs so that it no longer beeps when cursor is moved beyond text
   range, like standard editboxes.
35.Fixed incoming server messages being truncated at 1024 bytes for
   servers that send messages longer than the standard 512 byte maximum.
36.Extended $maxlenl maximum internal string length to allow parsing of
   IRCv3 8191 byte message tag + message.
37.Fixed INI file caching bug with semi-colon prefixed comments.
38.Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.

01/03/2020 - mIRC v7.61

Changes:
1.Fixed custom toolbar buttons not being displayed correctly.
2.Fixed /if isnum backward compatibility issue due to recent change.
3.Fixed local host/ip addresses not being changeable while connected to
  a server.
4.Fixed bitmap memory bug in About dialog.
5.Fixed /cnick not updating nick color immediately when used with a
  full address.

08/02/2020 - mIRC v7.59

Changes:
1.Changed $disk().unc to use newer API.
2.Fixed channel mode parsing bug.
3.Added /cnick support for auto-color option by allowing * as color
  number. Also added $cnick().auto property.
4.Changed SSL default setting to "Skip connections with invalid
  certificates". This means that mIRC will, by default, not connect to
  SSL servers with invalid SSL certificates.
5.Fixed how nick!user@host addresses are formed in $ulist() and other
  features so that IPv6 addresses are handled correctly.
6.Changed toolbar display code to handle icons of different sizes for
  default internal icons.
7.Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.
8.Fixed treeview display bug when scrolling new item into view.
9.Changed treeview sorting method that affects favorites and servers
  dialogs.
10.Fixed favorites dialog join button not initiating a connection if
   not currently connected.
11.Fixed $cnick() returning default values for non-existent items.
12.Changed how log filenames are renamed to use group/network names
   during a connect/disconnect.
13.Changed quote "" parsing routines to use the same consistent method
   for all commands/identifiers.
14.Extended $fline((@name,text,N,T,S) to support S parameter for
   search start position and $flinen that returns match position.
15.Fixed custom dialog controls not being updated immediately when /did
   is used to change their contents.
16.Added /fseek -p switch that moves the file pointer backwards to the
   start of the current line. If the file pointer is already at the
   start of a line, it is moved to the start of the previous line.
17.Fixed $fread() not setting file pointer to start of next line if
   line is longer than the maximum line length.
18.Fixed /halt not stopping $hfind() search and then allowing script to
   continue running.
19.Changed how Port dialog bind adapter setting is saved in mirc.ini so
   that both name and address are saved to [ports] section.
20.Fixed $bindip() bug when used with dual-stack network interface.
21.Added $caller tabcomp value for tab completion.
22.Fixed /if & bit comparison not using unsigned 32-bit integers.
23.Changed identd dialog so that userid entry is not changed when "Use
   ID from email address" is checked.
24.Changed /if isnum to also support larger value as the first number.
25.Optimized file reading routines to improve processing speed for
   contexts that affect /fseek -l, $read(), $lines(), and /loadbuf.
26.Added /drawrot -p switch that clips the rotated rectangle.
27.Fixed $zip() creating zip files with temporary file attributes.
28.Updated the IRC FAQ that comes with mIRC and is in the Help section
   of the mIRC website.
29.Added support for the IRCv3 TAGMSG event. This event is not shown
   but triggers as a RAW event.
30.Changed the /help and /ircintro commands so that if the mirc.chm or
   ircintro.chm files cannot be found, they are instead opened on the
   mIRC website.

17/11/2019 - mIRC v7.58

Changes:
1.Fixed $+ not correctly reporting string too long errors.
2.Changed installer setting to make it DPI aware.
3.Changed $findfile() to preserve multiple spaces inside a wildcard
  parameter.
4.Fixed /reload interacting incorrectly with Script Editor when a new,
  unedited file is created.
5.Fixed $parms returning incorrect values in some contexts.
6.Fixed DCC trust user list bug that prevented autoget from working
  correctly for trusted users.
7.Optimized SendMessage() processing to use less memory.
8.Fixed SendMessage() gpf bug where recursive calls result in a stack
  overflow.
9.Updated several features to be DPI aware.
10.Fixed incorrect default location for alias, popup, and remote
   scripts when no files are present.
11.Fixed /exit -nr not restarting mIRC.
12.Added /run -a switch to request running as administrator.
13.Fixed script editor bug that was wrapping excessively long lines,
   resulting in script errors, instead of truncating them.
14.Fixed SendMesage() handling of negative indexes.
15.Fixed richedit control handling bug that may have caused some
   editbox-related code to behave incorrectly if the richedit control
   failed to load.
16.Fixed a number of issues identfied by CppCheck relating to range
   checking, memory initializations, optimizations, portability, and
   pointer dereferences.
17.Fixed script #group parsing bug for invalid group definitions.
18.Fixed $decode() gpf buf.
19.Updated more routines to use 32/64-bit compatible types as step in
   preparing for a 64bit version of mIRC.
20.Fixed text file writing bug that could have caused the UTF-8 BOM to
   be set incorrectly.
21.Fixed $url not working with newer versions of Chrome.
22.Changed /msg to no longer check for channel/nick prefixes due to some
   networks using identical prefixes for both.
23.Changed all &binvar supporting features to allow single character &
   as a binvar name for consistency.
24.Fixed $findfile() not freeing handles in some contexts. This also
   affected other features that retrieve file lists.
25.Fixed /ignore/protect/aop/avoice gpf bugs.
26.Fixed 64bit time calculations in several features.
27.Fixed memory HDC allocation error check in line marker.
28.Fixed $did().csel potential gpf bug when freeing memory.
29.Changed compiler settings to disable string pooling and enable whole
   program optimization.
30.Added /logview -nN switch to scroll view to line number.
31.Changed /play to improve handling of window/file names.
32.Updated OpenSSL library to v1.1.1d.
33.Added 421 numeric check for server disabled LIST command.
34.Changed server list and favorites list listboxes to use full line
   selection.
35.Updated channel mode parsing and display based on CHANMODES token.
36.Fixed /window -r not restoring a hidden non-min/max window.
37.Changed $ctime() to return $null for invalid input and to handle
   commas as separators.
38.Added support for IRCv3 message-tags token and msgid feature.
39.Fixed $N parameter bug that caused inconsistent handling of text
   appended to the $N parameter, such as text that contained numbers
   or dashes.
40.Fixed handling of channel nickname mode 'q' in some contexts.
41.Added $isadmin identifier that returns current elevation status.
42.Updated error handling for a number of APIs to use consistent methods
   across all features.
43.Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.
44.Added auto-color nickname option to nick color list.
45.Updated servers.ini list. Around forty networks now use valid SSL
   certficates. These networks are now listed with only port +6697 to
   ensure secure connections.
46.Changed SSL hostname validation method when matching against
   certificate CN and SAN. Multi-label wildcards are now allowed.
47.Added $sslcertvalid that returns $true/$false if the SSL certificate
   is valid or not for the current SSL connection.
48.Changed /dns to show all resolved IP addresses for a hostname, not
   just the first IP address.
49.Optimized $bfind().text search method.
50.Added $bfind().textcs property for case-sensitive search.
51.Optimized SSL support.

25/07/2019 - mIRC v7.57

Changes:
1.Updated OpenSSL library to v1.1.1c.
2.Changed OpenSSL support so that, by default, mIRC no longer checks for
  a newer external version of the OpenSSL library. This should resolve
  the R6034 Windows error reported by some users.
3.Changed /url, /run, and other features to use alternative method to
  open links to resolve issues with asynchronous window messages.
4.Fixed STS/SSL server/port parsing bug.
5.Fixed handling of 64bit timestamp value for several features.
6.Changed $crc() to use larger read buffer with files to improve speed.
7.Fixed script parser bug that caused binary variables to be unset in
  scripts that call external DLLS that SendMessage() mIRC many times.

06/07/2019 - mIRC v7.56

Changes:
1.Added $urlget() identifier that downloads content from http/https
  addresses. Returns id number. Calls alias with id number when transfer
  completes.

  $id = $urlget(url,hgpuadfbrtic,target,alias,headers,body)

  $urlget(N/id) used with properties:
    url, redirect, method, type, target, alias, id, state, size,
    resume, rcvd, time, reply

  url = http/https://user:pass@address:port/file?parameters
  options =
    hgpuad = head, get, post, put, patch, or delete
    fb = file or &binvar
    r = resume
    t = use .part file
    i = ignore SSL errors
    c = cancel
  target = file or &binvar
  alias = called on completion
  headers = &binvar
  body = &binvar

2.Fixed $regml().pos bug with multibyte characters.
3.Changed $dll() to require filename .dll extension. If filename does
  not have an extension, .dll is appended.
4.Updated OpenSSL library to v1.1.1b. Required code changes due to to
  changes in OpenSSL 1.1.x. Older OpenSSL versions are no longer
  supported. Compiled to work on XP. Dynamic loading of OpenSSL DLLs
  still supported as libcrypto-1_1.dll and libssl-1_1.dll.
5.Updated TagLib library to latest fixes.
6.Updated LibZip library to v1.5.2.
7.Reverted changes to $gmt(N) and $gmt(format).
8.Changed a number of features to use tick counts instead of system
  time for time measurement.
9.Fixed $astime() and other time/date features applying DST incorrectly
  in some situations.
10.Changed time/date features to use threadsafe versions of CRT time
   functions.
11.Changed $encode()/$decode() to allow non-literal keys longer than 56
   characters.
12.Changed $encode()/$decode() to not allow salts/IVs that contain
   codepoints 256+.
13.Fixed "try next server in group" option being incorrectly applied in
   some situations.
14.Changed action message processing so that it is integrated into
   the privmsg routines.
15.Changed time/date routines to use Windows APIs, allowing extended
   date range 1601 to 9999.
16.Changed $encode()/$decode() to zero-pad salt strings shorter than
   eight bytes.
17.Changed /msg -switches support to enable backwards compatibility with
   BNCs that use - as an invalid nickname prefix, such as -sBNC and
   -psyBNC.
18.Changed DCC Folders dialog so that when a new item is added, it
   uses the default get path by default.
19.Fixed script error not showing line number for single-line event
   definitions.
20.Added /server [-key filename] to set private key file to use for
   an SSL connection.
21.Changed nickserv logon method to increase delay after last nickserv
   notice is received before triggering perform.
22.Changed status window connection state icons.  Now show a green
   lock icon for a valid SSL connection and an orange icon for an SSL
   connection with an invalid certificate.
23.Fixed $com()/$comcall() not scanning the local alias/script file
   first for a matching command/identifier.
24.Updated PCRE regex library to v8.43.
25.Fixed $$ prefix not working for remote identifiers.
26.Fixed connect retry count and port number not changing when try next
    server in group option is not enabled.
27.Changed flashing tray icon feature so that icon is dimmed instead of
   hidden.
28.Changed $sha1/$sha256/$sha384/$sha512/$hmac() to use larger read
   buffer with files to improve speed.

08/02/2019 - mIRC v7.55

Changes:
1.Fixed /onotice and related commands not working correctly in some
  contexts.
2.Fixed Clear History log files option not deleting empty nested
  folders in logs folder.
3.Fixed $sha1()/$hmac() bug that caused &binvar data to be overwritten.
4.Added support for AES encrypted ZIP files using the LibZip library.

  $zip(file.zip,cetlpo,file|dir,password,N)

  Where the switches are: c = create, e = extract, t = test, l = list,
  p = password, o = overwrite existing file/dir.

  The N parameter is used with the list option, where 0 = return number
  of items, otherwise return Nth item, with properties: size.

5.Extended $rand() to allow negative number values.
6.Changed $rand() RNG algorithm to Bob Jenkins's JSF64.
7.Added $rands() identifier that returns a cryptographically secure
  random number using Microsoft's RtlGenRandom() API.
8.Changed all features that previously used the standard CRT rand() to
  use the new RNG algorithm.
9.Fixed $hfind() not reporting an error when the called alias returns
  an error.
10.Fixed $asctime() 'z' bug that returned whole numbers for timezones
   with 15/30/45 minute offsets.
11.Extended IRCv3 support for CAP NEW so that if a token is normally
   requested by mIRC on connect, it will be automatically requested on
   receipt of CAP NEW as well.
12.Fixed RCE vulnerability affecting all versions of mIRC (CVE-2019-6453).
13.Added $notify().sound2 property to return offline sound.
14.Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.
15.Fixed "Show nicks on join" option not working correctly.

21/12/2018 - mIRC v7.54

Changes:
1.Fixed script editor editbox horizontal scrollbar sensitivity.
2.Fixed /hadd -mN parsing bug.
3.Fixed $decode() parsing of N parameter when N = 0 to ensure that it
  always returns a line count of one.
4.Fixed API call that prevented mIRC from running on Windows XP.
5.Fixed /timer -p switch not counting down correctly when more than one
  repetition is specified.
6.Added /timer -P switch that pauses the count down for a timer.
7.Updated OpenSSL library to v1.0.2q.
8.Optimized while loop parameter parsing in scripts.
9.Fixed $hmac() bug when using sha384/sha512 with keys longer than 64
  bytes.
10.Fixed /onotice and related commands not working in some contexts.
11.Fixed Log Files dialog sort by date column bug.
12.Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.

29/11/2018 - mIRC v7.53

Changes:
1.Added /set -g switch that makes /set change a global variable.
2.Added /unset -gl switches that make /unset change a global or local
  variable.
3.Changed udpate check/other features to avoid insecure SSL protocols in
  HTTP requests under Windows XP.
4.Changed all time-related features to use 64bit time values.
5.Fixed hotlink parsing of mailto: and similar.
6.Added hotlink parsing of xmpp:, teamspeak:, ssh:, and sftp:.
7.Extended /drawpic -o [N] to refer to frames in a GIF file.
8.Added /drawpic -f switch that works with -o to specify the Nth icon
  and the Mth frame in that icon by using /drawpic -of [N] [M].
9.Extended $pic() to support properties .icons, .frames, .delay and
  to allow specifying N and M parameters.
10.Added voice selection to speech options.
11.Fixed $onpoly() not handling zero area polygons correctly.
12.Changed $onpoly()/$inpoly() implementations from regions to maths.
13.Updated PCRE regex library to v8.42.
14.Fixed script parser bug that caused mIRC to process Windows messages
   while a script was running.
15.Changed $encode() base32 to use 72 character chunks.
16.Fixed /ialfill not displaying channel name when fill completes.
17.Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.
18.Fixed $ctime() returning incorrect result at midnight before a new
   year begins.
19.Changed the way maximum server line lengths are applied to various
   commands and features.
20.Added /privmsg command.
21.Added support for CPRIVMSG and CNOTICE. If listed in numeric 005,
   PRIVMSG and NOTICE will be automatically upgraded for most
   outgoing messages if you are an op/voice on a channel and message
   a user on the same channel.
22.Added support for numeric 005 STATUSMSG=@+ and WALLVOICES and added
  commands /vmsg, /vnotice, and /wallvoices. If server does not support
  STATUSMSG, WALLCHOPS, or WALLVOICES, mIRC uses own method to send to
  multiple targets.
23.Changed line splitting method for long messages when:
   1) Sending message through editbox of a channel/query window.
   2) Using commands /ame /amsg /describe /me /msg /omsg /privmsg /qme
   /qmsg /query /sound /vmsg /wallchops.

   Note: when line splitting, the /sound command switches to an ACTION
   message for the second line onwards.

   Note: line splitting is not performed on NOTICEs, so is not applied
   to /notice /onotice /vnotice /wallvoices.

24.Changed multiple target handling in PRIVMSG and NOTICE so that if
   TARGMAX or MAXTARGETS are not specified in numeric 005, mIRC assumes
   the maximum is one target per message.
25.Changed channel favorites dialog drag-resize method.
26.Changed channel mode parsing in numeric 324 and MODE events to handle
   channel keys hidden from non-ops only on the Undernet ircd. As there
   is no numeric 005 token for this, this is based on the Undernet ircd
   version number in numeric 004.

   Note: Added support for numeric 005 HIDDENKEY token. When specified,
   this means that non-ops on a channel receive the * character as the
   channel key in numeric 324 and MODE events. Clients should treat the
   * character (or whatever character/string is sent) as a non-key if
   they are not ops. If the user is then opped, their client can issue
   a MODE to retrieve the real key.

27.Changed STATUSMSG support to use only NOTICE on the Undernet ircd,
   which is the only method Undernet supports. On all other ircds,
   STATUSMSG implies NOTICE/PRIVMSG. As there is no numeric 005 token
   for this, this is based on the Undernet ircd version number in
   numeric 004.
28.Increased the size of short, medium, and long string lengths used
   throughout mIRC that affect features such as variables, window names,
   and so on.
29.Increased stack reserve size from 2 to 8 megabytes.
30.Added identifiers $maxlens $maxlenm $maxlenl that return the maximum
   string lengths for small, medium, and large strings.

   Note: although it is possible in some situations, eg. when assigning
   values to variables, to store slightly longer strings, the values
   returned by the above identifiers should be treated as maximums.

31.Changed CAP packet-size request to use mIRC's medium string length,
   as returned by $maxlenm. The previous version was requesting 1024. If
   a server replies with a different value, mIRC will use it, with a
   mimumum of 512 and a maximum of $maxlenm.
32.Changed base64 implementation for $decode() to handle invalid input
   lengths better.
33.Added $eventparms identifer that returns the event-specific parameters
   passed to an executed command in a script.
34.Changed /ialfill to not issue a WHO if it thinks the IAL list is
   already filled or currently filling.
35.Changed $base() to only remove the 0x prefix from base16 input.
36.Changed perform, and the joining of channels, on connect to trigger
   only after a short delay, if the server connection uses nickserv to
   identify a nickname. This ensures that you are able to join channels
   that only allow identified users.
37.Fixed while loop parsing bug when $& is used to separate comparison
   parameters.
38.Changed when the raw event for invite (as a channel notification)
   triggers to allow the /haltdef of default display text.
39.Fixed options/connect dialog new status window being opened with the
   current status window's SSL port/state.
40.Updated OpenSSL library to v1.0.2p.
41.Added support for IRCv3 nested batches. This goes beyond the basic
   batch support in previous versions and implements the full
   specification, which includes nested batches and delaying batch
   execution until end of batch is received. This includes support
   for draft/label and draft/labeled-response.
42.Extended $hfind() 'w' wildmatch and 'r' regular expression parameters
   to search entire length of binary variable data. Note that in the
   case of 'r', long results will be truncated in $regml() due to
   internal string length limits.
43.Fixed $hash() parsing bug that caused a break evaluation error.
44.Changed how mIRC manages its string pool memory to ensure that very
   large strings are freed immediately.
45.Changed $hfind() to allow $null text parameter.
46.Fixed on NOTIFY/UNOTIFY events not resetting print/halt state across
   events.
47.Changed the way long lines are displayed to get around ExtTextOut()
   timeout limitation.
48.Changed default hash table hash function to modified FNV-1A for
   improved distribution.
49.Added support for dynamic-resizing in hash tables for features like
   the IAL, nickname lists, INI files, etc. that start off with small
   hash tables and expand as necessary to improve performance.
50.Fixed $readini() reporting an evaluation error when reading a line
   that contains only empty spaces.
51.Changed the [dirs] section to always contain "getdir", refers to
   the default item in [extensions].
52.Updated TagLib library to latest fixes.
53.In preparation for language translation support, changes have been
   made to the way resources are loaded, the resources file has been
   changed to Unicode, and many string resources have been cleaned up
   and/or re-worded to improve context and make translation easier.
54.Fixed $cb() not delimiting different combinations of $cr, $lf, and
   $crlf correctly in the same text.
55.Fixed $var().secs for local variables returning global variable
   values.
56.Added /load -aN switch that loads alias file into Nth position.
57.Fixed $cb(0,u) not returning line count.
58.Extended /debug -t timestamp to apply to log files.
59.Changed how /clipboard and $cb() are called to mitigate clipboard
   being in use by other applications.
60.Fixed $isbit()/$biton()/$bitoff() allowing N outside range 1 to 32.
61.Changed /var to report an error if it is used outside a script.
62.Added /hload and /hsave -B switch that uses a larger index to allow
   longer binary data to be saved. This is not compatible with files
   created by the -b switch.
63.Changed script editor editbox to allow longer lines before it starts
   wrapping.
64.Changed DCC Send file dialog to display some custom controls better
   under dark mode in Windows 10.
65.Fixed /ignore -l not showing items in ignore list.

28/02/2018 - mIRC v7.52

Changes:
1.Changed website/forums to use HTTPS/SSL connections.
2.Changed HTTP requests, such as the update check, to use HTTPS/SSL.
  Older versions of mIRC do not support this, so continue to use non-SSL
  connections.
3.Added support for IRCv3 STS secure connection feature that directs
  clients to switch from a non-SSL to an SSL port when connecting to a
  server. STS port and duration settings are saved in servers.ini file.
4.Added /server -u switch that makes the server connection ignore IRCv3
  STS directives.
5.Fixed SSL connect behaviour that prevented a retry connect attempt
  for non-critical SSL errors.
6.Extended $file() to include .path, .name, and .ext properties.
7.Updated code signing certificate.
8.Advance notification: the next version of mIRC will change the default
  SSL dialog setting from "Display invalid certificates for approval" to
  "Skip connections with invalid certificates". This means that, by
  default, mIRC will not connect to SSL servers that use invalid,
  self-signed certificates, such as on EFnet, DALnet, and LinkNet.
9.Fixed $chan().ibl/iel/iil/iql $inmode status not being reset when
  server returns numeric 482.
10.Added support for IRCv3 batch feature, however, as allowed by the
   spec, mIRC does not delay processing of batched lines.
11.Fixed online timer bug that caused mIRC to freeze once a minute the
   more connected status windows were open.
12.Extended Window menu status window items to include user mode.
13.Fixed /editbox -bNeN selection not being set if the text length
   resulted in auto-resizing of the multiline editbox.
14.Extended ^K color support for indexes 16 to 98.
15.Fixed $cb(N,u) not returning UTF-8 encoded text.
16.Updated libraries to OpenSSL 1.0.2n.
17.Fixed $window().tbtext not returning text for hidden windows.
18.Fixed font dialog not displaying sample text correctly for certain
   fonts.
19.Changed $sfile()/$msfile() to return $null for special folders such
   as the fonts folder and to set $sfstate that returns "cancel" for
   cancelled dialogs and "error" for errors.
20.Added "Hide away reminders" option to IRC/Options dialog that hides
   repeat away messages in active query windows for ten minutes.
21.Fixed /timer -h bug that prevented a subsequent /timer -h request
   from using the multimedia timer.
22.Changed script editor file monitor to ignore daylight savings offset
   and to check file size changes.
23.Fixed window focus not being set correctly in some contexts when
   mIRC is made the active application.
24.Changed CAP cap-notify support for NEW/DEL so that mIRC no longer
   disconnects/reconnects for most CAP features unless necessary.
25.Fixed $encode() bug that caused it to report "line too long" with
   binary variables and certain combinations of switches.
26.Updated TagLib library to latest fixes.
27.Fixed $encode()/$decode() with e/c switches not handling short/long
   keys correctly.
28.Extended nickname, highlight, display, marker, and styles dialogs to
   support color indexes 16 to 98.
29.Changed JOIN events to no longer restore/activate channel windows
   that already exist when rejoining after a kick/hop/reconnect.
30.Fixed user/level commands, such as /auser, causing gpf with long
   parameters.
31.Extended highlight dialog to show line color.
32.Changed mouse wheel scrolling to scroll by page if this option is
   enabled for your mouse in Windows.
33.Added /savebuf -p switch that strips control codes from saved lines.
34.Extended $width() to support $true/$false parameters.
35.Extended /hload and /hadd to support -mN which creates the table,
   with N slots, if it does not already exist.
36.Extended $cb() to support output to a %var|&binvar as third parameter
   and to return length. If N == -1, stores entire clipboard.
37.Added /bwrite -c switch that chops file after appended bytes.
38.Extended /window -M -tN to allow N = 0 which enables leading text to
   be hidden.
39.Fixed $hotlink(match) bug that did not store nicknames correctly in
   some contexts.
40.Added $timer(N).name property that treats N parameter as timer name
   and returns position.
41.Added /debug -rNoN switch that sets the received and outgoing line
   colors.
42.Changed server dialog to update the connection details of any open
   status windows if you edit a matching server item.
43.Added $fromeditbox identifier that returns $true/$false if command
   or identifier called directly from an editbox.
44.Changed $encode()/$decode() with e/c switches to allow $null
   parameters.
45.Changed /debug colors to support the color 99 to use the default
   color.
46.Added $parms identifier that returns an untokenized $1- for events
   and other command/identifier calls.
47.Extended /splay to enable pause, seek, and resume with wave and midi
   files.
48.Added /fupdate [N] command that sets the display update rate when
   outputting text to windows.
49.Fixed MDI window maximize bug that caused a second copy of mIRC to
   not have a maximized window on startup.
50.Fixed $msfile() gpf when too many files are selected.
51.Fixed regular expression bug relating to \K escape sequence.
52.Added /ignore support for highlight, speech, and tips.
53.Fixed beep on message option not beeping on an incoming message that
   matched a highlight item. It now beeps as usual if the highlight
   item does not specify a sound.
54.Changed Switchbar/Treebar "blink icons" feature so that it is now
   controlled by the global flash setting and individual window flash
   setting. It can still be fully disabled in the Display dialog.
55.Fixed /window -t <name> T1 T2 ... Tn bug that caused it to not update
   the display immediately.
56.Fixed UDP server sockets being closed due to WSAECONNRESET error.
57.Fixed $com() not freeing returned dispatch pointers if they were not
   being saved for later use.
58.Changed CTCP handling to correctly display empty ACTIONs/SOUNDs and
   empty CTCPs. Also, all CTCPs in DCC Chats are now displayed as CTCPs
   for consistency, not just ACTIONs/SOUNDs.
59.Fixed List Channels dialog file not being set correctly after
   connecting to a different network.
60.Fixed scripts dialog using an invalid folder for new files if a user
   has deleted the folder outside of mIRC.
61.Fixed regex support for UTF-8 parsing and handling (*UTF8) prefix.
62.Added /flash -c switch to clear flash status of all windows.
63.Optimized switchbar in certain contexts when many windows are being
   displayed.
64.Added set/var -p switch to treat value as literal text, including
   quotes and spaces.
65.Added /savebuf -n switch to treat wrapped lines as single line.
66.Changed /join -i so that it will work in an event.
67.Added /join -md switches to set mdi/desktop for new windows.
68.Added /query -mdx switches to set mdi/desktop for new windows and
   to maximize a window.
69.Changed /raw to support @msgtag prefixes internally when parsing
   commands.
70.Changed "Split long channel/query messages" option to handle @msgtag
   prefixes.

18/09/2017 - mIRC v7.51

Changes:
1.Fixed server passwords not being migrated from older versions of mIRC.
2.Fixed hotlinks bug that caused hotlink cursor to be offset in some
  contexts.
3.Fixed favorites history to store server address instead of network
  name if server does not have an entry in the servers list.
4.Fixed /ignore and Options/Ignore so that they use the same method
  when creating the ignore entry.
5.Changed server edit dialog to use "Login method" description for
  login method.
6.Updated libraries to OpenSSL 1.0.2l and PCRE 8.41.
7.Extended channels list "hide non-text channels" option to allow
  display of more double-prefix channels.
8.Fixed /server not parsing passwords set in servers list and allowing
  them to be overriden by those in the /server command.
9.Fixed network name in status window titlebar not being synchronized
  with switchbar/treebar in some contexts.
10.Fixed log files bug that caused logs from different networks to be
   mixed in some contexts.
11.Fixed Clear History option not correctly clearing network names in
   switchbar/treebar for non-connected status windows.
12.Extended /bset to support -1 to append characters.
13.Changed server dialog to display arrow icon under select button if
   user changes connection details for a server entry.
14.Extended DCC Trust to allow network specific address by appending
   ":Network" to the address entry.
15.Extended LOADINFO structure to include DWORD mBeta value that stores
   the beta version number.
16.Fixed mIRC window saved position bug that caused it to reset to the
   wrong position.
17.Updated help file to include a number of missing identifiers and
   commands.
18.Added /set -i switch that only initializes a variable if it does not
   already exist.
19.Fixed tray icon left-click not hiding/showing mIRC window if an
   always-on-top window was onscreen.
20.Fixed script line parser bug that caused a gpf with long lines and
   combinations of $str/$N-/$len.
21.Fixed $N- bug that caused the result to be shorter than it should be
   when there were more than 999 tokens.
22.Optimized parsing speed of $+() and $str().
23.Fixed Window menu close menu item showing Alt+Z shortcut when that
   has been disabled in the Options dialog.
24.Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.
25.Updated library to zlib 1.2.11.
26.Extended $compress()/$decompress() to support raw, zlib, and gzip
   formats, using switch mN, where N = 1 is raw, N = 2 is zlib (the
   default), and N = 3 is gzip.

25/05/2017 - mIRC v7.49

Changes:
1.Changed CAP invite-notify support so that invite notifications are now
  displayed by default.
2.Added CAP 3.2 support, so mIRC now sends LS CAP 302 when logging on.
3.Added CAP cap-notify support which allows a server to add or remove
  capabilities during a connection. mIRC responds to NEW or DEL events
  by quitting and reconecting, as allowed by the specification.
4.Added server version check for UnrealIRCd in order to disable support
  for mode +q quiet lists as UnrealIRCd uses mode +q for owner lists.
5.Changed Add/Edit server dialog to allow use of seperate server and
  logon method passwords.
6.Changed /server -w and -l switches to allow specification of separate
  [-w password] for server and [-l method password] for logon method.
7.Changed $server().pass to return server password and .methodpass to
  return logon method password.
8.Fixed window treebar/switchbar focus bug.
9.Fixed $regmlex() returning 0 for empty capture group when it should
  have been returning $null.
10.Fixed CAP SASL external bug.
11.Added CTCP DCC resume error message when file is smaller than the
   existing file.
12.Added support for evaluation of highlight tip messages.
13.Added /sockopen -n switch to disable Nagle algorithm on socket.
14.Fixed IAL gpf bug when IAL was turned off and channel was joined.

15/04/2017 - mIRC v7.48

Changes:
1.Extended $com() to handle one dimensional single-byte array results
  which are now copied into the specified &binvar.
2.Fixed $com() memory bug that resulted in memory not being freed after
  a dispatch pointer request.
3.Fixed on RAWMODE not triggering for invalid mode changes such as
  a channel mode change for a user that is not on the channel.
4.Fixed /dns bug that returned IP address instead of error if it was
  unable to reverse lookup IP address.
5.Added sha256 fingerprint to server SSL certificate dialog.
6.Extended /dns to parse nick!user@host and extract the host for
  resolution.
7.Added -nowine command line option to disable Wine support for testing
  purposes.
8.Fixed custom dialog incorrect client size bug due to menubar height.
9.Fixed $insong/$inmidi/$inwave bugs with appended text.
10.Fixed if/while statement parsing bug.
11.Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.2k library.
12.Added "Control key enables mark/copy" option to Options/Other/Keys
   dialog.
13.Added support for middle-click mouse button to close tab in
   switchbar/treebar.
14.Added SASL/NickServ support as a per server setting in the servers
   dialog. SASL is supported using CAP. NickServ is supported by
   logging in when numeric 001 is received.
15.Added /server -l method parameter where method can be: pass, sasl,
   external, msg, nickserv.
16.Added $server().method property to return server login method.
17.Added CAP support for extended-join and account-notify. These are
   enabled automatically on connect if available and provide the account
   names of users in JOIN/ACCOUNT events. ACCOUNT events are not shown
   but are used to update $ial().account. They trigger as RAW events.
18.Added CAP support for away-notify. This is automatically enabled if
   available and makes the server send AWAY events to the client
   indicating the away state of users on the same channels as you. AWAY
   events are not shown but are used to set $ial().away. They trigger as
   RAW events.
19.Added CAP support for account-tag. This is automatically enabled if
   available and makes the server include the user's @acount=name in the
   message-tag for messages sent by that user.
20.Added CAP support for invite-notify. This is automatically enabled if
   available and makes the server send these events to the client for
   users invited to their channel. These events are not shown but
   trigger as RAW events.
21.Added CAP support for chghost. This is automatically enabled if
   available and makes the server send user@host updates for nicknames
   on the same channels to update the IAL. These events are not shown
   but trigger as RAW events.
22.Added /ialfill #channel command that fills the IAL by sending a /WHO
   #channel to the server and processing the WHO reply. If the server
   supports WHOX, an extended /WHO #channel %acdfhlnrstu,T is sent
   to receive the account name, where T is a number that uniquely
   identifies the WHO request and is set to 995.
23.Extended mark/copy to allow copying a single character by initially
   marking more than one character.
24.Fixed file change monitor bug that was causing timers to be blocked
   while the file change dialog was displayed.
25.Added $ial().gecos to return gecos/name field from the /who reply.
26.Added $ial().id that is a unique id number for each new entry in
   the IAL.
27.Extended /ialmark to allow setting arbitrary marks using the format:

   /ialmark -nrw <nick> [name] [text]

   -n = the [name] of the mark. If -n is not used, the default name
   'default' is used.
   -r = remove the mark
   -w = used with -rn to treat name as wildcard

   Marks can be accessed using $ialmark(nick,N/name) and properties
   'name' and 'mark'.

28.Optimized $ial() when looking up nick!user@host where the nick
   contains no wildcards. An instant hash lookup on the nick is now
   performed and a full address match performed on the result, instead
   of a slower wildcard/address search.
29.Added $dqwindow identifier that returns the state of the single
   message window. When used in on TEXT/ACTION events, it also returns
   opening/writing/written states.

   echo State: $iif($dqwindow & 1,enabled,not enabled)
   echo State: $iif($dqwindow & 2,open,not open)
   echo State: $iif($dqwindow & 4,opening,not opening)
   echo State: $iif($dqwindow & 8,writing,not writing)
   echo State: $iif($dqwindow & 16,written,not written)

30.Fixed server password not being encoded in mirc.ini/servers.ini
   in some situations.
31.Changed server group to be truncated at ,'":; and space character
   for future extension of servers.ini format.
32.Added -a switch to all binary variable commands that makes them not
   apply UTF-8 encoding to characters in the range 0-255, as long as
   the line contains no characters > 255.
33.Added channel central support for +q quiet list channel mode
   supported by some networks. Also added $chan().iql, $iql(), and
   isquiet.

   Note: the quiet list numerics and their format vary across IRC
   networks: some use 728 and 729, others use 344 and 345, some use a
   'q' parameter, other do not. Also, some networks use these numerics
   for other events, eg. 345 for invites and 729 for whois. mIRC has to
   perform parameter checks on these numerics to decide what they mean
   on a server.

34.Extended numeric 334 support for networks that use it as part of a
   whois reply that provides the user's location. This numeric is also
   used as a list/command syntax reply on other networks.
35.Fixed WM_ENDSESSION handling bug that resulted in mIRC being closed
   by Windows before it could save all settings.
36.Fixed group changes via enable/disable commands not being saved if
   used during the on UNLOAD event.
37.Improved /who tracking method.
38.Extended $regsub() to support output to a &binvar.
39.Extended $regsubex() to support output to a %var|&binvar, and to
   return N, as long as the name parameter is specified.
40.Extended /ban to support -beIq switches. These can be stacked but are
   issued as separate modes.
41.Extended per network channel key history that remembers keys of
   joined channels for the current mIRC session. Now used automatically
   in more joins eg. after reconnect, in new server windows, and so on.
   History is cleared with "Channels" in the Clear History dialog.
42.Fixed window focus not being set correctly when a custom dialog is
   used to open/close custom windows.
43.Changed the way sound-related routines are called by all features
   to make it easier to change away from MCI.
44.Changed sound-related routines to use DirectSound instead of MCI to
   play sounds.
45.Added "Create new certificate" button to Options/IRC/SSL dialog that
   creates a new self-signed client certificate, saves the key/cert
   pair to a PEM file, and sets it as your private key.
46.Added $sslcertsha1 and $sslcertsha256 identifiers that return
   fingerprint of currently loaded SSL client certificate file for use
   with /nickserv cert add.
47.Optimized the channel central +beIq lookup routines.
48.Extended /timer -pr switches to support wildcards.
49.Fixed $sound().vbr bug.
50.Added /drawsize @ <w h> that sets the bitmap size for picture windows
   up to a maximum of 8192 x 8192 pixels. Note: 1) a bitmap cannot be
   sized to less than the largest point that has been drawn on it (which
   can be reset with /clear), 2) once a size has been set, changing the
   window size will not resize it to less than the set size.
51.Fixed /drawreplace not setting largest point drawn to correctly.

18/01/2017 - mIRC v7.47

Changes:
1.Fixed treeview display of text being chopped with certain fonts.
2.Fixed URL hotlink and catcher bugs that prevented extraction of
  short URLs.
3.Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.2j library.
4.Extended /drawpic and other features to support .jpeg extension.
5.Reverted changes to $calc() and other identifiers regarding number of
  decimal digits in floating point calculations.
6.Updated About dialog to use Windows theme.
7.Changed op/ignore/protect/voice commands to maintain position of item
  in list if it already exists. Same applies to editing item in the
  Control dialog.
8.Extended hotlink and catcher to allow underscores in addresses.
9.Updated TagLib library to v1.11.1.
10.Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.
11.Fixed /protect not using network parameter correctly.
12.Fixed $modespl not allowing larger server-set values.
13.Fixed $int() bug when rounding some negative values.
14.Fixed $com().result not trimming trailing zeros in float values.
15.Fixed $wrap() not updating wrapped text if case has changed.
16.Fixed hash table bug that resulted in intermittent gpfs due to
   incorrect freeing of memory in some contexts.

01/08/2016 - mIRC v7.46

Changes:
1.Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.2h library.
2.Fixed /timer -h multimedia timer which was being limited to the
  same rate as the -m millisecond timer.
3.Added $samepath(path1,path2) identifier that returns $true/$false
  if paths refer to the same file/dir. It resolves relative paths and
  converts long/short filenames.
4.Added /copy -f switch to flush copy to disk immediately.
5.Added /rename -f switch to flush rename to disk immediately and -o
  switch to allow overwrite of an existing file.
6.Extended $calc() and other identifiers to return up to 12 decimal
  digits in floating point calculations.
7.Added $tempfn identifier that returns temporary filename located in
  mIRC folder using same method that mIRC uses internally.
8.Fixed Clear History bug that incorrectly cleared channels list
  settings while status window was connected to a server.
9.Extended /mkdir to create the full path to the target folder.
10.Changed the way files are replaced during updates to decrease the
  potential for file loss eg. lost mirc.ini files in situations such
  as gpfs, BSODs, and power failures.
11.Changed URL catcher to extract URLs using the same method used by
   hotlink feature.
12.Extended URL hotlink/extract feature to handle IPv6 addresses.
13.Fixed $base() bug with floating point precision.
14.Fixed /hadd not reporting error if UTF-8 conversion results in a
   string that is too long.
15.Fixed script error not showing line number for single-line event
   definitions.
16.Added /list -n switch to minimize channels list window.
17.Added resize grip to bottom right of resizable dialogs: channel
   central, channel folder, play central, and scripts editor.
18.Fixed regex bug when \K is used in some regex patterns, such as
   $regsubex(abcd, /.\K/g, <>).
19.Fixed /drawline -p bug when measuring clipping width for text that
   contains tab characters.
20.Updated to PCRE 8.39 library.
21.Added display of CAP state on connecting to a server and when CAP
   commands are issued later.
22.Fixed first server "command not supported" error message not being
   displayed.

25/04/2016 - mIRC v7.45

Changes:
1.Fixed on BAN/UNBAN event bug that caused it to not be triggered on
  mode +b/-b events.
2.Updated channels /list feature to send *matchtext* to server in LIST
  request on Undernet and Quakenet.
3.Fixed DCC Send file dialog nickname combobox being incorrectly sized.
4.Updated installer to re-use default NSIS uninstall executable.
5.Fixed $sdir() new file dialogs not handling invalid path names.
6.Fixed $sfile() new file dialogs not filling in filename editbox if
  filename provided.
7.Fixed tray tips bug that caused gpf triggered by right-click on tray
  tip and possibly other contexts.
8.Fixed tray tips and speech bug in formatting of text for mode event
  that contains multiple mode changes.
9.Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.

25/03/2016 - mIRC v7.44

Changes:
1.Fixed incorrectly formatted else/elseif reporting the wrong error.
2.Changed /fwrite -n to allow writing an empty line.
3.Updated manifest files to indicate Windows 10 compatibility.
4.Extended $os identifier to detect Windows 10.
5.Added support for extended numeric 338 reply with IPv6 address.
6.Fixed $encode($null,m) returning "line too long" error.
7.Added $regml().group property that returns the () group number for
  a match and .match property that returns the match number in the
  case of a /g global match that returns multiple matches.
8.Added /sockopen -46 switches to specify the IPv4/IPv6 context when
  resolving named addresses.
9.Extended /sockopen to base its IPv4/IPv6 context on the bind address
  if specified and if the -46 switches are not used.
10.Changed /server to base its IPv4/IPv6 context on the IP address if
   one is used.
11.Added $isalias() property .ftype and now allows listing of lines in
   multi-line aliases using $isalias(alias,N).alias.
12.Fixed $msgtags not being reset immediately after an event.
13.Fixed $eval() bug that caused over-evaluation in some cases.
14.Fixed logging bug with large log files.
15.Fixed log view dialog file size bug with large log files.
16.Extended $com() to allow passing parameters in from and results out
   to binary variables. To pass parameters in from binary variables,
   prefix the variable type with & to indicate the parameter is a binary
   variable eg. $com(name, member, method, &bstr, &binvar). To retrieve
   a result into a binary variable, use $com(name, &binvar).result.
17.Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.2g library.
18.Extended $sysdir() to support downloads folder.
19.Updated to PCRE 8.38 library.
20.Added CA root certificates cacert.pem file to installer. On a new
   install, mIRC will default to using this as the trusted authorities
   file if found in the mIRC folder.
21.Fixed $findfile()/$finddir() not responding to Control+Break.
22.Added regex modifier 'u' which enables PCRE_UTF8 and PCRE_UCP in the
   same way as PHP.
23.Fixed CAP bug that caused mIRC not to parse the capabilities list if
   it was not prefixed by a : colon.
24.Updated code signing certificate to SHA-256. Binaries are now dual
   code-signed with SHA-1 and SHA-256.
25.Updated TagLib library to v1.11.
26.Extended $regex() to allow unlimited backreferences.
27.Added $file().version to return file version of executable/DLL.
28.Extended $bvar(&binvar) to return name if &binvar exists.
29.Added $font(N/name) identifier with properties .size, .pitch, and
   .type.
30.Added command warning dialog that warns new users when they enter a
   scripting command into an editbox. The option is enabled by default
   and can be enabled/disabled in the Options/Other/Confirm dialog.
31.Added $unsafe(text) identifier for use with, for example, user input
   in /timer commands, that delays evaluation of text for one level of
   evaluation.
32.Moved send file dialog options, such as packet size, to DCC Options
   dialog.
33.Updated all file dialogs, including the send file dialog, to use
   modern file dialogs.
34.Updated to NSIS 2.50 installer and related plugins.
35.Fixed mode +q event being processed as on OWNER/DEOWNER event on
   networks that use +q as a channel mode.
36.Fixed numeric 353 and 366 bug that caused them to trigger the raw
   event even if raw was disabled.
37.Fixed if/while bracket parsing bug that caused mIRC to freeze with
   a certain combination of separators and brackets.
38.Added /write -mN switch, where N = 0 is the default behaviour, N = 1
   adds CRLF to end of file if not already there before writing a line,
   and N = 2 never adds CRLF to end of file before writing a line.
39.Added check for servers that include MONITOR in numeric 005 but do
   not actually support it. mIRC reverts back to ISON in this case.
40.Fixed on UNLOAD event not being triggered when a file is deleted
   via the Script Editor File/Delete menu item.
41.Fixed treebar expand/collapse bug that was causing treebar not to
   update correctly.
42.Fixed dcc chat window beep on incoming text not paying attention to
   the "Enable Sounds" option in the options dialog.
43.Fixed active "A" letter not appearing on tray icon for the active
   mIRC when more than one mIRC is running.
44.Updated installer so that, if installing as non-portable, it writes
   to the registry to set mIRC as an IRC protocol handler and to make
   mIRC appear in the default programs list. mIRC also does this itself
   on startup if run as non-portable and as an administrator. On Windows
   8 onwards, administrator access is not required for this to work.
45.Added installer /NOADMIN switch to allow running installer without
   administrator access.
46.Updated installer to remove legacy code that was needed for older
   Windows versions.
47.Added "Certficate" menu item to status window system menu that
   allows viewing of the SSL certificate for an SSL connection.
48.Changed /exit -r to no longer restart mIRC using a short filename,
   which had been necessary under older Windows versions.
49.Changed SSL certificate warning dialog to center based on the status
   window position as opposed to the mIRC window.
50.Changed various dialogs to center in the middle of the MDI window
   if the top MDI window is zoomed.
51.Fixed SSL memory leak that caused small amounts of memory not to
   be freed during initial connection.
52.Added regex modifier 'F' that makes \N back-references in patterns
   and N indexes in identifiers refer to the () capture group order. It
   also causes $regml() to include empty () matches. This makes the
   regex feature work like standard regex. Help file has been updated to
   include these details.
53.Added $regmlex(name,M,N) where M is the match number (in case of
   multiple /g global matches) and N is the () group number. If N is not
   specified, it defaults to 1.
54.Extended $url to work with browsers that do not support DDE, like
   Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.

03/08/2015 - mIRC v7.43

Changes:
1.Fixed window focus bug that affected switching windows when using
  control+tab, the switchbar, and other methods.
2.Added $sysdir(item) to return system folders for the current user
  where item can be profile, desktop, documents, music, pictures,
  and videos.

17/07/2015 - mIRC v7.42

Changes:
1.Fixed tokenization bug due to strtok()'s use of an internal static
  varible that may have caused a number of subtle bugs. Replaced with
  more secure strtok_s().
2.Fixed script error line number bug that was causing the line
  number not to be reported in some contexts.
3.Fixed /drawtext -c clipping bug.
4.Added /filter -hN switch that indents wrapped text when the -p
  switch is used.
5.Fixed channel central listbox horizontal scrollbar bug that caused
  the ends of lines to be chopped.
6.Updated libraries to OpenSSL 1.0.1p.
7.Fixed SSL certificate change warning bug that caused warnings to be
  displayed for valid certificates.
8.Fixed /filter output to nul not working.
9.Updated voice command support to work with newer versions of Windows.
10.Extended /server to handle passwords with spaces.
11.Updated libraries to PCRE v8.37.
12.Changed drag-drop to only set focus on a window once a file has been
   dropped onto it and before commands are executed.
13.Fixed /play dialog not allowing long filenames to be typed into
   filename editbox.
14.Fixed file dialog bug that prevented typing a folder name into the
   filename editbox to change into that folder.
15.Changed script processing method so that Windows no longer thinks
   mIRC has stopped responding during long loops.
16.Extended /savebuf -l to work with channel nicklist.
17.Fixed /exit bug that caused settings to be saved incorrectly when
   used in some contexts.
18.Fixed $input() bug that caused mIRC to gpf if the script it was
   running from was modified while waiting for input.
19.Fixed $encode(..., 0) and $decode(..., 0) not returning correct
   line count.
20.Added $encode()/$decode() 'a' switch for base32 encoding.
21.Fixed $encode() bug that caused a gpf with input whose encoded
   output was longer than maximum line length, now triggers "line too
   long" error.
22.Added $sha256(), $sha384() and $sha512() identifiers, same format
   as $sha1().
23.Added $hmac(text|&binvar|filename, key, hash, N) identifier where
   hash = md5, sha1 (default), sha256, sha384, or sha512, and N = 0
   for plain text (default), 1 for &binvar, 2 for filename.
24.Added $hotp(key, count, hash, digits) identifier and
   $totp(key, time, hash, digits, timestep) identifiers.

   The key can be in a hex format of 40/64/128 chars, base32 format
   of 16/24/32 chars, or plain text. It can also be in a Google
   Authenticator format ie. lowercase with spaces.

   For $hotp: count is required, hash and digits are optional and
   default to sha1 and 6.

   For $totp: time, hash, digits, and timestep are optional and
   default to $ctime, sha1, 6, and 30.

25.Fixed $sdir() not being centered correctly after you resize the
   dialog.
26.Added support for IRCv3 message tags. mIRC will now automatically
   remove @ prefixed tags from incoming server messages and store
   them in the $msgtags identifier. The CAP server-time "time" tag
   can now be parsed when mixed with other tags.
27.Fixed treebar not setting active item when maximized windows are
   hidden and then shown again.
28.Added $msgtags(tag|N) identifier with .tag .key properties, where
   N = 0 returns number of tags.
29.Added on PARSELINE event, triggers before incoming/outgoing server
   lines are received/sent and allows a script to modify them.

   on *:PARSELINE:<in|out|*>:matchtext:echo $parsetype $parseline

   The line can be modified using the following command:

   /parseline -iotbqpnuN [text|&binvar]

   -i or -o = required to specify an in/out line.

   -t or -b = required to specify text or &binvar.

   -q = add a new line to the end of the in/out queue. It can be used
   inside and outside the PARSELINE event. New lines are processed
   after the script/event exits.

   -p = use with -q to indicate that the new line should trigger the
   PARSELINE event.

   -n = add a CRLF to the end of the line if it does not have one.

   -uN = where N is 0 or 1 and either disables or enables UTF-8
   encoding/decoding for the line.

   Notes:

   1) A script must check $parseutf to know whether mIRC will be UTF-8
   encoding/decoding a line. For outgoing lines, if $parseutf is $true,
   after the PARSELINE event, mIRC will UTF-8 encode the line before
   sending it to the server. You can prevent this by using -u0. For
   incoming lines, if $parseutf is $true, after the PARSELINE event,
   mIRC will UTF-8 decode the line before processing it. You can prevent
   this by using -u0.

   2) This feature should only be used, for example, to support features
   and/or protocols that mIRC does not already support, not to modify
   standard lines. mIRC maintains internal states based on incoming and
   outgoing lines. If lines are modified, mIRC may not work correctly. 

30.Fixed Options/Sounds Event Beeps beep value not being applied,
   resulting in repeated beeping during a flash event.
31.Extended script editor editbox limit to 1MB.
32.Fixed $intersect() bug that was rounding floating point values.

28/02/2015 - mIRC v7.41

Changes:
1.Added $calc() // floor divide operator.
2.Optimized script parser recursion to make better use of reserved
  stack space, enabling slightly deeper recursion.
3.Optimized SSL event processing speed.
4.Fixed $input() maximum editbox limit being off by one.
5.Extended hotlinks to correctly parse channel names in a channel
  message/notice prefix format.
6.Fixed file handling bug that would have caused mirc.ini to be reset
  if there was a drive error, such as the drive being full.
7.Fixed another while loop bug.
8.Fixed MDI window transparency bug under Windows 8.
9.Extended SSL support to allow connecting to SNI servers.

28/01/2015 - mIRC v7.39

Changes:
1.Extended /dll -u to allow use of a partial path.
2.Reverted Channels List window change so that modes are included in
  the listing again.
3.Fixed hash table bug that would have caused a gpf if mIRC was
  unable to allocate memory for the table.
4.Fixed INI file bug where mIRC was not unloading an INI file if it
  no longer existed, ie. when deleted by another application.
5.Added $comchar identifier to return the command prefix character.
6.Fixed connection timeout not being applied while a STARTTLS handshake
  is in progress.
7.Fixed script editor bug that caused popups text not to be displayed
  correctly in some situations.
8.Fixed confirm exit dialog bug that was not detecting if any DCC
  gets were in progress.
9.Updated many routines to use 32/64-bit compatible types as a first
  step in preparing for a 64bit version of mIRC.
10.Fixed icon loading routine bug that may have caused an incorrect
   icon size to be loaded.
11.Changed threaded critical sections from InitializeCriticalSection
   to InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount to improve performance
   in some contexts.
12.Fixed custom dialog limit text option not being applied to simple
   combo boxes.
13.Changed internal icon format for both the mIRC and connect tray
   icons.
14.Changed checkbox/radio button in Options/Lock/Disable features
   listbox and in custom dialog listboxes to use the correct Windows
   theme.
15.Fixed MDI windows not maximizing fully to the right in some contexts
   when main mIRC window is also maximized.
16.Fixed $* bug with // and other prefixes not being parsed correctly.
17.Updated file dialog routines, which includes the DCC Send file
   dialog, in preparation for switching to modern file dialogs in a
   future version.
18.Fixed /dcc send/chat/fserve bug when parsing the port number that is
   specified at the end of an ip address, ie. address:port.
19.Fixed Log and Buffer submenus in window system menus not being set
   correctly when toggling between mdi/desktop modes.
20.Fixed Shift-F3 bug under Wine that caused mIRC to freeze.
21.Extended file dialogs to include more file types in the file types
   listbox.
22.Fixed log reload bug that caused logs not to be reloaded before the
   start of a new year.
23.Added $chan(@N) wid support.
24.Added $window().idle property, returns idle state for window type.
25.Updated libraries to OpenSSL 1.0.1l.
26.Fixed while loop bug when multiple nested while loops are used on
   a single line separated by | line separators.
27.Fixed $reptok() bug that may have caused intermittent results.
28.Fixed $mode() bug that may have caused intermittent results.
29.Fixed empty parameter handling in $instok(), $puttok(), $remtok(),
   and $reptok().
30.Fixed $ini() bug that limited the index to a maximum of 9999.
31.Fixed log viewer bug that caused it to freeze during a log search
   if a log file contained a line longer than mIRC's maximum internal
   line length.
32.Fixed $mp3().bitrate bug that returned an incorrect value.

27/11/2014 - mIRC v7.38

Changes:
1.Added $envvar(N/name) identifier with .name and .value properties
  to return environment variables.
2.Added $notify identifier, returns $true or $false based on whether
  the notify list is enabled or disabled.
3.Fixed treebar status window folders being expanded when they should
  not be in some situations.
4.Updated the default DCC accept and ignore file types lists.
5.Extended /close -@ to handle @N window id values.
6.Fixed switchbar lines "auto" bug that was causing the switchbar to
  auto-expand incorrectly for large numbers of windows.
7.Fixed DCC Get/Fserve not using path of existing DCC Get window when
  resuming a failed transfer.
8.Fixed DCC Get window not being updated when a resume begins in some
  cases.
9.Fixed DCC Fserve get not applying "sort files by nickname into own
  folders" option for received files.
10.Added /close -axdnu switches, where a = apply to all server
   connections, x = apply to current server connection, d = single
   message window, n = notify list, and u = urls list.
11.Fixed DCC Chat speech bug that caused text in a DCC Chat window not
   to be spoken if speech was enabled only for that nickname.
12.Changed /server to search servers list using combination of server
   address, group, and description.

07/11/2014 - mIRC v7.37

Changes:
1.Fixed /window -dC bug not centering @window on the same the
  monitor as the main mIRC window.
2.Fixed Window Order dialog not allowing entry of long channel names.
3.Fixed $sockerr being incorrectly set in some socket events.
4.Fixed font display bug that caused mIRC to use a blank font if the
  font name was empty in the [fonts] section in mirc.ini.
5.Fixed channels list display bug when list reply includes channel
  modes. The modes are no longer displayed in the channels list.
6.Updated compiler options to improve buffer overrun defenses and
  enabled heap metadata protection on Vista onwards.
7.Added check for numeric 447 issued by some servers when a /list
  request is sent.
8.Added Windows entering sleep/hibernation detection at which point
  mIRC will immediately save unwritten INI settings as a precaution.
9.Added STARTTLS support using the CAP tls protocol.

  To initiate a secure connection to a STARTTLS capable server, you
  can use the /server -t switch or prefix the port number with a
  star sign, eg. *6667.

  On connecting to a server, mIRC now sends CAP LS and waits for a
  reply from the server before logging on. This allows mIRC to
  determine if STARTTLS is supported and to initiate STARTTLS before
  logon credentials are sent.

  If a server replies with a CAP reply, mIRC processes the CAP reply,
  initiates STARTTLS if supported, and then logs on. If STARTTLS is
  not supported, mIRC cancels the connection.

  If a server replies with numeric 451 (not registered), indicating
  it does not recognize CAP, mIRC cancels the connection.

  If a server does not reply at all, after a few seconds of waiting,
  mIRC sends a PING. If a server replies with a PONG or numeric 451,
  indicating it does not support CAP, mIRC cancels the connection.

10.Added /sockopen -t switch that initiates an SSL negotiation on a
   non-SSL connection, eg. as with STARTTLS, and a $sock().starttls
   identifier.
11.Fixed /sockread unsetting local variable instead of setting it to
   an empty value in some contexts.
12.Fixed /whois results being incorrectly displayed in @debug window
   if it happened to be active in some contexts.
13.Fixed SSL port cycling bug.
14.Added /sockwrite -a switch that prevents characters in the range
   0-255 from being UTF-8 encoded, as long as the line only contains
   characters in the range 0-255.
15.Fixed /server -nm not setting channels list filename correctly
   when server window is created.
16.Changed channels list "hide non-text channels" option to allow
   display of double-prefix channels.
17.Changed status window titlebar to include port number when not
   connected so you can see if the next connection attempt will be
   secure or not.
18.Fixed recent server connections not being saved to servers.ini file
   if the "move to top on connect" option was disabled.
19.Changed servers history menu to correctly show the history of
   servers you have connected to as opposed to servers at the top of
   the servers list. If you select "clear history", it now clears the
   history as expected.
20.Added ircs:// support to URL catcher.
21.Changed log view window, opened by logging dialog, so that it is
   positioned at the end of the switchbar/treebar window list.
22.Fixed switchbar/treebar display bug that caused windows to be
   displayed in the wrong order in some situations.
23.Changed $sound() to use the TagLib library for improved reading of
   MP3 and other media file formats.
24.Added Shift-F3 key support in Scripts Editor to search backwards
   through text.
25.Fixed timezone bug that caused timezones with non-whole hour offsets
   to be handled incorrectly.
26.Updated manifest files to indicate Windows 8/8.1 compatibility.
27.Extended $os identifier to detect 8.1.
28.Fixed dialogs display bug that caused dialogs opened via MDI window
   system menu to be offset incorrectly.
29.Fixed $did bug that caused $did to be reset inside an event in some
   situations.
30.Changed SSL accepted cipher list to ALL:!ADH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXP:
   !3DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!SRP:!DSS:!SSLv2:!LOW.
31.Added "ciphers" item to [ssl] section in mirc.ini that allows you
   to specify list of accepted ciphers.
32.Updated libraries to PCRE v8.36 and OpenSSL 1.0.1j.
33.Changed connection error messages to include actual SSL error
   messages provided by OpenSSL.
34.Changed $input() to allow entering of longer text and limiting text
   entry to maximum length.
35.Fixed text display spacing bug with zero width characters.
36.Fixed timezone/daylight savings bug that was affecting timestamping
   and time/date identifiers.

14/08/2014 - mIRC v7.36

Changes:
1.Fixed mark/copy text bug.
2.Updated the replace dialog in the script editor to remember its
  position for the current mIRC session.
3.Fixed /alias incorrectly halting script in some situations.
4.Fixed SSL "Unable to get certificate CRL" bug.
5.Reverted change to $sslversion so that it returns only the version
  number and excludes the "OpenSSL" prefix.
6.Updated libraries to OpenSSL 1.0.1i.

04/08/2014 - mIRC v7.35

Changes:
1.Fixed slow mark/copy text in windows that contain long lines.
2.Fixed listbox lines in Options dialog and other windows being
  vertically chopped when DPI settings are set to a high value of
  200% or more.
3.Reverted change to alias/identifiers when called recursively that
  caused the script to be halted with a recursion error warning.
4.Fixed listbox with checkboxes bug that caused checkboxes to be
  checked if you scrolled through them with the up/down keys.
5.Changed channel folder dialog so that it can now be resized.
6.Changed online timer dialog to display information more clearly.
7.Added /timer -zN switch to reset online timer, where N = 0 resets
  current and total time, N = 1 resets current time, and N = 2 resets
  total time.
8.Added $onlineserver to return current server online time and
  $onlinetotal to return total online time.
9.Fixed Shift+Tab beeping when switching to listbox in channel window.
10.Fixed $fullscreen not working on a non-primary monitor.
11.Updated SSL routines to allow both static and dynamic linking of
   OpenSLL with mIRC. mIRC now comes with OpenSSL 1.0.1h linked
   statically, so SSL is available without needing external DLLS.
   However, if mIRC finds a newer version of OpenSSL on your system,
   it will load that automatically.
12.Added SSL option that allows you to control whether the internal
   or external version of OpenSSL is loaded, by adding "load=N" to the
   [ssl] section in mirc.ini, where N = 0 means "use internal, external
   if newer", N = 1 means "use external always", and N = 2 means "use
   internal always". The default is 0. If no external is available, or
   there is an error loading external, internal is used.
13.Fixed SSL routines not checking if a private certificate was loaded
   either in the same file as the private key or as part of a separate
   certificate chain file.
14.Updated the find dialog in the script editor to remember its position
   for the current mIRC session.
15.Fixed favorites bug where if multiple networks are defined for a
   channel, and you click the join button, mIRC was only connecting to
   the first network. mIRC now connects to all of the networks defined
   for that channel and will open new status windows if necessary.
16.Fixed lock dialog bug that caused mIRC to ask for a password if the
   on startup option was enabled without setting a password.
17.Fixed $input() 'b' switch so that the dialog window close button is
   also temporarily disabled. This also applies to other dialogs that
   use this feature.
18.Fixed isignore only accepting types, now also accepts switches.
19.Fixed CAP server-time time value not being used when timestamping
   an event in the log file.

18/06/2014 - mIRC v7.34

Changes:
1.Fixed SendMessage() bug that prevented mIRC from processing incoming
  WM_MCOMMAND/WM_MEVALUATE messages correctly.
2.Changed right-click popup menu item order for Treebar, Switchbar and
  Toolbar for common menu items so that they match.
3.Added Switchbar font option to right-click popup menu.
4.Changed Switchbar to display active window tab in a slightly different
  color when a background picture for the Switchbar is set.
5.Changed tooltip display delay to use the Windows default tooltip
  display delay value.
6.Changed Clear History feature to not delete some interface settings,
  such as font settings for Treebar, Switchbar, and Scripts Editor and
  background picture settings for Treebar, Switchbar, and Toolbar.
7.Changed installer to default to upgrade mode if installing over an
  existing installation when using the /S silent option and added a
  /FULL command line option to force a full install.
8.Fixed DNS resolution bug that would have returned incorrect results
  during multiple simultaneous DNS requests in rare contexts.
9.Updated libraries to OpenSSL 1.0.1h.
10.Added Lock dialog option to disable SendMessage. If cMethod value
   16 is used for more useful error messages, returns 64 to indicate
   SendMessage is disabled. You can use $lock(sendmessage) to check
   if it is disabled.
11.Extended mouse wheel to work in interface elements, such as list
   boxes in dialogs, under the cursor even if they are not active.
12.Added /comlist command to list open com objects.
13.Added $servertarget identifier to return address specified in the
   /server command, which may not be the same as $server.
14.Added /play -x switch to treat the first line in the file as plain
   text even if it is a number.
15.Fixed custom dialog listbox with checkboxes not working correctly
   on Windows 8 tablet touch screens.

27/05/2014 - mIRC v7.33

Changes:
1.Fixed $ini() bug that resulted in an incorrect count being returned
  with a particular combination of subject and key parameters.
2.Added /var -n switch to make /var treat input as plain text.
3.Fixed /loadbuf bug that skipped empty lines when loading a topic.
4.Changed HTTP routines to use POST with form parameters instead of
  GET with URL parameters.
5.Fixed $line() with Channels List window so that it references the
  current search results instead of the full list.
6.Fixed while/if loop error reporting bug.
7.Fixed /hotlink -m menu not working correctly when a menu item is
  selected.
8.Fixed channel central limit bug that caused invalid limit values
  sent by the server to be stored incorrectly.
9.Fixed channel titlebar not displaying numeric modes.
10.Fixed /timer bug when using the [time] parameter that caused it
   to execute twice on reaching [time].
11.Extended server/history popup menu so that if you hold down either
   the shift or control key and click, it opens a new server window.
12.Changed /localhost -p UPnP method to use local interface address
   instead of 127.0.0.1.
13.Fixed on SOCKWRITE event not being triggered for UDP events when
   an error occurs.
14.Fixed editbox focus not being set on restored desktop windows.
15.Fixed script editor focus not being set if it is in MDI mode and
   you switch to a window outside of mIRC and then back to mIRC.
16.Fixed right-click popup menus in listbox windows not working on
   Windows 8 tablet touch screens when using press-and-hold.
17.Fixed INI file save bug that was causing a gpf if the INI file
   was already in use by another application.
18.Fixed full screen menubar bug that caused the menubar to be
   displayed incorrectly in a multi-monitor setup in some cases.
19.Added /fopen -x switch that opens a file for exclusive access. If
   another application is using the file, /fopen will fail.
20.Fixed /hsave to an INI file not clearing section before writing
   hash table items to it.
21.Changed Options/Display/Buttons option to allow "Small" or "Large".
   This now changes both the toolbar and switchbar size. The size is
   scaled based on screen resolution and DPI settings. If installed
   on a tablet, the large button size is chosen by default.
22.Fixed /echo -h bug that caused text not to hard-wrap.
23.Fixed $ctime() bug where "nd" values were not being recognized.
24.Updated libraries to PCRE v8.35 and OpenSSL 1.0.1g.
25.Fixed $msfile() bug when too many filenames were selected under
   Windows 7/8.
26.Fixed $sdir() bug that caused selected folder not to be scrolled
   into view when dialog is displayed under Windows 7/8.
27.Added math identifiers $atan2(y,x), $hypot(x,y), $log10(x),
   $sinh(x), $cosh(x), $tanh(x).
28.Fixed $onpoly() bug due to rounding errors that may have returned
   $true in rare cases where two lines are very close.
29.Added $intersect(x1,y1,x2,y2,x3,y3,x4,y4,method) identifier that
   returns the point at which two lines/rays intersect. The method
   parameter is optional. If not specified, two lines are compared.
   If specified, it can be lr, rl, rr = line/ray, ray/line, ray/ray.
30.Fixed /drawdot bug that caused it to be drawn slightly off center.
31.Added $input() 'f' switch that forces the return of $no/$cancel
   for edit/combo boxes.
32.Fixed SSL certificate password dialog box being displayed multiple
   times when multiple SSL connections are in progress.
33.Added display of "Connect cancelled" message when a connection
   attempt/retry cycle has ended completely.
34.Added a single, standard lock/password dialog for use by all
   features to replace multiple older implementations.
35.Fixed SendMessage() WM_MCOMMAND bug that would have returned a
   successful result to the calling application even if the command
   had in fact failed.
36.Added support for encrypting server passwords in servers.ini. Old
   plain text passwords are converted to the new format.
37.Changed List Channels dialog lock password so that a hash is stored
   in mirc.ini instead of the actual password. The old password is
   converted to the new format.
38.Fixed SSL certificate password dialog box bug that, on being
   displayed, caused controls to be enabled even if user was currently
   typing in another window.
39.Added another method for detecting Wine, as a backup to the current
   method.
40.Extended SendMessage() to enable executing a command in the context
   of a remote event. During a remote event, a $eventid identifier is
   set to a unique value to identify the event. This can be passed to a
   DLL which can then pass it back to mIRC using:

   SendMessage(mHwnd, WM_MCOMMAND, MAKEWPARAM(cMethod, cEventId), cIndex)

   This will cause the command/evaluation to execute in the context
   of the remote event identified by cEventId. If cEventId is 0, this
   indicates a non-remote event.
41.Extended SendMessage() to return information about mIRC using
   SendMessage(mHwnd, WM_MCOMMAND, -1, lParam) where lParam is -1 to
   receive the mIRC version number and -2 to receive the cMethod
   options that are supported.
42.Extended SendMessage() to support cMethod value 16 which causes
   SendMessage() to return more useful error values instead of just
   0 for failure and 1 for success. The return values are: 0 = success,
   1 = failure or'd with 2 = bad mapfile name, 4 = bad mapfile size,
   8 = bad eventid, 16 = bad server, 32 = bad script.
43.Fixed hotlinks display bug that affected how hotlinks were displayed
   in dialogs.
44.Fixed topics, modes, and several other events not including the year
   that the mode was set.
45.Changed About dialog to include check for update button.
46.Added installer check for limited user write access to the selected
   install folder when the "portable" option is enabled.
47.Fixed alias/identifier behaviour inconsistency when a recursive call
   is attempted which could have led to unexpected results. Both now
   halt the script with an error message instead.
48.Changed installer to include links to license and privacy policy.
49.Added CAP userhost-in-names support.
50.Changed CAP support so that CAP END will only be sent once the
   server has replied to all requests with ACK or NAK and requests have
   been processed.
51.Fixed timezone/daylight savings bug due to a hack around a bug in a
   previous version of the C runtime library.
52.Fixed all server messages, such as MOTD, not being timestamped when
   timestamp option is enabled.
53.Added CAP server-time and znc.in/server-time[-iso] support. Enabled
   automatically with a CAP request if server lists it in CAP LS. If a
   server message has a @time prefix with a UTC timestamp, $msgstamp
   will return this value.
54.Extended /echo -tN where N is the UTC value you want to use as the
   timestamp.
55.Added support for ircs:// secure links.
56.Improved irc/ircs:// links support in the windows registry by adding
   the following entries: Class\mIRCURL, Software\Clients\IM\mIRC, and
   Software\RegisteredApplications\mIRC.
57.Changed /timer to display seconds in /timers and in $timer().delay,
   if seconds are specified on command line.
58.Changed /window -c to not report an error if the non-@window it is
   closing does not exist.
59.Fixed status/channel/query right-click popup menu bug that caused
   clicked target not setting $1 correctly if /remote is off.
60.Fixed an SSL threading bug that may have caused SSL connections to
   gpf in some situations.
61.Fixed scripts editor file change monitor bug that may have caused
   some file change notifications to be missed.
62.Changed $ticks so that it uses GetTickCount64() if it is available.
63.Fixed /list command bug that caused the channels list to be saved
   to the wrong filename in the channels folder if you were connected
   to multiple servers.
64.Fixed $read()/play random number bias.
65.Changed $shortfn()/$longfn() to use more reliable method.
66.Fixed $input() display bug with long strings.

23/05/2013 - mIRC v7.32

Changes:
1.Fixed messages being text-wrapped incorrectly in some situations.
2.Fixed SSL certificate files specified in SSL options dialog not
  being loaded and used correctly when connecting to a server.
3.Fixed SSL disconnect bug where if an SSL connection failed, other
  SSL connections would be disconnected.
4.Updated libraries to zlib 1.2.8 and OpenSSL 1.0.1e.

26/04/2013 - mIRC v7.31

Changes:
1.Fixed editbox buffer bug that was not storing an edited line if you
  pressed the up key.
2.Fixed incremental search not working correctly in channels list
  window.
3.Changed email catcher to be more strict when determining whether
  something looks like an email address.
4.Fixed installer issue that may been the cause of popups.ini files
  being overwritten in some situations.
5.Added installer command line options /DESKTOP, /NODESKTOP, /STARTMENU
  and /NOSTARTMENU to enable/disable creation of shortcut icons.
6.Added "On Top" menu item to the View menu as users have difficulty
  finding it in the system menu when it is enabled.
7.Changed the "File changed" dialog so that it is closed automatically
  if a load/reload command applies to the same file.
8.Extended $encode/$decode to support blowfish. By default, the method
  is compatible with OpenSSL and uses CBC, key hashing, a random salt
  and PKCS#5 padding. The identifier format is:

    $encode(%var | &binvar, switches, key, [salt | iv])
    $decode(%var | &binvar, switches, key, [salt | iv])

  Where the switches are:

    method: c = cbc or e = ecb encryption (one or the other)
    key: l = literal key (optional, must be 56 characters)
    salt/iv: s = salt or i = iv or r = randomiv (all optional)
    padding: z = zeros, n = one and zeros, p = spaces (all optional)

9.Fixed SSL caching bug that may have required repeat acceptance of
  certficates on some networks. The cache now stores the IP address
  of the associated certificate.
10.Changed connection retry method so that if a connection attempt to
   an SSL server fails, and the server is part of an IP pool, the next
   retry will use the same SSL port.
11.Added DPI awareness to prevent Windows applying display scaling to
   mIRC. This should resolve the blurry interface and font issues when
   non-standard DPI display settings are used. A number of GUI-related
   features needed to be updated to cater for this change, eg. fonts
   now use internal defaults of points versus logical sizes. This may
   affect scripts that use dialogs and /draw on systems with non-
   standard DPI settings.
12.Fixed drag-drop bug that may have caused a gpf when switching
   windows between MDI/desktop mode.
13.Added MONITOR protocol support for the notify list. mIRC will use
   MONITOR automatically if it is listed in the 005 numeric.
14.Fixed "Check for update" dialog display bug that occurred when the
   connection to the website timed out.
15.Fixed $& indentation bug in scripts editor dialog.
16.Changed notify list to dynamically switch between WATCH/MONITOR and
   ISON when the number of nicks in the notify list is within/beyond
   the WATCH/MONITOR limit set by the server.
17.Optimized switchbar and treebar display speed.
18.Fixed switchbar "auto" lines feature being disabled when switchbar
   is repositioned. It is now only disabled if switchbar is resized
   vertically.
19.Fixed timestamp bug that may have caused a gpf in some situations if
   your timestamp was very long.
20.Fixed timestamp part of a message not being wrapped correctly when
   message is initially displayed in a window.
21.Fixed mIRC not handling mouse buttons correctly in some situations
   if the user's system is configured to swap mouse buttons.
22.Changed the way the window buffer is trimmed when it reaches the
   maximum number of lines set in the Options/Other dialog.
23.Added /close -lk to close channels list and links list windows. Note
   that channels list windows cannot be closed if currently listing.
24.Optimized SSL routines.
25.Added SSL identifiers $sslversion, $ssldll and $ssllibdll.
26.Added logging dialog option to enable/disable automatic logging
   of status windows.
27.Changed reload log feature so that it is enabled by default for
   channels and chats.

16/01/2013 - mIRC v7.29

Changes:
1.Fixed notify list right-click bug that caused the popup menu to not
  be displayed or to beep in some situations.
2.Fixed /vol -v not setting master volume on newer versions of Windows.
3.Added support for numerics 275 and 276 in whois replies on specific
  ircds.
4.Extended $os to detect Windows 8.
5.Fixed urls in own messages not being saved to the urls list.

08/12/2012 - mIRC v7.28

Changes:
1.Fixed help file issue that prevented /help command from jumping to
  the correct location on a help page.
2.Fixed /run command issue that affected backward compatibility with
  ambiguous parameter formats used in older scripts.
3.Fixed auto-hide nicklist not hiding when mouse is moved outside of
  the channel window in some contexts.
4.Changed Escape key so that it clears the current editbox if the
  "Escape key minimizes window" option is not enabled.
5.Fixed channel nicklist popup menu being wrongly displayed when right-
  clicking in nicklist area and nicklist is auto-hidden.
6.Fixed /exit -r bug not restarting mIRC when scripts editor dialog is
  open with unsaved files.
7.Updated libraries to zlib 1.2.7.
8.Fixed tips bug that caused tips to flicker briefly in view when the
  "Hide tips when locked" option is enabled and a message is received
  while mIRC is minimized and locked.
9.Fixed editbox buffer bugs that appeared in different contexts, such
  as when combinations of Control+Up/Down were pressed or the editbox
  contained multiple lines entered with the Alt+Enter key.
10.Changed SSL feature to store SSL certificate hashes cache in the
   servers.ini file instead of mirc.ini. Also, hashes are now stored
   for all certificates, good or bad. If a certificate is good but has
   changed since the last connection, a warning is now displayed.
11.Fixed /hotlink bug that prevented hotlink popup menus from being
   displayed.
12.Changed display bitmap cache to check if mIRC has been blocked from
   capturing screen buffer (which can happen with security software).
   If it has, mIRC reverts to slower, non-cache display method.
13.Fixed full screen menu item not being checked when full screen mode
   is enabled.
14.Fixed script editor bug that caused a freeze when saving popups to a
   non-INI file in certain situations.
15.Changed font dialog so that when "set as default" is checked, "use
   default" is automatically checked as well.
16.Fixed maximized window position not being saved when the "on startup
   minimize mIRC to tray" option is enabled.
17.Fixed socket port allocation bug that would have affected IPv6
   connections in some situations.

20/10/2012 - mIRC v7.27

Changes:
1.Added "Mark As Read" menu item to treebar, switchbar, toolbar and
  MDI popup menus to clear all flashing/highlighted window icons.
2.Extended $hfind() to allow saving of results in a @window (with
  listbox) or calling a command, using the format $hfind(name/N,
  text, N, M, @window | command).

03/10/2012 - mIRC v7.26

Changes:
1.Fixed SSL connection issue that prevented mIRC from connecting to
  servers with certificates that used unrecognized date formats.
2.Fixed hotlink display issue that caused text to flicker when hovering
  mouse over a link.
3.Fixed SSL support for Subject Alternative Names (SAN) when verifying
  whether a certificate is valid for the connection.
4.Fixed while loop bug when $& was used to combine conditions across
  multiple lines.
5.Fixed split long messages color bug.
6.Fixed on HOTLINK gpf bug when /rline was used to modify hotlink line.
7.Fixed reload logs feature not indenting lines correctly.
8.Fixed Find dialog seaching incorrect window if active window changed
  during a search.
9.Fixed help file bug that may have caused a gpf in some situations
  when mIRC exited while a help file was still open.
10.Fixed F1 help key not displaying the correct help page for some
   sections in the Options and Address Book dialogs.
11.Optimized tokenizing routine used throughout mIRC to split space
   delimited lines.
12.Fixed display bug that may have occurred in rare situations.
13.Updated to PCRE v8.31 library.
14.Fixed $file() not working with directories as in previous versions.
15.Fixed Address Book bug that prevented removal of an existing timed
   unignore.
16.Fixed channel nick list scrolling unnecessarily during a nick change
   if a nick was at the top of the list.
17.Changed $mouse.key to report that right mouse button is pressed in
   the "rclick" hotlink event.
18.Changed incremental search in nickname listboxes so that it works
   more like Windows explorer.
19.Fixed /run not handling single character input correctly.
20.Changed /localinfo -p to use a random UPnP port outside the first
   1056 services port range as some routers block these ports.
21.Changed on HOTLINK event so that /halt in one script does not affect
   HOTLINK events in other scripts, as with previous versions.
22.Fixed hotlinks not working with &local channel names.
23.Fixed reload logs bug that caused some lines at the end of the log
   to be excluded in some situations.
24.Fixed reload logs bug that resulted in far less than 500 lines being
   reloaded into a window.
25.Fixed $inellipse() bug caused by a compiler optimization issue.

13/06/2012 - mIRC v7.25

Changes:
1.Fixed /dline bug when deleting lines from windows containing a large
  number of lines.
2.Fixed switchbar/treebar blink icons bug that caused some window icons
  not to blink when they were set to /flash.

26/05/2012 - mIRC v7.24

Changes:
1.Fixed Control+Break key combination issue that caused it to stick
  if Control key was released first.
2.Fixed halt/haltdef in on RAWMODE and CTCP not working as in previous
  versions.
3.Fixed Tools/Received Files menu item not working under Wine.
4.Fixed hotlink feature not handling certain characters for addresses
  and channels.
5.Fixed /drawsave -bN switch not working with .bmp files.
6.Changed list channels "Hide non-text channels" feature to handle
  multiple channel prefixes.
7.Fixed CTCP script event being triggered in a different way to
  previous versions.
8.Fixed right-click on nick in channel window not selecting the nick
  in the channel nicklist.
9.Fixed /fwrite bug that caused a gpf when used with a failed /fopen
  handle.
10.Fixed 10053 connection issue that occurred on initially connecting to
   a server that closed the connection immediately.
11.Fixed DCC window bug that resulted in text not being displayed correctly
   when toggling MDI/desktop mode.
12.Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.1c library.
13.Fixed /flash bug so that flashing an MDI window will display the text
   message in the mIRC titlebar and flash the window's switchbar icon.
14.Fixed /filter -fs bug that prevented matchtext from being applied
   correctly when outputting to the status window.
15.Changed editbox so that it beeps at most ten times when the maximum
   message length is reached. The beep now also respects the "enable
   sounds" option in the sounds dialog.
16.Changed log view window to not open ontop by default, however you can
   now set the default ontop state through the system menu as well as
   save the window position.
17.Fixed on SENDFAIL/GETFAIL events not triggering if a send/get window
   is closed manually.
18.Fixed track urls bug that prevented it from working if the URL catcher
   feature was turned off.
19.Fixed away message not being displayed in the correct window during
   a /whois in some situations.
20.Fixed custom window not remembering font setting when MDI/desktop
   state of the window is changed.

19/03/2012 - mIRC v7.23

Changes:
1.Fixed DNS gpf bug that occurred in rare situations.
2.Fixed logging bug that occurred when channel/query windows were open
  and you disconnected and reconnected to a different network.
3.Changed connect behaviour so that all open channel/query windows are
  automatically closed if you connect to a different network.
4.Added $server(N,group) "group" parameter to allow listing by group,
  if N=0 returns total servers in group.
5.Changed installer to check if upgrading a "portable" installation and
  if so, it now enables the "Run as Portable" option by default.
6.Changed /timer handling so that it is now more precise/reliable.
7.Changed the way horizontal scrollbar is updated in channels, urls and
  links list windows, should now update faster.
8.Added support for channels list numeric 322 that includes channel mode
  in the topic. The mode is now displayed in its own column in channels
  list window.
9.Added better portable support for when mIRC is registered and used on
  more than one computer through file hosting services like dropbox.
10.Changed channel central dialog so that it flickers less during
   resizing and shows the close button in the top right corner.
11.Improved hotlink support and changed HOTLINK event to only require
   one event definition to work.

   on <level>:HOTLINK:<matchtext>:<*#?=!@>:<commands>

   $hotlink(item) where item can be: event, line, word, char, match

   Properties: pos, type

   The pos property used with line, word, char and match returns the
   position of the item
   The type property used with match returns the type of match

   /hotlink -md [@menu]

   The -m switch displays the popup @menu in the rclick event
   The -d switch is used with the -m switch and includes the default
          popup menu for a match type

   /return enables hotlink over the current word
   /halt disables hotlink and allows default processing

12.Updated to PCRE v8.21 library.
13.Fixed SendMessage() memory issue with mapped files.
14.Fixed scripts "file changed" dialog display bug with long filenames.
15.Changed on CONNECTFAIL event to allow access to $server.
16.Added $window().lb returns 0, 1 or 2 depending on whether window
   contains no listbox, listbox or side listbox.
17.Added a $starting identifier that returns 0 or 1 if mIRC is starting
   and a $exiting identifier that returns 0, 1 if mIRC is exiting and
   2 if mIRC is restarting.
18.Fixed a number of display scaling issues related to non-standard DPI
   settings in Windows.
19.Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.0f library.
20.Fixed SSL certificate validation bug that may have caused a gpf in
   some situations.
21.Changed "Shift key enables hotlinks" feature so that a hotlink is
   enabled/disabled the moment you press/release the Shift key without
   needing to move the mouse.
22.Fixed scrolling bug in windows with large numbers of lines.
23.Fixed listbox custom menu returning incorrect $0 value if no item
   is currently selected.
24.Fixed /disconnect and /quit error message when not connected.
25.Added Treebar font option to right-click popup menu.
27.Changed SSL warning dialog and added SHA1 fingerprint and Bubble-
   babble text.
28.Improved memory handling in event processing routine.
29.Fixed channel modes parsing bug when handling type B mode changes
   in CHANMODES=A,B,C,D.
30.Added support for incremental search in listboxes, matches against
   start of text in listbox lines.
31.Fixed /hinc and /hdec bug when used with -b switch.
32.Reverted /fopen -n change that affected older scripts.
33.Fixed @window custom icon not being set when toggling desktop mode.
34.Fixed $width()/$height() not handling quotes around the font name.
35.Fixed $line() not working with DCC chat windows in some situations.
36.Added /toolbar -v switch to enable loading PNG files that use
   alpha channel transparency.
37.Reverted regex change that caused some expressions to return wrong
   results.
38.Fixed Options dialog help button not working in some situations.
39.Fixed Control+Minimize password dialog issue when ALT or Windows
   keys are used while running under Wine.
40.Fixed /flash not handling certain window types.
41.Fixed fileserver not sending long file lists correctly.

13/10/2011 - mIRC v7.22

Changes:
1.Fixed /dns not showing result when non-existent nickname is specified.
2.Changed channel central dialog so that it can now be resized.
3.Fixed text chopping bug that caused outgoing messages to be chopped
  in some situations.

08/10/2011 - mIRC v7.21

Changes:
1.Fixed numeric 482 bug with text being changed to lowercase.
2.Changed "Minimize to tray" option default to off under Windows 7 due
  to the way Windows 7 hides all tray icons by default.
3.Fixed $timer().secs bug when /timer HH:nn was used.
4.Fixed /timer -h recursive call bug.
5.Fixed $regsubex() bug when handling empty substrings.
6.Fixed Alt/AltGr bug with different keyboard layouts.
7.Fixed tray icon mouse clicks bug where right/left mouse clicks were
  not processed correctly.
8.Added "Use compatibility mode" option to SSL dialog.
9.Fixed Servers List popup menu not processing selections correctly in
  some situations.
10.Fixed servers port cycling not working correctly when a prior
   connection used SSL.
11.Fixed $strip() bug stripping out all ^O control codes.
12.Fixed "scroll here" bug in window scrollbar popup menus.
13.Fixed MDI icon display bug when toggling full screen mode under
   Windows 7.
14.Fixed /list bug with min/max values on some networks.
15.Fixed $input() display bug with long strings.
16.Fixed /did bug with -vh and -g switches not working correctly when
   combined.

07/03/2011 - mIRC v7.19

Changes:
1.Fixed SSL certificate validation bug.

24/02/2011 - mIRC v7.18

Changes:
1.Fixed /window -a focusing bug with maximized MDI windows.
2.Fixed about dialog website header bug.
3.Fixed $findfilen/$finddirn bug with large numbers of files.
4.Fixed identd bug that may have prevented it working in some cases.
5.Updated to PCRE v8.12 library.
6.Fixed MDI client area display update bug with background pictures.
7.The "Check connection time out" option in the Connect/Options dialog
  has been changed to trigger more often. This should help resolve the
  10053 disconnect error that some users have reported.
8.Added support for numeric 481 when issuing a /list request.
9.Fixed /set bug when dividing by zero.
10.Fixed chm/hlp help file opening bug.
11.Fixed /cline not changing line colors in some cases.
12.Updated to OpenSSL 0.9.8r library.
13.Changed text display method slightly to resolve issues for users
   with certain graphics cards/drivers.

17/12/2010 - mIRC v7.17

Changes:
1.Fixed $sock() saddr/sport bug with UDP connections.
2.Updated to OpenSSL 0.9.8q and PCRE v8.11 libraries.

30/11/2010 - mIRC v7.16

Changes:
1.Fixed hadd/hinc/hdec -cuNz bug that was causing data corruption in
  hash tables.
2.Fixed server/dcc connection bug that was causing "Address already in
  use" error message as well as issues with the $portfree() identifier.
3.Fixed custom /dll gpf bug when exiting mIRC for DLLs that were using
  window/message hooking.
4.Updated to OpenSSL 0.9.8p library.
5.Fixed Alt+Minus key combination issue with screen readers that use
  Alt+NumberPadMinus for zooming.
6.Fixed window focus bug when zoomed windows were switched/closed.

08/11/2010 - mIRC v7.15

Changes:
1.Fixed window focus bug when mIRC is restored from a minimized state.
2.Changed /ban to allow more channel user modes to use it.
3.Changed $mklogfn() to only return a partial path when the "Make
  folders" option is enabled in the Logging dialog.
4.Fixed $sfile() and other file dialogs not returning file extensions
  if "Hide file extensions" is enabled in Explorer in Windows 7.
5.Changed /sockwrite to send data immediately instead of queuing it
  which should speed up transfers.
6.Added scrollbar buttons back to switchbar when many windows are open.
7.Changed the way mIRC exits when Windows is shutdown which should
  prevent lost mirc.ini settings for some users.
8.Changed CAP command to not display error message during logon for
  servers that do not support it.
9.Fixed idle color not being reset immediately when using /msg command.
10.Fixed hadd/hinc/hdec -cuNz bugs, should now work like set/inc/dec.

13/10/2010 - mIRC v7.14

Changes:
1.Fixed mouse drop menu event bug.
2.Fixed $isutf() bug.
3.Fixed /scon recursion gpf bug.
4.Changed /filter to halt only if an alias call returns an error.
5.Fixed /hadd -u bug.
6.Optimized text display caching.
7.Changed file handling to flush files to disk immediately.

29/09/2010 - mIRC v7.12

Changes:
1.Fixed timestamp %variable gpf bug.
2.Fixed /filter recursion gpf bug.
3.Changed /filter to halt processing if alias call fails.
4.Fixed event sounds not being triggered in some situations.
5.Fixed Wine default browser bug.
6.Changed UPnP port closing method for accepted connections.
7.Fixed SSL password dialog gpf bug.
8.Fixed SSL certificate password not being remembered during session.
9.Fixed /.cnick not hiding output.
10.Fixed op/oper check in /ban /pop /omsg /onotice /wallop commands.
11.Changed Alt key to not show menubar if shift/control is pressed.
12.Fixed /filter not being able to handle DCC chat windows.
13.Fixed $sfile() file selection issue under Windows 7.
14.Added support for the window id value, retrieved through the .wid
   property, to all commands, eg. if $window(name).wid returns N, you
   can use /echo @N text. Note that custom window names @N where N is a
   number are reserved for this use.
15.Fixed /sockudp port bug.
16.Fixed editbox menu "Paste" and "Delete" reversed positions.
17.Added check for old popups.ini file with incorrect format.

08/09/2010 - mIRC v7.11

Changes:
1.Fixed script editor scrollbar bug when window is resized.
2.Fixed font-linking bug with some combinations of characters.
3.Changed DCC switchbar buttons to display progress bar in different
  colors to indicate transfer status.
4.Improved DCC Send transfer speed.
5.Fixed $keychar bug in on KEYDOWN/KEYUP event.
6.Fixed $daylight bug.
7.Changed the way links are opened in default web browser.
8.Changed the way non-valid UTF-8 characters are handled in some cases.
9.Fixed $mp3() handling of Unicode tags.
10.Changed $read() to no longer halt script if file does not exist.
11.Changed the foregound/background color correction feature so that it
   reverts to the line event color.
12.Fixed $sock().saddr/sport bug when using UDP sockets.
13.Fixed $file().size returning 0 for non-existent file.
14.Fixed $ctime() not accepting a/p as shortcuts for am/pm.
15.Fixed text-wrapping display bug.
16.Fixed Find text scrolling too far with wrapped lines.
17.Fixed switchbar buttons focus bug.
18.Fixed /cnick on|off not displaying message.
19.Fixed /uwho copy button not using resources for item text.
20.Changed channels list to show ellipses for long channel names.
21.Fixed hotlink cursor bug with wrapped bold text.
22.Improved WM_PRINT/WM_PRINTCLIENT support.
23.Fixed /bread -t gpf bug.
24.Fixed split long messages action/color bugs.
25.Added new log files dialog, allows you to search log files and to
   view them in a window in mIRC.
26.Added urls list limit of 8192 links.
27.Fixed custom sockets SSL bug.
28.Added Clear History dialog to Tools menu, allows you to clear the
   history of a number of features in mIRC.
29.Fixed $cb() line length bug.
30.Fixed $exists()/$file() bug with INI files.
31.Added "UTF-8 encode/decode messages" option to Messages dialog.
32.Added /window -jN switch, sets buffer size for @window to N lines.
33.Changed "/exit -r" to use the -i -r -noreg and -portable switches
   from the original command line.
34.Changed DNS routines to only request IPv6 if you are using features
   that require it.
35.Fixed window -h bug.
36.Optimized text display routine, can now display far larger amounts
   of text without affecting display speed.
37.Optimized /loadbuf routine, can now load files much faster.
38.Optimized memory handling across all routines.
39.Fixed "Save Buffer" bug where wrapped lines were not being saved as
   single lines.
40.Changed /hinc and /hdec to preserve -u setting.
41.Changed /hadd -u0 to work like /set -u0.
42.Fixed SSL port cycling bug.
43.Fixed /editbox -n focus bug.
44.Extended /editbox -fN switch, where N = 1 sets focus and N = 2 uses
   editbox with current focus.
45.Added /logview <filename> command, views a text file in mIRC using
   the same method as the Log Files dialog.
46.Fixed AltGr key menubar bug in full screen mode.
47.Fixed reload logs bug with lines prefixed with color codes.
48.Updated libraries to PCRE v8.10 and zlib 1.2.5.
49.Extended maximum window buffer limit to 50000 lines.
50.Added support for ANSI italic control codes.

30/07/2010 - mIRC v7.1

Changes:
1.This is the first stable release of the new Unicode version of mIRC.

  The project to convert mIRC to Unicode has taken almost two years of
  development and testing and has required tens of thousands of changes
  to 150,000+ lines of source code. This has been the most complex and
  time-consuming update to mIRC since it was created in 1995, when it
  started out as a non-Unicode, 16-bit, Windows 3.1 application.

  Many areas of mIRC have had to be updated or re-written, from file
  handling to text processing, from display to memory allocation, from
  server communications to file transfers.

  mIRC should now be faster, more stable, and more compatible with
  the latest versions of Windows, and should be able to better handle
  the display and input of a variety of languages.

  In addition to being converted to Unicode, there are a few other
  notable changes:

  Improved Windows 7 compatibility
  More reliable INI file handling
  Faster text display/scrolling
  Speech support
  Improved interface design for a number of features
  Automatic text color correction
  Menubar Alt key show/hide feature
  Support for italic text and other font styles
  Optimized SSL routines
  Status window SSL connection icon
  IPv6 support
  Improved portable support
  Persistent channel history
  Digitally signed executables
  Automatic splitting of long channel/private messages
  Full screen display with F11 function key
  UPnP support
  Many bug fixes
  And more

  For a full version history of mIRC v7.x development, please see the
  list of changes starting with v7.0.

21/07/2010 - mIRC v7.08

Changes:
1.Fixed Unicode surrogates bug.
2.Changed Port dialog bind address editbox to allow entry of longer
  addresses.
3.Fixed Unicode and color codes text-wrapping bug.
4.Extended /tokenize to accept Unicode characters as delimiters.
5.Fixed log files corruption bug.

09/07/2010 - mIRC v7.07

Changes:
1.Fixed /showmirc -s bug with maximized windows.
2.Fixed INI routines quote handling bug.
3.Fixed F11 full screen gpf bug when many windows are open.
4.Changed folder selection dialog to allow editbox input.
5.Fixed /timer -h consistency bug.
6.Fixed window vertical scrollbar bug when lines were trimmed due to
  exceeding maximum buffer size in some situations.
7.Fixed transfer windows displaying & characters as accelerators.
8.Changed script editor to display message when desktop setting is
  changed.
9.Fixed iswm bug where * wildcard was not matching $null.
10.Added $mouse.cx/cy properties to return cursor position relative
   to primary monitor.
11.Fixed /bwrite file pointer bug.
12.Fixed $window().dx/dy bug.

28/06/2010 - mIRC v7.06

Changes:
1.Changed "Split long channel/query messages" option to handle action
  messages and to ignore other CTCP messages.
2.Updated to OpenSSL 0.9.8o library.
3.Changed CAP event handling so that scripts can no longer prevent the
  CAP reply from being sent.
4.Fixed find text dialog not matching text in wrapped lines.
5.Fixed /timer parameter error handling and display.
6.Fixed display width of some characters when using monospace fonts.
7.Fixed hotlink cursor not being updated in some situations.
8.Added support for full screen display with F11 function key,
  /showmirc -f switch and $appstate value "full".
9.Fixed switchbar separator display bug.
10.Fixed main window system menu bug when main menubar is hidden.
11.mIRC now remembers if MDI windows were maximized on exit and opens
   them maximized on next startup.
12.Fixed /signal -n recursion gpf bug.

16/06/2010 - mIRC v7.05

Changes:
1.Extended editbox history to 100 lines.
2.Extended /sockread to read more than 4096 bytes at a time.
3.Changed INI routines to enclose data in quotes if it contains any
  non-printable characters, ie. less than $chr(32).
4.Fixed INI routines not saving comments within topics correctly.
5.Fixed INI routines bug that would have resulted in a random gpf
  in some situations.
6.Extended $mask() to handle IPv6 addresses.
7.Fixed $gmt and other time-related identifiers to correctly include
  timezone and daylight offsets.
8.Fixed $asctime(zzz) bug.
9.Added /localinfo -p switch, uses UPnP to look up and set your local
  info settings.
10.Changed $utfencode()/$utfdecode() to handle the C script/codepage
   parameter correctly in text that contains Unicode and UTF-8.
11.Fixed variables not being sorted correctly when sort button is used
   in script editor.
12.Added /bwrite -t switch, interprets text value as plain text and
   does not evaluate &binvar variables.

28/05/2010 - mIRC v7.04

Changes:
1.Added UPnP support. The Ports dialog allows you to enable UPnP
  support for retrieving your external IP address, the identd server,
  DCC connections, and the DCC server. The first three options are
  enabled by default.

  mIRC marks UPnP ports that it opens as "mIRC". It closes UPnP ports
  the moment they are no longer needed.

  If mIRC is connecting to multiple servers at the same that use both
  IPv4 and IPv6, the UPnP port for the identd server will only be able
  to handle either IPv4 or IPv6 at any one time, since a UPnP port can
  only be bound to one address.

  If you make any changes to the UPnP options in the Ports dialog, mIRC
  performs a quick check to see if UPnP is available and will warn you
  if it is not.

2.Added /socklisten -p switch to enable UPnP support for a listening
  socket.
3.Changed hotlink feature to handle more formats.
4.Fixed /clear -g switch bug.
5.Optimized display routine to use bitmap caching more efficiently.
6.Changed the way a server connection is closed after sending /quit to
  make disconnection more robust/graceful.
7.Added check for empty servers list. If servers list is empty, mIRC
  looks for the "defaults" folder and copies the servers.ini from
  there to the data folder.

20/05/2010 - mIRC v7.03

Changes:
1.Changed DCC Send/Get windows to show long progress bar when window
  is maximized.
2.Changed DCC Send/Get switchbar buttons to display progress bar in
  black during transfer and grey when finished.
3.Fixed /fseek line matching bugs.
4.Optimized BOM-checking in file routines, should have minimal impact
  on read/write speed now.
5.Fixed $dns().ip bug when resolving an IP address.
6.Changed Control+N back to shortcut for channel switching.
7.Added "Split long channel/query messages" option to Messages dialog.
  If a message is long enough that it might be chopped by the maximum
  server line length, it is sent as mutliple lines.
8.Fixed font bug with reading font settings from mirc.ini.
9.Optimized display routine, should be faster in some situations.
10.Changed richedit editbox support back to riched20.dll since it
   seems to be faster and more reliable overall.
11.Optimized the way scripts are loaded into script editor editbox.
12.Fixed INI file handling bug when reading section/item/data that
   are enclosed in quotes.
13.Fixed hotlink feature not handling single-word hostnames.
14.Changed $utfencode/$utfdecode to return input text if they are
   unable to encode/decode the text instead of returning an error.
15.Changed the way the file routines set end-of-file and error, should
   behave more like older versions now.
16.Added /raw -n switch to prevent characters in the range 0-255 being
   UTF-8 encoded when sent to the server. Also added a $rawbytes
   identifier that returns the incoming server message prior to any
   parsing/decoding.

01/05/2010 - mIRC v7.02

Changes:
1.Added Unicode/UTF-8 BOM support to file routines. This applies to all
  files that are read or written as text, including INI files.
2.Changed DCC Send/Get windows to allow full filename to be viewed when
  window is resized.
3.Changed DCC Get to open download file with exclusive write access.
4.Added support for detecting Wine so that mIRC can use alternative
  code for features that need it. Around fifteen separate workarounds
  were implemented. Features that could not be made to work reliably
  (richedit editbox support and playing mp3 and mid files) are now
  disabled.
5.Changed mouse wheel scroll method in the script editor editbox to
  allow faster/smoother scrolling.
6.Fixed system shell DDE messages bug.
7.Changed font-linking implementation slightly, should be faster and
  support more characters.
8.Added support for /dns $server to fill $serverip for SOCKS5 users,
  though note that this results in a DNS leak.
9.Fixed treebar background update bug.
10.Optimized display routine, should now be faster when displaying
   control codes.
11.Fixed $regml().pos bug.
12.Added Names dialog back to Display options dialog.
13.Fixed /sockudp -k bug.
14.Fixed line colors parsing bug when reloading log files.
15.Fixed query flood check bug.

15/04/2010 - mIRC v7.01

Changes:
1.Changed the way fonts are set for editboxes in windows and in the
  script editor. This should resolve issues for users who are seeing
  the font change when they enter text.
2.Changed the foregound/background color correction feature so that it
  no longer applies if a ^K background color is specified.
3.Fixed /filter gpf bug.
4.Fixed /fopen gpf bug.
5.Changed $input() icons default sound behavior.
6.Fixed text display bug where last character was not entirely visible
  in some situations with certain fonts.
7.Changed toolbar and switchbar to not display separators when
  background picture is used.
8.Fixed timestamp bug where the timestamp was not being displayed if a
  Unicode character was used in the format string.
9.Changed numeric 451 "You have not registered" message for the "CAP"
  request to no longer be displayed when connecting to a server.
10.Fixed DDE support. Most applications, such as web browsers, can only
   reply to ANSI DDE requests, so mIRC now sends DDE requests in ANSI
   as opposed to Unicode. mIRC can now reply to both Unicode and ANSI
   DDE requests.
11.Changed identd default behavior when choosing userid from email
   address or identd userid field.
12.Fixed $ini()/loadbuf combination bug that was fixing/updating an
   incorrectly formatted INI file even though it was only being read
   by the script.
13.Changed /filter to allow output to the NUL device.
14.Fixed "End of /MOTD" message not being displayed in some cases.
15.Fixed /speak not working with older voices/engines.
16.Fixed /sockwrite -n and /write -a CRLF bugs.

02/04/2010 - mIRC v7.0

Changes:
1.mIRC is now a Unicode application.
2.mIRC now uses its own custom INI routines to ensure more reliable
  INI file handling. They should work almost identically to the
  standard Windows INI routines.
3.Changed the way microsoft agent is detected by checking for folder
  instead of loading agent to cater for Windows 7 issue.
4.Added a bitmap cache to speed up window text display. Depending on
  the font you are using, your cleartype settings, and/or your cpu
  speed, you should see a significant increase in display speed of text
  in all windows.
5.Fixed script editor not filling as much of the editbox buffer as
  it could (up to maximum size of 500k) when reading a file.
6.Updated to PCRE library v8.02 and enabled Unicode/UTF-8 support.
7.Fixed /drawrot gpf bug.
8.Fixed tooltips cpu usage bug under Windows 7.
9.Fixed switchbar/toolbar button sizes under Windows 7.
10.Fixed multi-monitor popup menu bug when second monitor was placed
   to the left of the main monitor.
11.Now using gdi+ for picture loading/saving.
12.Fix internal http routines not handling redirects correctly.
13.Updated to SAPI5+ speech and voice commands to make them work with
   Windows 7.
14.Added Speech dialog to Sounds dialog. This replaces the Agents dialog
   which is no longer supported by Windows 7. If mIRC notices that
   Agents are available on your version of Windows, the Agents dialog
   option will still be available.
15.Added /speak -spclu [speed] [pitch] [text] command which speaks the
   specified text, where the switches are:

   -s = speed (0 to 100)
   -p = pitch (0 to 100)
   -c = clear all queued lines
   -l = apply lexicon settings in speech dialog.
   -u = apply option settings in speech dialog

   You can use $speak(N) to list all lines that are currently queued
   for speaking through the /speak command. If N = 0, returns total
   number of queued lines.

16.Extended maximum incoming server line length from 600 to 1024
   bytes.
17.Fixed default notify sounds not being saved with relative path.
18.Fixed popup loading bug when a file contains empty lines.
19.Fixed on CLOSE event bug with status window requiring * prefix.
20.Extended on CLOSE event to work with channels.
21.Changed on OPEN/CLOSE events to handle parameters like other
   similar events. This should not affect existing scripts.
22.Added script editor file menu options "Rename" and "Delete".
23.Added [about] portable=[yes|no] item to mirc.ini that allows you
   to enable portable mode more easily on usb drives.
24.Changed mouse wheel routine to correctly handle faster/slower
   scrolling.
25.Added CAP LS protocol support. mIRC now sends "CAP LS" as the first
   line when connecting to a server before sending NICK/USER to logon.
   Currently enables "multi-prefix" and "packet-size=1024" if they are
   available.
26.Fixed listbox item height in Control/Color/Highlight dialogs.
27.Fixed text display being clipped incorrectly when using certain
   fonts.
28.The Channels List window now updates the horizontal scrollbar
   on-the-fly to avoid the display freeze after listing a large number
   of channels.
29.Fixed some controls not being disabled in Lock dialog when lock is
   enabled.
30.When clicking reset button in Colors dialog, colors are now reset
   to the most recent active settings for that theme.
31.mIRC now skips sending "mode +i" on connect if it has already been
   set automatically by the server.
32.Changed the design of some of the dialogs in the Options dialog,
   the DCC Send/Get dialogs, and others.
33.mIRC no longer requires Full Name and Email Address to be filled
   in the connect dialog and sends default values if left empty.
34.On connecting to a server, if both nick and alternative are in use
   mIRC appends a random number to your nickname and tries again.
35.Changed /debug windows to no longer interpret colors. They now
   display control codes as plain text.
36.Changed USER/NICK logon method to comply with RFC2812.
37.Changed switchbar DCC Send/Get button progress bar, now displays a
   small bar under the text.
38.Optimized Unicode font-linking routines.
39.Now using Visual Studio 2008 to compile mIRC.
40.Added WM_PRINTCLIENT support to a number of controls including the
   toolbar, switchbar, and treebar.
41.Renamed "download" folder to "downloads" in line with other folders.
42.Fixed /debug windows log menu not being set correctly.
43.Fixed mIRC main window system menu not being set correctly when
   the menbuar is disabled.
44.Renamed "Firewall" dialog "Proxy". Replaced /firewall command with
   /proxy although /firewall is still supported.
45.mIRC now disables the proxy if it is enabled in the proxy dialog
   but no address is provided and a SOCKS_HOST environment variable
   does not exist.
46.Added menbuar auto-show/hide feature that displays the menubar
   when you press the Alt key and hides it afterwards.
47.Keyboard focus now automatically switches to the treebar if all
   other windows are minimized.
48.Fixed PCRE gpf bug when expression results in heavy recursion.
49.Changed switchbar to display transparent buttons when a background
   picture is selected.
50.Added support for all available font styles, such as italic and
   semi-bold, in font dialog.
51.Added support for Control+I key combination to make italic text
   using control code 29.
52.Added support for DLLs that use Unicode routines. By default mIRC
   assumes that DLL routines are ANSI for backward compatibility.
   However a DLL can enable Unicode support by setting mUnicode to
   TRUE in the LOADINFO structure:

   typedef struct {
     DWORD  mVersion;
     HWND   mHwnd;
     BOOL   mKeep;
     BOOL   mUnicode;
   } LOADINFO;

53.Added SendMessage WM_MEVALUATE/WM_MCOMMAND support for Unicode.
   By default mIRC assumes that mapped file data is ANSI for backward
   compatibility. However an application can "or" the value 8 in the
   cMethod parameter to specify Unicode data.
54.Changed display behavior for a number of dialogs, such as the DCC
   Send/Get dialogs, so that buttons are now disabled for a short time
   when the dialogs are displayed to prevent accidental typing. If the
   user is typing, the buttons remain disabled until the user stops.

   Added a 'b' switch to $input() and an "option disable" property to
   custom dialogs that enables this behavior.

55.Fixed treebar display bug when displaying DCC window names.
56.Changed script editor Order dialog to automatically select the
   active script in the listbox on opening.
57.Updated editbox in all windows and script editor to use richedit 4.1
   msftedit.dll for improved Unicode support. If not available reverts
   to riched20.dll.
58.Changed line numbering method in script editor, uses more reliable
   method that is independent of editbox.
59.Changed status window icon to display a yellow lock when on a secure
   connection using SSL.
60.Fixed Control+K color dialog centering bug.
61.Changed servers list sorting method so that the networks listed in
   the [networks] section of servers.ini are now placed at the top.
62.Changed DCC Send/Get transfer windows default font, now uses the
   system dialog font. Also switched to appropriate system font for
   measurements in features such as $input() and popup menus.
63.Changed design of DCC Send/Get transfer windows, interface is now
   clearer and the display updates once a second.
64.Changed flood protection to begin working only after receiving the
   first numeric to prevent logon issues in some situations.
65.Changed design of the File Type warning dialog, now clearer and also
   shows the file extension that was ignored.
66.Optimized the way line indentation works, such as for /echo -iN,
   and other displayed lines.
67.Improved tab and indent spacing measurement method for both fixed
   and non-fixed width fonts.
68.Improved text-wrapping at whole word boundaries, and now wraps at
   both spaces and commas.
69.Numeric 422 "MOTD file is missing" message is no longer displayed
   when first connecting to a server.
70.Fixed proxy errors not being displayed correctly in some situations.
71.Added a bind listbox to the Connect/Options/Ports dialog that lists
   all active networks interfaces for easy selection. It still allows
   you to enter an IP address as well.
72.Updated /dns command, now multi-threaded, resolves concurrently,
   and can return both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. By default, /dns only
   returns IPv4. You can use the switches -46 to return a combination
   of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
73.Added support for IPv6 connections. By default, mIRC will always use
   IPv4, so IPv6 support must be explicitly enabled using one of these
   methods:

   1) Enable IPv6 support in the Connect/Options/Ports dialog. This
   allows mixed IPv4 and IPv6 connections, with IPv6 taking priority
   in DNS resolution. This means that if you try to connect to a server
   that has both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses, mIRC will try IPv6 first.

   2) The bind option in the Connect/Options/Ports dialog. If you
   specify an IPv4 or IPv6 adapter/address, DNS resolution and all
   connections will be made based on the adapter/address type. If you
   explicitly specify an IP address for a connection, such as a /server
   or DCC connection, it overrides this setting.

   3) The /server command with switches -46 to force DNS resolution
   to return either IPv4, IPv6, or both. If you specify an IP address,
   it overrides the switches. The server window will use the requested
   DNS method for all subsequent connections until you change it with
   the /server command.

   Note: in order to use IPv6, both your version of Windows and your
   Internet connection must support IPv6.

74.Added $iptype(text) identifier, returns "ipv4" or "ipv6" if text is
   is a valid IP address format. With IPv6 addresses, the properties
   .compress and .expand can be used.
75.Added cue text (optional) to Connect dialog for user name and email
   address.
76.Extended $portfree(port,ip) so that you can specify an ip address.
   If not specified, all active interfaces are checked as before. An
   adapter name can also be used instead of an ip address.
77.Added $bindip(N|ip) identifier. If N is specified, lists active
   network adapters with properties .name, .ip, .loopback. If an ip
   address is specified, returns best adapter for connecting to that
   ip address.
78.Updated to OpenSSL 0.9.8n library.
79.Updated installer to offer a portable install option that can be
   used to run mIRC on a USB flash drive.
80.Added support for whois numeric 729.
81.Added "Invalid certificate" disconnect message in the event of an
   SSL connection failing due to an invalid certificate. If there is a
   DNS pool, mIRC will now continue to retry the connection.
82.Changed /localinfo to report an error if you try to use an invalid
   switch. Also fixed /localinfo not setting/saving the local info
   results correctly across server windows.
83.Fixed hotlink shift-key display bug.
84.Fixed logfile bug when window is switched between MDI/desktop.
85.Added $file().sig property, checks digital signature of a file.
86.Added check for foreground/background colors in control codes in
   text. If they are the same, the foreground color is changed to
   ensure the text is visible.
87.Changed color dialog behavior: if you delete all schemes, the
   default schemes are added back to the list.
88.Changed position of history menu in file and favorites menus.
89.Added /close -t switch, closes all status windows. If used with -i
   switch, closes only if not connected/connecting to a server.
90.Channels history is now saved across sessions to the [chanhist]
   section in mirc.ini.
91.Fixed tips display bug that caused tip width to be smaller than
   necessary, shortening the title text.
92.Fixed SSL warning dialog bug, was not showing the actual error
   message in some cases when a certificate error was detected.
93.Fixed /var gpf bug.

17/10/2008 - mIRC v6.35

Changes:
1.Fixed nickname bug where very long nicknames (hundreds of characters
  in length) sent by the server would cause mIRC to gpf.
2.Updated to PCRE v7.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8i libraries.
3.Added script editor option to disable line numbers.
4.Fixed /toolbar bug where setting a bitmap for a default button was
  not working correctly.
5.Added custom dialog support for "rich" editbox property that allows
  an arbitrary "limit" on the amount of text.
6.Fixed window listbox display bug when moving the horizontal scrollbar
  all the way to the right.

08/08/2008 - mIRC v6.34

Changes:
1.Fixed if/while bracket priority bug which affected the parsing of
  if/while statements.
2.Fixed text display bug where the last character in a line was being
  chopped off.
3.Changed the fast update display method.
4.Fixed tips display bug.
5.Fixed copy messages to query bug.
6.Fixed /drawrot rounding error bug.
7.Fixed treebar/switchbar server sorting display bug.

18/07/2008 - mIRC v6.33

Changes:
1.Fixed $istok() not returning error if too many parameters supplied.
2.Fixed /scon returning wrong error message.
3.Fixed window positions not being saved correctly for certain types
  of windows.
4.Fixed tab completion issue with long text/identifier values.
5.Fixed Channel Central dialog excepts/invites bug, now looks for +eI
  modes in the CHANMODES token as well as EXCEPTS and INVEX tokens.
6.Fixed reload logs feature displaying session information twice on
  reloading a log file.
7.Fixed $calc() returning +/-0 in some situations.
8.Improved handling of hotlinks enclosed in brackets.
9.Fixed server ports bug when using toolbar connect button.
10.Fixed color display bug in tips title/message text.
11.Fixed text display bug due to incorrect text width measurement with
   some fonts/characters, now using new method to measure text width.
12.Changed $window().sbstate/tbstate to return button status even if
   the corresponding bar is hidden.
13.Fixed $hfind/$regml regex bug.
14.Fixed channels list window focus bug when getting list.
15.Fixed script editor editbox warning to take account of long wrapped
   lines.
16.Fixed window focusing bug in certain situations.
17.Fixed /toolbar load/save bug with @window parameters.
18.Fixed /did -d CRLF bug.
19.Fixed picture @window popup menu bug under Vista.
20.Added support for the transfer of files larger than four gigabytes.
   This required the following extension to the DCC transfer protocol:
   If mIRC sees that it is sending or receiving a file with a size
   larger than a 32bit value, it sends and expects to receive 64bit
   acks. In all other respects, the protocol is unchanged. Note that
   all previous versions of mIRC are unable to either send or receive
   such large files.
21.Changed file transfer CPS calculation method, now reflects the real
   average CPS over the last few seconds.
22.Improved the way the "Total Max Cps" feature throttles transfer
   speeds.
23.Increased the maximum allowed DCC Send packet size. This may or may
   not improve speed depending on your connection type.
24.Fixed DCC Send/Get bug where files of zero bytes in size could not
   be transfered.
25.Changed DCC Send so that it now always sends packets ahead of acks.
   This means that even if it receives no acks at all, mIRC will still
   transfer the file. If "Fast Send" is enabled, mIRC will attempt to
   send packets as fast as it can.
26.Fixed regex identifiers hiding output of called identifiers by
   default - they now require . prefix in calling alias.
27.Fixed /server switches not being remembered on an automatic retry
   connection attempt after a disconnection.
28.Fixed server connection not remembering SSL status if you disconnect
   and then reconnect to a server.
29.Fixed switchbar display button-sorting display bug.
30.Added $window().tbtext for window treebar text.
31.Added /editbox -vqN switches, where -v prevents the editbox contents
   from being changed and -qN enables/disables/toggles second editbox.
32.Added /var -g switch, sets global variable values.
33.Added $timer().pause property.
34.Added $input() 'm' switch which allows you to include multiple "text"
   parameters and to display them in a combobox. The first text item is
   the default item, the rest are the items in the list.
35.Fixed /log on command bug not using logs folder.
36.Optimized text mark/copy routine.
37.Added track urls warning when feature is enabled via system menu.
38.Changed Unicode display method slightly - mIRC now preloads the cache
   with the default system Unicode font and various other Unicode fonts
   if they are found on your system.
39.Fixed if/while bracket parser bug.
40.Added $chan/query/send/get/chat .idle properties.
41.Added editbox "automatic" lines feature to display/options dialog
   that dynamically changes the size of the primary editbox to show
   all of your typed text, up to half the size of the window.
42.Extended /window -eN switch where 0 = single, 1 = multi, 2 = auto,
   and 3 = default.
43.Changed Control+Home/End key behavior so that they move the cursor
   if you are editing text in a multi-line editbox, otherwise they
   scroll the display buffer.
44.Updated to OpenSSL 0.9.8h library.
45.Changed Enter key behavior in multi/auto editbox so that it sends
   a line when pressed in the middle of a line. To insert a line you
   can use the Alt+Enter key combination.
46.Changed Status Window editbox to reflect single/multi/auto editbox
   settings.
47.Fixed UTF-8 text-wrapping display bug.
48.Fixed SSL certificate caching bug when maximum cache size exceeded.

21/05/2008 - mIRC v6.32

Changes:
1.Fixed /did -o CRLF bug.
2.Fixed /log -f not being able to handle quotes.
3.Fixed /toolbar default icons bug with toolbar background pictures.
4.Fixed notify icon white pixels bug with a black background in the
  treebar.
5.Fixed script editor buttons not displaying icons when running under
  Windows Vista Classic Theme.
6.Fixed listbox height in SSL dialog.
7.Fixed script initialization warning bug.
8.Changed /drawpic bitmap allocation method to speed up @window
  displays.
9.Fixed $tip help file bug.
10.Fixed /toolbar not being compatible with toolbar buttons bitmap.
11.Updated to PNG 1.2.29, PCRE v7.7, and OpenSSL 0.9.8g libraries.
12.Standardized and extended string lengths throughout mIRC to allow
   the use of longer variables, channel and nick names, and other
   items.
13.Optimized $strip() control codes routine, used through-out mIRC.
14.Added "Check for Updates" item to Help menu. mIRC also checks for
   updates once a day on startup. This can be turned off in the updates
   dialog.
15.mIRC now displays the wait cursor when dialogs are opened and closed
   as a busy indicator, mainly for when mIRC is run from a USB drive.
16.Fixed /drawrot -b background color bug.
17.Fixed text display moving backwards bug with certain fonts.
18.Fixed mouse wheel handling to properly process slow/fast scrolling
   with high resolution mice.
19.Fixed status window log menu bug on a clean install.
20.Fixed blank lines in window listboxes not being displayed correctly.
21.Added /set -k switch, keeps current -uN setting for a variable. Also
   added $var().secs, returns unset time.
22.Fixed handling of negative range values in token identifiers.
23.Added $reptok() and $remtok() support for N = 0 to apply to all
   matching items.
24.Fixed $* bug when used with $() identifier.
25.Fixed script editor editbox responding to control+mouse wheel to
   change font size, can only change through font dialog.
26.Fixed /tips setting not being remembered on a restart.
27.Fixed listbox windows display bug when using double-space/paragraph
   spacing.
28.Fixed double-space/paragraph settings not being set correctly when
   a window is first opened.
29.Fixed /drawcopy -t bug.
30.Fixed $mp3() handling of Unicode tags.
31.Added support for network-specific window position saving.
32.Changed INI update routine, now only writes an item to the file if
   it is in fact different in the file. This minimizes file updates.
   Added mainly for USB drive users.
33.Changed reload log feature to only reload a maximum of 500 lines.
34.Changed window buffer routine so that it removes whole lines from
   the top of the buffer instead of partial lines.
35.Fixed script editor shortcuts not working when other dialogs open.
36.Fixed MDI flickering bug when "Move status window to top" option
   is enabled in Window Order dialog.
37.Fixed treebar focus bug when selecting item in treebar while mIRC
   is not active application.
38.Fixed $mp3() handling of malformed mp3 headers.
39.Fixed multi-byte text-wrapping display bug.
40.Fixed minor bug in UTF-8 selective encoding routine.
41.Changed Channel Central design slightly. Checkboxes are disabled
   if you are not an op and the Excepts and Invites buttons are
   disabled if numeric 005 does not list EXCEPTS and INVEX tokens.
42.The multibyte editbox is now enabled by default for new installs.
43.Changed tab completion so that it leaves the original text intact
   if it evaluates to $null.
44.Fixed /drawcopy not reporting an error in some situations.
45.Fixed MDI window background display bug.
46.Added /dialog -g <name> <newname> to change dialog name.
47.Added /menubar /toolbar /switchbar /treebar [on | off] commands
   and $menubar, $toolbar, $switchbar, $treebar identifiers. Also
   added $compact identifier to indicate normal/compact mode.
48.Fixed window scrollbar bug with large numbers of lines.
49.Fixed script editor toolbar button not reflecting on/off settings
   for events in some situations.
50.Fixed text in custom @windows being chopped at tab stops.
51.Added /window -M switch, chops text at tab stops.
52.Fixed random delay auto-op/voice bugs.

01/11/2007 - mIRC v6.31

Changes:
1.Fixed tooltips bug in toolbar.
2.Fixed /background window name bug.
3.Fixed remote.ini scripts folder bug.
4.Fixed dns pool message bug during connect retry.
5.Fixed notify window taking focus every time you connect to a
  server. The notify window also no longer automatically closes
  when you disconnect from all servers.
6.Fixed tips control codes bug.
7.Fixed if/elseif error display bug.
8.Fixed /window -dh not hiding desktop window.
9.Changed $tip() $null parameters so that they are now optional.
10.Fixed script editor Windows taskbar display bug.
11.Fixed /dll gpf bug with self-calling dlls.
12.Fixed on START event not being triggered before all other events
   on startup for loaded scripts.
13.Fixed while loop break/continue bugs.
14.Fixed /writeini error handling bug.
15.Fixed ial not being updated by protect/ignore/etc. commands.
16.Added @wid support to /setlayer.
17.Added /tips [on|off] and $tips identifier.
18.Added "Hide tips when locked" option to lock dialog.
19.Fixed editbox/listbox focus bug when switching windows.
20.Fixed $inellipse() bug by enabling floating point consistency
   option in compiler.
21.Fixed /hinc bug.
22.Fixed -nouninst backward compatibility bug.
23.Fixed flickering in channel nickname, channels list, and all
   other window listboxes.
24.Changed script editor interface slightly, now cleaner and easier
   to read. Added Check Bracket/Sort Variables items to Edit menu,
   line numbers to margin, and enter/home key indentation support.
   No longer flickers when resized.
25.Updated to PNG 1.2.22 and PCRE v7.4 libraries.
26.Fixed double-click on treebar notify nicks bug, now triggers
   correct Clicks dialog notify list alias.
27.Fixed on ^filesent/rcvd not /halting text bug.
28.Fixed treebar notify nicks menu not having $1 set as nick.
29.Fixed installer bug with mIRC/help file not being launched on
   install completion.
30.Fixed Unicode encoding bug when pasting large amounts of text.
31.Fixed Unicode not being copied to clipboard correctly from a
   @window with no editbox.
32.Changed right-click behavior in custom dialog listboxes to allow
   selecting an item without checking its radio/check box.
33.The default text for /list numerics 321 and 323 can now be halted.
34.Added SSL option to automatically accept invalid certificates.
35.Fixed @window tabs display bug.
36.Tips now shade each alternate message that is added to an existing
   tip to make it easier to distinguish individual messages.
37.When bars are locked the drag bars are now hidden from view.
38.Added /abook -h switch to open highlight dialog.
39.Fixed background picture display bug when loading large images.
40.Fixed line width/height measurement bug in @windows, now the same
   as non-@windows.
41.Fixed /splay and /sound error display bug.
42.Fixed saving tray/maximized window state bug.
43.Fixed /drawtext clipping bug when using tabs.
44.Fixed tray icon click multi-monitor bug.
45.Fixed reload log files bug when lock log files option is enabled.
46.Fixed Editor "Monitor File Changes" memory bug.
47.Changed behavior of "Hide minimized desktop windows" option so
   that query, message, and chat windows remain visible when they are
   first opened minimized on the desktop.
48.Fixed /hinc and /hdec maximum value bug.
49.Fixed clipboard handling bug.
50.Fixed $longfn() routine not appending / slash to the result when
   it is a directory.
51.Updated the mIRC icon and over seventy other icons in the toolbar,
   switchbar, tray, and window icons.
52.Fixed treebar focus bug when selecting item in treebar while mIRC
   is not active application.
53.Fixed some settings in editor dialog not being remembered if it
   was closed using the cancel button.
54.Fixed favorites dialog gpf bug when editing folder name.

16/08/2007 - mIRC v6.3

Changes:
1.Fixed /var bug when parsing multiple $identifiers() on one line.
2.Fixed /auser bug halting script if user already existed.
3.Fixed /toolbar -fl bug when an item in toolbar.ini contained a
  popup @menu.
4.Fixed custom DLL delay-unload feature so that it is only applied
  when mIRC exits. In other cases, the DLL is unloaded immediately.
5.Fixed mIRC always forcing an SSL +port if the last connection was
  an SSL +port.
6.Fixed popup menu positioning bug when pressing spacebar to display
  popup close to edge of Windows desktop.
7.Fixed $inroundrect() and $inellipse() bug.
8.When connecting to a round robin dns pool ip address the original
  connect address is now remembered and the connect message now has
  "dns pool" appended to it.
9.Fixed round robin dns pool ip address bug with SSL connections not
  remembering original host address during verification.
10.Fixed /queryrn bug not renaming same name with different case.
11.Fixed right-click popup menu selections not working correctly
   under Vista in some cases.
12.Fixed Servers List popup menu not displaying items correctly.
13.Fixed firewall password corruption bug.
14.Fixed script editor minimize/restore bug.
15.Fixed $sin/$cos/etc. rounding errors.
16.Fixed ? marked urls being deleted incorrectly while mIRC was
   running.
17.Fixed color codes not being processed properly in wrapped lines
   in some situations.
18.Fixed URL links not being opened with default browser under Vista.
19.The -r command line switch behavior has been changed so that if
   no path is specified after -r, mIRC will use the executable path.
20.For Vista compatibility, new installations of mIRC now save all
   settings in the User's "Application Data\mIRC" folder by default.

   However, if the installer or mIRC find mirc.ini in the same folder
   as mirc.exe they will use the mirc.exe folder for all settings.
   Users installing over an old version of mIRC should therefore see
   no change in behavior.

   The installer is now also aware of administrator and standard user
   accounts and installs mIRC accordingly.

21.Fixed command prefix /!. parsing inconsistencies across routines.
22.Fixed "// echo hello" being parsed as "//echo hello". The parser
   now halts parsing of empty // commands.
23.Fixed reload logs bug, was loading logs in wrong order.
24.Fixed on KICK event clearing $chan/$nick too early when you are
   kicked from a channel.
25.Fixed /drawtext color parsing bug in picture @windows.
26.Fixed /toolbar -fs bug, icon size was being saved incorrectly.
27.Fixed servers dialog intermittent gpf bug when sorting servers.
28.Fixed /dcc send -l and -m parsing bugs.
29.Fixed irc:// links not working under Vista.
30.Changed registry handling to ensure that mIRC works the same way
   whether run under administrator or standard user accounts.

   mIRC no longer updates the Uninstall section of the registry to
   point to the currently running mIRC, the Uninstall section is
   now only set by the installer. Removed -nouninst command line
   switch since this is no longer applicable.

   Also irc:// links are now only added to the Current User registry,
   not the local machine registry and this is only done when mIRC
   is run, not by the installer.

   The -service command line switch has been removed from the help
   file though it is still supported under 95/98/ME.

31.mIRC no longer uses an internal uninstaller, instead the install
   program now places an uninstall.exe in the mIRC folder.
32.Fixed dialog table definition not being able to call local aliases
   if dialog was opened from the command line.
33.Extended custom dialog "tab id" parameter to allow id to be an
   alias/identifier.
34.Fixed comments not being parsed correctly in the users list.
35.Fixed mouse cursor display bug during mark/copy.
36.Added internal U3 support to mIRC. mIRC looks for these command
   line parameters -appStart, -appStop, and -hostCleanUp, and looks
   for U3_HOST_EXEC_PATH and U3_APP_DATA_PATH environment variables.
37.Fixed INI storage bug when using -portable switch.
38.Changed -portable command line switch behavior. Now makes mIRC
   both 1) avoid use of the registry and 2) use the executable folder
   as the mirc.ini folder.
39.Fixed /if parser not reporting invalid operator for => and =<,
   and added not support for !> !<= etc.
40.Fixed window display bug when rejoining an already joined channel.
41.Fixed /writeini and /remini not reporting an error if they were
   unable to write to the file.
42.Added support for positioning Treebar at top/bottom of mIRC window.
43.Added support for network specific notify nicks. If no network
   is specified, nick is used on all networks. Extended command to
   /notify -n <nick> [network] [note], where -n indicates network
   has been specified. Also added $notify().network.
44.Changed "Received Files" explorer display to show folders pane.
45.Notify/Urls list windows are now displayed in both the treebar
   and the switchbar.
46.Changed the way the notify list window is displayed on connect.
47.Added -noreg command line switch to make mIRC avoid use of the
   registry (to make up for old -portable behavior).
48.Fixed $input dialog (and other windows) not being centered on
   desktop correctly if main mIRC window was minimized.
49.Added support for numeric 005 TARGMAX and MAXTARGETS tokens
   when sending privmsgs and notices in /amsg, /ame, /qme, /qmsg,
   /omsg, and /onotice.
50.Fixed notify list routine that was not correctly optimized, may
   have led to high cpu usage/interface lag for some users.
51.Fixed various dialogs opening centered in main window when opened
   with keyboard shortcuts, eg. Alt+O, Alt+B, etc.
52.Added support for notify list display in treebar, option enabled
   via treebar popup menu.
53.Added treebar menu option to use System menus or Window menus for
   right-clicked treebar items. System menus are the default. Toggle
   by holding shift key while right-clicking.
54.Added $menutype and $menucontext to supplement $menu. They are
   available during popup menu creation and indicate the menu type
   and context of the menu being created.
55.Changed left-click method on treebar items, it takes one click to
   open and close windows now.
56.Fixed issues with /mkdir and $isdir(). $isdir() will now only
   accept folder names, whereas previously it was accepting filenames
   as well.
57.Changed status window icon so that you can now tell when it is
   connected, connecting, logging on, or disconnecting.
58.Alt+LeftClick no longer changes the status window icon, instead
   it now adds a down arrow to the button. When clicked it displays
   a popup menu of hidden windows.
59.The status window title in switchbar/treebar now always shows the
   network/server name, even when not connected.
60.Added Buffer menu to custom @window system menu.
61.Changed the way files are renamed/copied/deleted to resolve file
   issues experienced by some users.
62.Fixed favorites menu recent channels history bug.
63.Changed the way $active works, was not consistent before.
64.Changed on ACTIVE so that it always triggers when a window gets
   the focus, was not triggering in all situations before.
65.Fixed /unload not halting script on error.
66.Added treebar support for spacebar to pop up menu for selected
   item.
67.Fixed $wrap() bug not handling bold control codes across multiple
   lines correctly.
68.If an incoming notice is displayed in more than one window eg. in
   common channels or the active window, windows are now highlighted
   only if necessary.
69.Added /cnick -f switch that forces the addition of a new entry to
   the list instead of updating an existing nick.
70.Fixed relative path bug when handling short paths.
71.Improved error handling in /load command.
72.Added notify and urls list items to windows order dialog, affects
   position of these items in treebar.
73.Added support for on ^TABCOMP, triggers before a $id or %var is
   evaluated.
74.Changed $fserv() to $fserve(), old identifier still supported but
   no longer documented.
75.Fixed MDI background display flickering bug.
76.The /setlayer command can now set the transparency of the main
   mIRC window.
77.When in the script editor mIRC no longer considers itself the
   active application, this allows flash/beep/etc. events to trigger.
78.All buttons that select/display files/folders now display the whole
   file/path with ellipsis if necessary.
79.Fixed nick color list freeze issue, instead of updating all nicks
   immediately when colors change, now only updates them when they
   are visible.
80.Moved highlight dialog to address book and added regex support.
81.Fixed options dialog memory leak.
82.Fixed "Move status window..." bug in Group dialog.
83.Fixed wildcard matching bug.
84.Added support for tips, text balloons that pop up near the Windows
   tray to notify you of various events such as incoming messages or
   users in your notify list coming on or leaving IRC.

   Tips only appear when mIRC is not the active application and are
   hidden the moment mIRC becomes active.

   Tips can be configured in the Options/Windows/Options dialog.

   The Highlight dialog in the Address Book also supports tips for
   matched items.

   Tips can also be scripted using the $tip() identifier:

   $tip(name,title,text,delay,iconfn,iconpos,alias,wid)
   Returns Nth position of tip if successful, zero if not.

   name - name of the tip
   title - title
   text - text
   delay - from 3 to 60 seconds
   iconfn - icon filename
   iconpos - icon position in filename
   alias - alias to perform when tip is double-clicked
   wid - id of window to which tip belongs

   name, title, text are required.
   delay, iconfn, iconpos, alias, and wid can be $null.

   $tip(name/N) can be used to list existing tips.

   Notes:

   Right-click in a tip pauses the time-out for all tips.

   Shift+Left-click in a tip closes that tip.

   Double-click in a tip triggers the alias if one is defined,
   or opens the associated window if not.

   The tip automatically fits the text into it and will at most
   widen to quarter of your screen width.

   New tips are queued until older tips time-out. Tips time-out
   at a slower rate if they are not at the head of the queue.

   If no wid is specified, the tip belongs to the status window
   of the currently active connection.

   A tip is closed if the window it belongs to is made active
   or is closed, or if mIRC is made active and the tip belongs
   to an MDI window.

85.Fixed /showmirc -nt bug minimizing mIRC but not activating
   the next application window.
86.Fixed $mp3() not handling Unicode tags correctly.
87.Added $fullscreen identifier, returns 1 if an application is
   running in full screen mode, 0 if not. This applies to game and
   non-game applications.
88.Fixed agent speaking bug.
89.Extended /echo -iN to allow maximum N of 256.
90.By popular request, changed logging method back to old method, no
   longer uses name.N.log filename format.
91.For new installs the "download" folder is now named "downloads"
   and a "scripts" folder is created by default.
92.Added $ebeeps identifier, returns sounds enabled/disabled state.
93.Updated tab display routines to use XP/Vista themes.
94.Fixed menubar spaces bug, all scripts are now aligned on load
   using same align routine as editor.
95.Removed support for mirc.hlp file on F1 key, only mirc.chm is
   used now.
96.Fixed editor "monitor file changes" bug with INI files.
97.When run under Vista mIRC now checks for a corresponding virtual
   store folder at startup. Vista creates virtual store folders for
   older non-Vista compatible applications, such as older versions
   of mIRC. If mIRC finds such a folder, it displays a dialog box
   allowing you to retrieve your old mIRC files and settings.
98.Added $sha1(text|&binvar|filename,[N]) identifier, where N = 0
   for plain text (default), 1 for &binvar, 2 for filename.
99.Updated to PNG 1.2.18 and PCRE v7.2 libraries and to OpenSSL
   0.9.8e support files.
100.The about dialog now displays a second page that loads from the
    mIRC website. No information is sent to the server.
101.Fixed custom dialog icon definitions not setting %var values
    correctly on exit.
102.Changed compiler optimization settings resulting in slightly
    larger executable.
103.Added Mode menu item to the View menu in the menubar that allows
    you to switch between Normal and Compact modes. Compact mode
    makes mIRC behave like a messenger with the treebar filling the
    main window, all windows opening on the desktop, and so on.

23/11/2006 - mIRC v6.21

Changes:
1.Fixed $timer().secs bug when used with /timer HH:MM.
2.Fixed right-click on disabled toolbar button popping up menu.
3.Fixed treebar and toolbar using same key accelerator in the view
  menu.
4.Changed wording in help file for /windows -D.
5.Changed /winhelp to allow help system to search for help file if
  it's not found in the mIRC folder.
6.Fixed /toolbar -z3 not loading actual icon size from an .ico file.
7.Fixed pressing spacebar in channel nicklist not popping up correct
  menu.
8.Fixed bug with popup menus displayed using spacebar in notify/url
  listboxes.
9.Fixed passive DCC send bug rejecting files in DCC ignore list.
10.Fixed /window -h not being able to hide status window switchbar
   buttons.
11.Fixed various tabbed text display bugs in @window text/listbox.
12.Fixed scripts reacting to superfuous windows mouse move messages.
13.Fixed display bug in reversed tabbed text in listbox @windows.
14.Fixed DCC get window not being auto-closed on time-out in some
   situations.
15.Improved /drawrot, now faster and supports float values.
16.Changed the way mIRC displays popup menus so that it triggers
   the WM_INITMENUPOPUP for plugin developers.
17.The LOADINFO structure now returns a minor version value that is
   right-padded with zeros, eg. "6 20".
18.Fixed /drawpic parameter parsing bug.
19.Fixed windows taking focus when mIRC is not the active application.
20.Fixed $regsubex() bug with \0 parameter and various other
   characters.
21.Added $regsubex() \A parameter, non-spaced version of \a.
22.Fixed issue with $lactive not always returning a value.
23.Fixed horizontal scrollbar bug in tabbed listbox @windows.
24.Optimized display speed of text in windows and listboxes.
25.Improved /window -b speed.
26.Improved $network return value when connected/disconnected when on
   networks that use different network names in numerics 001/005.
27.Fixed $dialog().focus not working correctly with comboboxes.
28.Added on HOTLINK support for $() and %var in matchtext.
29.When drag-dropping files on listboxes the listbox item under the
   mouse is now highlighted.
30.Fixed query windows in treebar/switchbar not being re-sorted on a
   nickname change.
31.Added Minimize/Close All menu items to treebar folder menus.
32.Fixed script editor bug deleting very long lines instead of
   truncating them.
33.Fixed /window -c gpf bug when several status windows are open and
   the first status window is closed.
34.Fixed $window().state bug.
35.Added $window().sbstate/tbstate, return switchbar/treebar button
   state for a window.
36.Updated library to PCRE v6.7, fixes various bugs.
37.Updated support files to OpenSSL v0.9.8b.
38.Fixed on WAVEEVEND event not being triggered correctly.
39.Fixed switchbar fill display bug.
40.Fixed $didwm() bug not handling blank lines in editboxes.
41.Fixed DCC Get behavior if download folder does not exist.
42.Fixed logging bug where logfiles were being lost if "make folder"
   was enabled and the same status window was used to connect to
   different networks.
43.Fixed $eval() parsing bug when passed more than two parameters.
44.Fixed nested $regsubex() gpf bug.
45.Extended commandline -r and -i parameters to accept non-full
   paths.
46.IRC Servers dialog now uses a treeview to display the servers list.
47.Fixed $inellipse() bug.
48.Fixed kill event handling bug.
49.Fixed $regml() bug.
50.Fixed log filenames handling bug.
51.Changed DNS routine so that it now randomizes the retrieved pool
   of IP addresses to spread the load across connections.
52.Fixed /btrunc bug.
53.Added /server -z switch, minimizes new status window.
54.Fixed numeric 345 not triggering on RAW event.
55.Fixed DCC send time-out bug when sending empty file.
56.Added command line switch -portable to make mIRC avoid use of the
   registry, and $portable identifier.
57.Fixed gif transparency issues.
58.Added 48 x 48 icon to mIRC icon for Vista.
59.Fixed minor cosmetic issues when running under Vista.
60.Fixed /window -h not hiding desktop @window when it is first
   created.
61.Fixed Alt+N behavior, when switchbar/treebar was enabled
   Alt+N was selecting windows hidden with /window -h.
62.Added Lock Bars option to toolbar/switchbar/treebar menus.
63.Fixed treebar not remembering /window -i item open/closed state
   when jumping between server items in treebar list.
64.Fixed treebar not placing /window -z windows at end of list. This
   affects custom @windows as well as other windows whose original
   server window has been closed.
65.Fixed Control+Minimize lock bug. Windows opened on the desktop
   are now also minimized and locked, and system menus are no longer
   usable without unlocking.
66.Fixed editor dialog not remembering correct position if Windows
   tray was in top/left position.
67.Fixed /editbox not working with minimized/hidden windows.
68.Added /toolbar -f[lsd] switches, load/save/delete toolbar in
   toolbar.ini file. mIRC auto-loads toolbar.ini on startup.
69.Fixed $rand() floating point handling bug.
70.Changed PCRE compile options, previous change had resulted in
   a significant performance decrease.
71.Fixed $error being reset when an alias/identifier is called in the
   :error section without using /reseterror.
72.Fixed regex identifiers not handling script errors correctly.
73.Fixed logfiles bug resulting in lost or corrupted logfiles when
   connecting to multiple servers.
74.Fixed reload logfiles bug when lines prefixed with both color
   codes and timestamps.
75.Fixed channel topic/mode bug, were not being cleared correctly
   on reconnecting to a server.
76.Fixed Treebar folder icon display bug.
77.Added "Single click on tray icon to open" option to tray dialog.
78.When settings are changed in logging dialog, the logging state of
   windows and any open log filenames are now immediately updated to
   reflect new settings.
79.Added "Flash on chat message" option to IRC Options dialog.
80.Added "Beep on chat message" option to Sounds dialog.
81.Disabling sounds in the Sounds dialog now does actually disable
   all sounds, even those using /splay or /beep.
82.Fixed bug with Background pictures not applying correct display
   method (center, fill, etc.) in some cases.
83.Added new sound events to the Sounds dialog.
84.Fixed DCC Send/Get progress bar display bug, was not showing
   completed transfer in some situations.
85.Fixed incorrect evaluation of parameters containing $nulls when
   passed to identifiers.
86.Fixed /ctcps, /events, and /remote not handling "off" parameter
   correctly.
87.Fixed $fline() and $line() returning results when "listbox"
   specified and used with a non-listbox window.

28/07/2006 - mIRC v6.2

Changes:
1.Reverted changes that made the display smoother since slower computers
  where unable to cope. The display now flickers a bit as in previous
  versions.
2.Changed mark/copy behavior so that it works like it did in previous
  versions.
3.Fixed various $regsubex() bugs.
4.Fixed switchbar not displaying at least first character of a window
  name when ellipses are appended.
5.Extended /did to support a long list of ids as opposed to only up
  to 256 characters.
6.Fixed agent speech being interrupted when Options dialog is closed.
7.The Channel/Message beep settings in Options/Sounds are now applied
  to all windows when the Options dialog is closed.
8.Fixed bug with Control+F find dialog in desktop windows.
9.Fixed bug with active window not being internally set correctly in
  some situations.
10.Fixed /window -t width measurements being smaller then previous
   versions, changed back for compatibility.
11.Fixed /localinfo incorrectly displaying DNS messages.
12.Extended /drawpic -gN switch, where N = 1 for small icon, 2 for
   large icon, and 3 for actual icon.
13.Changed $findfile() so that it works as fast as in past versions
   if the new semi-colon feature is not used. The semi-colon feature
   is now also somewhat faster.
14.Fixed change in / commandline parsing behavior.
15.Fixed text measurement bug which was affecting /drawtext, $height(),
   $width(), and $wrap().
16.Fixed Control+K bug in channel central topic when clicking on color
   dialog to insert a color number.
17.Fixed $longip() bug.
18.Fixed UTF-8 bug when parsing notice, privmsg, and other commands
   that contained comma-separated nicks as the target.
19.Fixed SSL security dialog display bug when using /sockopen and SSL.
20.Added $sock().addr which displays original named address if one was
   used, and /socklist now also displays the named address.
21.Fixed /names list display being truncated when a UHNAMES list is
   returned with full addresses.
22.Fixed SSL gpf bugs related to multi-threading issues.
23.Fixed auto-hide nicklist not hiding when mouse is moved outside of
   the channel window.
24.Added /clearall -a switch, applies to window on all connections.
25.Added /timer -d switch, ensures that a timer and any subsequent
   timers using the -d switch are triggered in that order.
26.Fixed $iel()/$iil() bugs.
27.Changed $me in on NICK messages so that it refers to your old nick
   as in previous versions.
28.Fixed bug in /dde connect parsing.
29.Fixed decrease in picture @window display speed.
30.Copying text from both a UTF-8 "display" or "encode" enabled window
   now copies the text as Unicode to the clipboard.
31.Fixed /filter color bug when filtering text windows.
32.Fixed bug relating to the order in which SJIS/JIS and UTF-8
   encodings are applied when both options are enabled.
33.Fixed $regsub() parsing bug.
34.The $rawmsg identifier now works in the on CHAT event.
35.Fixed flood protection bug, was UTF-8/SJIS/JIS double-encoding text
   that was queued.
36.Fixed switchbar button text color bug.
37.Channel Folder now shows channel description alongside channel name.
38.Fixed horizontal scrollbar being too long in all listbox windows
   in mIRC.
39.Fixed an old bug in the /flush command not parsing the -l switch
   correctly.
40.Added $did().isid property, returns $true or $false depending on
   whether the specified id exists in the dialog.
41.Added custom dialog listbox property "radio", creates listbox
   of radioboxes.
42.Pressing spacebar in custom dialog listbox of checkboxes now checks
   or unchecks all selected items.
43.Fixed spacebar not working in mIRC Options dialog treelist.
44.Added "Match only whole words" option to Agents Lexicon dialog.
45.Added $editbox().selstart/selend properties, return start and end of
   selection in editbox, and /editbox -bNeN, set the start and end
   of the selection.
46.Added on TABCOMP event, triggers when a user presses the TAB key in
   an editbox and mIRC is about to perform tab completion. Halting the
   event prevents mIRC's default tab completion.

   on *:TABCOMP:<*#?=!@>:echo event: $event target: $target line: $1-

47.Can now specify a range of ids in on dialog events using a dash, eg.
   on 1:dialog:name:event:1-5,6,7-8,9-11,10: { ... }
48.Fixed multibyte editbox cursor display bug when switching between
   windows.
49.Tabbing into the editbox in the Editor dialog no longer selects all
   text in the editbox.
50.Fixed old bug in users list IP address/wildcard matching in remote
   events.
51.Fixed /drawscroll bug.
52.Fixed switchbar button hottracking display bug.
53.Fixed an empty $calc() halting a script with no error message.
54.Changed behavior of Recent Channels menu in favorites so that it
   is now network-based as opposed to server-based, ie. if you have
   several connections open to the same network, the Recent Channels
   list is shared between them.
55.Added custom dialog icon options, can now specify small, large, or
   actual in icon dialog definition.
56.The on ^HOTLINK event now triggers on right-click, use $mouse.key
   to check for right mouse button.
57.Added /run -h switch to hide the application being run.
58.Fixed bug in /drawtext -bp where -b was not being parsed correctly
   with the -p switch.
59.Added support for UTF-8 display font substitution/linking, option
   enabled by default in IRC/Messages dialog, should allow mIRC to
   display all characters regardless of the font you are using,
   assuming you have the required fonts on your system.
60.Fixed UTF-8/Multibyte text-wrapping display bug.
61.The $regml() identifier can now be used inside $regsubex().
62.Fixed /font -z not affecting custom @windows.
63.Added $activewid, $lactivewid, and $leftwinwid identifiers.
64.Channels Folder now displays UTF-8 channel names and desciptions
   correctly.
65.Fixed window listboxes display bug with horizontal scrolling.
66.Pressing Control+A in the urls list and in custom @window listboxes
   now selects all items.
67.Fixed /scon /scid display bug when invalid id is used.
68.Fixed font dialog not setting font for minimized windows.
69.Custom DLLs are now delay-unloaded to allow subclassing DLLs to
   work better. The UnloadDLL routine is still called at the same
   point as before.
70.Script editor now has minimize/maximize buttons.
71.Pressing spacebar in the Lock dialog checkbox list now correctly
   checks/unchecks an item.
72.The toolbar can now be repositioned to top/bottom/left/right of
   main mIRC window.
73.Fixed Control+Break handling in scripts.
74.Added /loadbuf -a switch to load text into active window.
75.The $com() identifier now uses UTF-8 internally and the .result
   property now returns UTF-8 text, when necessary.
76.Added $cb(N,u) option, returns UTF-8 text.
77.Fixed /splay not handling \\network directory format.
78.Fixed nick/url/etc. right-click popup menu not working if text in
   window scrolled while popup menu was visible.
79.Fixed installer default folder bug under xp64.
80.Updated library to PCRE v6.6, which supports limiting the regex
   recursion depth. This prevent gpfs caused by runaway expressions.
81.Fixed /drawcopy -n not updating window when no parameters are used.
82.Fixed /sockread -nf bug, switches were not being parsed correctly.
83.Buttons in top/bottom position switchbar are now wider by default.
84.Fixed bug in Options dialog. When there were many channel/query/etc.
   windows open the Options dialog would take a long time to close.
85.Fixed focusing bug when using Alt+N to switch to Nth window right
   after a window opened in a minimized state.
86.Fixed $sfile() bug with some file name formats.
87.Extended $os to detect Vista.
88.Fixed bug in popup menu parsing when text contained { character.
89.Invisible mode connect option is now enabled by default.
90.Added a Treebar which lists connections and open windows, much like
   the switchbar. It behaves like the switchbar in many ways as well,
   eg. Shift/Control + left-click support, icon blinking, etc. and
   uses various switchbar settings in the Options/Dialog.

   Right-clicking on an item pops up the usual system menu for that
   window. Right-clicking in an empty area of the treebar pops up a
   menu with various display options.

   The treebar width can be set by dragging the border with the mouse,
   and the background and text colors can be set in the colors dialog.

91.The right-click popup menus for the Toolbar/Switchbar now offer
   options that were removed from the Options/Display dialog. The
   Switchbar can now be resized by dragging the border of the bar
   with the mouse.
92.Fixed right-click popup menu bug where menus were being wrongly
   displayed when clicking on window borders.
93.Fixed switchbar display bug when scrolling with mouse wheel.
94.Fixed regex bug which was truncating long results instead of
   returning a string too long error.
95.Fixed /server gpf bug with long parameters.
96.Added /window -D switch, allows toggling of MDI/desktop setting
   for custom @windows via system menu.
97.Added $fline().text property.
98.Added /exit -nr switches, -n disables confirmation dialogs, and
   -r restarts mIRC.
99.Extended /window -nN switch, if N = 2, minimizes window without
   auto-expanding its item in the treebar.
100.Fixed / and /! not being treated as text with Control+Enter.
101.Added Up/Down sort buttons for Options/DCC/Folders dialog to set
    order of matching.
102.Added "Minimize mIRC on close" option to Display/Windows dialog.
103.The Reload logs feature in the logging dialog can now be set
    separately for channels and chats.
104.Fixed bug in the Line colors feature in the logging dialog, the
    default line color is now reset correctly if colors are used in
    the line.
105.Fixed minimize option in DCC Send dialog not being applied
    immediately to current DCC send.
106.Added vertical tile option to toolbar and window menu, and to
    auto tile section in Window/Group dialog.
107.Added /abook -wncl switches, open the different tabs in the
    address book dialog.
108.Added "Preserve nicks" feature to Connect/Options dialog. If
    enabled, mIRC will use /tnick internally to ensure that your
    nicknames in the Connect dialog remain static. Also added /mnick
    command to change your main nickname.
109.Added "Include desktop windows" to the Display dialog. If
    disabled, desktop windows are not displayed in the switchbar.
110.Extended /window -wN switch, where 0 = hide from switchbar/treebar,
    1 = show in switchbar, 2 = show in treebar, 3 = show in both.
111.Fixed hotlinks not handling nicknames with multiple prefixes.
112.Default colors are now stored internally in mIRC and are written
    to mirc.ini if no colors are found.
113.Default wav/mid/etc. DCC folder item is now only re-created if no
    extensions section is found in mirc.ini.
114.Extended SendMessage() support. The lParam value can now be used
    to create a uniquely named mapped file. Where lParam = N, the
    mapped filename is mIRCN. If lParam is zero, the filename is mIRC,
    as in previous versions.
115.Added "Auto" option to Switchbar lines setting in Options/Display
    dialog. Auto-expands switchbar as number of buttons changes when
    switchbar is in top/bottom position.
116.Added "Multi-line toolbar" option to Options/Display dialog.
117.Added /toolbar command, allows modification of toolbar buttons.

    /toolbar -aidmsxkNnNzNebwhyNurctplor [N] <name/N> <tooltip>
             <picfile|@> [x y w h] [/alias] [popfile|@]

    -a = add button
    -i = insert button at position [N]
    -d = delete button at position [N] or <name>
    -m = move button <name/N> to position [N]

    -s = separator
    -x = wide button

    -kN = use when adding button to make it a check button
          check/uncheck with N = 1 or N = 0

    -nN = icon index in picfile
    -zN = icon size, 1 = small, 2 = large, 3 = actual

    -eb = enable/disable button [N] or <name>
    -wh = show/hide button [N] or <name>

    -yN = set transparency (0 to 255) for button [N] or <name>

    -u = update display immediately
    -r = reset buttons
    -c = clear all buttons

    To update properties for an existing button:

    -t = tooltip
    -p = picfile
    -l = alias
    -o = popup

    name = unique name assigned to button/separator, it cannot be
           a number

    tooltip = text displayed when the mouse hovers over button

    picfile|@ = picture filename or picture @window
                min 16x16, max 256x256 pixels

    x y w h = position in bitmap and size of bitmap to use
              not for use with icons

    /alias = command performed when button pressed, $!1 = name
    popupfile|@ = popup filename or @menu name

    The tooltip, picfile, alias and popup can be enclosed in quotes
    if necessary. To clear an item use "" empty quotes.

    $toolbar(name/N), if N = 0 returns number of buttons

    Properties: name,type,tip,alias,popup,width,height,wide,
                enabled,visible,checked,alpha

    Note: modifying some of the default mIRC buttons, such as Connect,
    Notify, etc. may not always work since they are managed by mIRC.
    They can however be deleted.

118.Fixed /signal -n bug, was allowing $? dialog in server event.
119.Fixed /!.var conversion to /set -l, was not using the !. prefixes.
120.mIRC now stores a [success] section in servers.ini that lists
    servers that were connected to successfully. When you later
    connect to a server group, the success list is used to prioritize
    server connection attempts. "Clear History" via the servers list
    popup menu clears this list.
121.Fixed various multi-monitor right-click mouse button bugs.
122.Added /help and /winhelp support for .chm files.
123.Added aline/iline/sline/etc. -t switch, forces a re-wrap of all
    lines in a window that have not yet been wrapped to the current
    window size.
124.Toolbar disconnect confirmation feature now displays a question
    mark on the disconnect button when you try to disconnect.

17/02/2006 - mIRC v6.17

Changes:
1.Fixed $comval() gpf bug.
2.Fixed /font gpf bug.
3.Fixed menu {} rclick related bug.
4.Fixed numeric 338 remote bug.
5.Fixed recursion stack overflow gpf bug.
6.Fixed /.uwho message not being hidden.
7.Fixed /close gpf bug in on close event.
8.Fixed ! command prefix bug when used with certain commands.
9.Added support for IRCnet numeric 265/266 format change.
10.Fixed handling of <> URL formats in hotlinks.
11.Fixed remote /whois display bug.
12.Fixed switchbar status highlight bug with orphaned DCC chats.
13.Fixed perform on connect listbox not displaying scrollbar.
14.Fixed auto-join bug.
15.Added support for unreal ircd /whois numeric 671.
16.Most file dialogs are now resizable.
17.Fixed SSL file dialog display bug.
18.Added support for numeric 005 NAMESX token, indicating that
   mIRC supports multiple mode prefixes for a nickname in a NAMES
   list, eg. @+nickname.
19.Fixed disappearing background pictures bug in query/chat windows.
20.Added /sockopen -e switch which creates an SSL connection and
   $sock().ssl identifier.
21.Added /tray -mNsNtNaN switches where N is 0 or 1 and enables or
   disables the tray settings always show, startup minimized,
   minimize to tray, and animate on activity.
22.Added $decode to Lock options dialog. Lock dialog now also allows
   individual setting of lock items. $decode is disabled by default.
23.Fixed ANSI support for MOTD message.
24.Added default sounds options to notify options dialog.
25.Added $mouse.key & 8 to check for Alt key and $mouse.key & 16 to
   check for right mouse button.
26.Added $inellipse(x,y,x,y,w,h) and $inroundrect(x,y,x,y,w,h,w,h).
27.Added /sockpause [-r] <name> command, pauses/restarts a socket from
   reading incoming data. $sock().pause returns current state.
28.Added connection timeout option in connect/options dialog, PINGs
   the server every so often to test connection.
29.Added /dcc send -m switch to minimize DCC send windows.
30.Fixed script recursion gpf bug.
31.Fixed $inpaste bug.
32./hsave -b now displays a warning when it is unable to save data
   that is longer than 65535 bytes.
33.Fixed isnum bug with negative values.
34.Added global Join on connect option to favorites dialog.
35.The Hide ping? pong! event option is now enabled by default.
36.Fixed ordering of notify/unotify events on non-WATCH servers during
   a /nick change.
37.Added support for initiating passive DCC send/chat connections,
   option in DCC Options dialog. Also added /dcc passive [on|off]
   command and $passivedcc identifier.
38.Added $locked identifier, returns whether mIRC is locked or not.
39.Fixed $target processing for /msg +#channel, mIRC now correctly
   checks the CHANTYPES and PREFIX numeric 005 tokens to strip
   prefixes.
40.Fixed formatting of outgoing wallchops/users/voices.
41.Changed flood protection feature so that it uses PING instead of
   PRIVMSG when testing server lag.
42.Added custom dialog listbox property "check", creates listbox
   of checkboxes, manipulated with /did -sl and $did().csel/cstate.
43.Added $window().fontcs identifier, returns the selected character
   set/script for a window's font.
44./debug windows now show raw text without interpreting multibyte or
   utf text.
45.Changing the default font for a window type now affects all open
   windows of the same type immediately.
46.Fixed SSL files path bug where certificate files where not being
   loaded if not in mIRC root folder.
47.Fixed :error handler bug where the normal break message was being
   displayed due to Control+Break being detected more than once.
48.Added support for display of UTF-8 text as Unicode in status,
   channel, query, and other windows, and in nickname listboxes,
   window titlebars, switchbar, and tooltips.

   The display of UTF-8 can be enabled for all windows in the
   Options/IRC/Messages dialog, or individually for each window
   via the Fonts dialog. The Fonts dialog also has an "Encode"
   option that encodes outgoing text in UTF-8 based on the
   script/codepage selected for that window.

   Note: The Encode feature is selective, ie. it only encodes the
   parts of an outgoing message that are not already in UTF-8 format.

   Added $utfencode(text, C) and $utfdecode(text, C), where C is the
   script/codepage ($window().fontcs) of the plain text.

   Added $isutf(text) identifier, returns UTF-8 status of text, where
   0 = not UTF-8 (contains invalid UTF-8 sequences), 1 = seems to be
   plain text, 2 = seems to contain valid UTF-8.

   Note: mIRC does not convert incoming UTF-8 into the local codepage.
   Server text is stored internally unchanged. This enables mIRC
   (scripts, etc.) to work fully with UTF-8 IRC servers that allow
   UTF-8 in channel and nick names.

49.Fixed /load -nrs switch bug.
50.Fixed DCC Options dialog gpf bug.
51.Fixed mark/copy clipboard memory leak bugs.
52.Fixed $encode/$decode memory not being freed in some situations.
53.Added $qt(text) identifier, ensures text is enclosed in quotes,
   and $noqt(text), removes outer enclosing quotes.
54.Text display is now smoother/less flickery in some situations.
55.Fixed /drawpic bug drawing blurred icons.
56.Added /drawpic -g switch, loads large icon from icon file.
57.Fixed handling of /describe $ server messages.
58.Fixed buffer save bug, was ocasionally not saving lines.
59.Fixed $sdir() bug.
60.Fixed /bread, /bwrite, and /btrunc not being able to handle files
   larger than 2 gigs.
61.Fixed toolbar custom buttons bug when changing XP themes.
62.Fixed /debug -i identifier evaluation bug.
63.Fixed channel tab completion freeze bug.
64.Fixed $file().size bug with locked files.
65.Fixed /renwin bug with reserved @window names.
66.Fixed mIRC tray icon double-click bug not showing/hiding mIRC
   correctly in some cases.
67.Fixed tray-related disappearing mIRC bug.
68.Fixed $script() not parsing quote-enclosed filenames.
69.Fixed wildcard handling bugs.
70.Fixed /window -z bug, can no longer be applied to status window.
71.Fixed contents of second editbox being reset when visual styles
   are changed.
72.Fixed . prefix not working for /localinfo command.
73.Fixed invalid { parameter gpf bug in $eval, $height, $width,
   and $wrap identifiers.
74.Fixed while loop bug with :error and /reseterror.
75.Fixed various $comcall() bugs. The $comerr value is also now set
   when $comcall() calls the alias.

   Note: If $comcall() fails when calling an object and $com() does
   not, this means that the object is not compatible with mIRC's
   threading model, so $com() must be used.

76.Extended $findfile() to handle multiple file types separated by
   semi-colons, eg. *.exe;*.txt
77.Fixed display of Efnet numeric 338 containing IPv6 address.
78.Improved hotlink handling of bracket-enclosed channel names.
79.Fixed switchbar button text color not matching XP theme color.
80.Fixed /goto bug which resulted in jumping to the wrong line.
81.Fixed $com() memory leak bug.
82.Fixed various $did() bugs affecting "multsel" listboxes.
83.Fixed $iif() bug when parsing $null parameters.
84.Fixed DCC gpf bug in iphlpapi.dll where initiating a DCC would
   result in a gpf for some users. This bug may also have been
   affecting mIRC's general sockets behavior.
85.The $asctime() identifier now allows am/pm to be separate from
   the time value.
86.Fixed text-wrapping of messages for /fopen-related commands.
87./firewall command now also accepts server:port format.
88.Added /autojoin -nsdN command, can be used in on CONNECT or perform
   to delay or prevent autojoining of channels. This also affects the
   rejoining of open channel windows during a reconnect. Where -n = join
   now, -s = skip autojoin, -dN = delay autojoin for N seconds.
89.Fixed multi-threading sychnronization bugs in SSL routines.
90.Fixed /queryrn not permitting certain characters in nickname.
91.Fixed if/elseif/while gpf bug when parameters too long.
92.Updated libraries to PNG 1.2.8, zlib 1.2.3, and PCRE v6.4.
93.The SSL warning/password dialogs now auto-cancel after 60 seconds.
94.Fixed /aline -n and -nl, now identical behavior if line exists,
   ie. both have no effect on the line. This also affects /iline.
95.Fixed /list bug, now reports an error if /list is sent before you
   are connected to the server.
96.Fixed mIRC not saving settings when Windows shutsdown/restarts.
97.Fixed switchbar tooltip display bug.
98.Fixed $bfind(&binvar, N, M) bugs relating to reading beyond the
   end of the actual &binvar length.
99.Fixed $input() 'd' option, was playing a default sound even if none
   was set for the specified system icon.
100.Added support for displaying GIFs via the GIFLIB library.
101.Added $findfilen/$finddirn identifiers, return Nth position of
    files/dirs found with $findfile/$finddir.
102.Can now specify a range of ids with one /did command by using a
    dash, eg. /did -b test 1-5,6,7-8,9-11,10
103.Added separate timestamp option for logfiles in logging dialog
    /timestamp -g switch to set logstamp format, and $logstamp and
    $logstampfmt identifiers.
104.Extended $sound() to read id3v2 tags, with properties .id3, .tags,
    and $sound(filename,N|name).tag. If you don't use .tag, it returns
    the id3v1 values.
105.Extended /flash -bNrNwN, where N limits the number of flashes/beeps,
    and fixed /flash making a sound even if -b or -w were not used.
106.Fixed DCC Send/Get window button/window sizing when different fonts
    are selected for the window.
107.Extended $input(text,kN), where kN is an N second timeout value.
    On timing out, $timeout is returned if 'v' is specified, no
    value if 'e' is specified, and $false otherwise.
108.Added custom dialog editbox 'number' property to limit input to
    numbers. Note that this only applies to typing in the editbox,
    not pasting.
109.Added /noop command, performs no operation.
110.Extended /showmirc -ntl, where -l locks mIRC when it is being
    minimized.
111.Added $regsubex([name], text, re, subtext), where subtext is
    evaluated during substitution and can be an identifier. Subtext
    can contain special markers where \0 = number of matches, \n =
    match number, \t = match text, \a = all match items. Returns text
    result.
112.Fixed "fill switchbar" display bug with /window -z windows.
113.Fixed parsing bug with combinations of $& and | separator.
114.Fixed /timer not checking for an invalid timer delay value.
115.Fixed /url not opening default browser in some situations.
116.Added /set/inc/dec -e switch, unsets variable on mIRC exit.
117.Extended /window and $window(), can now refer to existing windows
    using wid value, eg. /window -n @1.
118.Fixed $line() not parsing chat =names correctly.
119.Fixed if parser treating 00 as text instead of a zero value.
120.Fixed $upper/$lower not converting accented characters correctly.
121.Fixed udpread event treating zero incoming bytes as closing of
    the connection.
122.Fixed broken behavior of notify list /whois option due to Efnet
    not accepting /whois nick1,nick2,... format.
123.Changing the font for a DCC Send/Get window now immediately resizes
    the window and buttons.
124.Fixed if/while parsing bug when parameter begins with ; character.
125.Fixed on OPEN event not supporting $()/%var in text match section.
126.Fixed $regsub() not reporting an error if an invalid %varname is
    specified.
127.Added support for numeric 005 UHNAMES token, indicating that mIRC
    supports the nick!user@host format in the NAMES list which it uses
    to the fill the IAL on joining a channel.
128.Using /halt in the alias called by $findfile/$finddir now halts
    the file/dir search.
129.Added support for /adchat, /netglobal, and /globops commands.
130.Added $bytes(N,d) switch, retains decimals. Also fixed handling of
    negative values.
131.Added support for numeric 345 channel invite message.
132.Editor variables sort button now toggles between four different
    sort methods.
133.Extended the number of url types that the hotlinks/urls list
    features handle.
134.Added support for internal excepts/invites list with $chan().iel
    and .iil, $iel() and $iil(), and if isexcept and isinvite.
135.Added "Line colors" option to logging dialog, prefixes the line
    with actual line color in logfile if necessary.
136.Fixed intermittent load/reload scripts gpf bug.
137.Added support for numeric 005 TARGMAX=WHOIS:N token, number of
    nicknames that a /whois command allows.
138.Fixed favorites menu bug with recent channels and active server
    connections.
139.Calling /clipboard with no text now empties the clipboard instead
    of assigning it an empty string.
140.Fixed highlight feature bug when matching against non-ascii text.
141.Fixed nick color list option not using first matching item in the
    list when matching against a user level.
142.Fixed intermittent /dialog gpf bug with long table names.
143.Fixed parser bug when handling empty custom identifiers with
    properties.
144.Fixed $longip() handling of zero-padded ip addresses.
145.Fixed DCC Folders dialog bug where items added with mIRC folder
    as the save folder were being lost on restart.
146.Fixed timestamp display bug in "copy messages to query" option.
147.Fixed /timers triggering in an unexpected order, should now trigger
    according to the order in which they were set even if they have the
    same delay.
148.Since numeric 005 ELIST token now exists, from the next version
    mIRC will no longer treat SAFELIST as implying support for /list
    parameters and will only use /list parameters if a server specifies
    the ELIST token in numeric 005.
149.Fixed $prop returning only the last part of a property name that
    contains multiple . in the name.
150.Fixed mime decoding not ignoring non-base64 characters.
151.Fixed $ini() returning 0 instead of $null for non-existent topics.
152.Added support for more genres to mp3 identifiers.
153.Fixed /rename bug when attempting to rename an existing file with
    the same name.
154.Fixed custom @window logfiles not rotating filenames correctly at
    midnight as with channel/chat windows.
155.Improved handling of ANSI color codes.
156.Fixed /comopen and /comclose not triggering error catcher if item
    was already open/closed.
157.Both $regsub() and $regsubex() no longer treat $N as \N.
158.Extended /filter -e to handle larger numbers when sorting.
159.Fixed /did -ocueb not working on submenu items.
160.Fixed /loadbuf display bug with custom dialog hidden controls.
161.File dialogs now display the places bar under 2k/XP.
162.Switchbar now allows wider buttons when placed on left/right.
163.Fixed /splay bug with path/extension handling.
164.Added "Show nick list on Shift+Tab key" option to channel nick
    list options dialog.

07/07/2004 - mIRC v6.16

Changes:
1.Fixed $did().seltext/text bug.
2.Fixed /hinc /hdec result message bug.
3.Fixed $ssl not being set correctly if not connected to a server.
4.Fixed $chr(160) SJIS/JIS gpf bug.
5.Fixed while/continue/break bugs.
6.Fixed /filter -ntk returning incorrect line numbers.
7.Fixed MDI window display bug with maximized windows.
8.Fixed /list -min -max values being offset by one.
9.Fixed urls list sort bug for ? items.
10.Fixed $serverip not working in on disconnect event.
11.Fixed handling of different server formats for numeric 328.
12.Added $input() option 'u', makes input dialog use currently
   active window as the parent window, including custom dialogs.
13.Fixed $result not working in $iif() and some other identifiers.
14.Fixed :error detection not working for /splay and /alias
   commands.
15.Fixed DCC get open folder bug when filename contains commas.
16.SJIS/JIS is now applied to messages only if you have a window
   open that uses the SJIS charset, as in previous versions.
17.Added /if iswmcs case-sensitive wildcard match comparison.
18.The $pnick and $play(1).pos values are now updated after the
   on PLAYEND event is triggered.
19.Fixed /alias reporting incorrect error message when alias
   can't be removed.
20.Fixed /filter incorrectly retaining indentations in lines.
21.The $ifmatch identifier now returns the value of the previous
   if comparison, even if it failed.
22.Fixed $did().next/prev bug.
23.Added /window -H switch to enable @window listbox auto-hide.
24.Fixed notify list bug with popup menu using incorrect server
   connection with aliases.
25.Fixed $ial() not being updated after a /hop.
26.Added $v1 and $v2 identifiers, return values of first and second
   parts of an if comparison.

   Note: $v1 replaces $ifmatch, however $ifmatch is still supported
   for now.

27.Added $insong.pause returns $true if song is paused.
28.Updated support for numeric 489 due to different meaning across
   networks.
29.Fixed /uwho numeric processing bug.
30.Fixed background display/resize bug with desktop windows.
31.Fixed highlight feature gpf bug.
32.Added /drawpic -o command, indicates that you have specified an
   [N] value before the filename which is the index of the icon in
   the file.
33.Updated $disk() to work with mounted NTFS drives.
34.Fixed /hop bug.
35.Fixed $file().size limitation.
36.Improved support for multiple server formats for numeric 338.
37.Added $comval(name,N,member) identifier, returns member values
   for the Nth retrieved instance ie. enumerated collection.

03/06/2004 - mIRC v6.15

Changes:
1.Fixed $base() gpf bug with large numbers.
2.Fixed SSL gpf on connect with certain certificate types.
3.Fixed notify list hidden edit button bug.
4.The DCC send/get on filesent/filercvd/etc. events can now halt
  the default messages displayed in the status window.
5.Fixed bug in /findtext and Control+F routines.
6.Fixed &binvars not being unset at end of script in some cases.
7.Fixed Find URL bug in URL window.
8./names no longer fills nick list of channel window from which
  you have been kicked.
9.Fixed /echo -eg causing line separator to be logged.
10.Query window logs that are created but not written to are now
   automatically deleted when the query window is closed.
11.Fixed $error in :error handler not displaying correct line
   number and backward propagation of error.
12.Fixed $encode() not working with one character length text.
13.Fixed /gtalk -w, now looks in waves folder for sound.
14.Fixed random port selection bug.
15.SJIS/JIS support is now only automatically enabled when first
   running mIRC on a multi-byte SJIS/JIS system.
16.If auto-get is enabled with auto-resume and the incoming file is
   smaller than an existing file, the DCC is now cancelled.
17.Fixed Alt+Minus key combination displaying incorrect system menu
   when a window is maximized.
18./hop is ignored if issued more than once in a channel window that
   is in the process of being rejoined.
19.Fixed $sfile/$msfile bug when multiple filetypes are used.
20.Fixed $input not always initially setting focus to editbox.
21.Fixed handling of SSL port numbers where a disconnect and reconnect
   resulted in use of a non-SSL port. mIRC will now always use an SSL
   port when connecting if it was using one in the prior connection.
22.Recent servers list in servers.ini now stores entries with port
   numbers not in the servers list for that server.
23.Fixed /if comparison evaluation bug with $identifiers.
24.Fixed /debug bug, failed if called more than once in some cases.
25.Fixed $addtok() handling of $null values.
26.Fixed $did/$dname/$devent being reset during an on dialog event
   in some situations.
27.Reverted change to /echo -bfh which allowed custom @windows to blink.
28.Fixed DCC accept message not applying the fill spaces option to
   a filename with spaces.
29.Fixed ampersand bug in custom dialog combo boxes.
30./window -a now activates DCC chat windows associated with active
   connection first if any are found.
31.Improved port-in-use detection method so port selection for DCC
   and other connections works more smoothly.
32.Fixed recursion gpf bug with /scon and /scid.
33.Fixed while/if bug when using $iif() in comparisons.
34.An error message is now displayed when the maximum recursion
   depth is reached in a script.
35.%helper users now able to use +voice related features such as
   auto-voice, /pvoice, etc.
36.Fixed Address Book/Control dialog not displaying ignore time
   value correctly when /ignore -uN is used.
37.Fixed channels list lower-case display bug on keypress.
38.Fixed /window not handling quotes around =chat window names.
39.Fixed $onpoly() not handling intersecting polygons of zero
   volume.
40.Fixed handling of regular expressions that contained certain
   characters in remote event definitions.
41.Fixed binary variables being unset immediately instead of at
   the end of a script when $scon() is used.
42.Fixed custom socket bug that was causing sockets to be closed
   randomly.
43.Fixed "start minimized" bug where windows were not being sized
   properly at start up if mIRC was minimized.
44.Fixed editbox display bug when using certain fonts.
45.Fixed DCC trusted listbox not displaying vertical scroll bar.
46.Fixed tabkey evaluation bug.
47.Fixed /drawpic memory leak when drawing icons.
48.Fixed the way /ban -uN and /ignore -uN values are processed,
   now identical.
49.Fixed DCC send/chat using incorrect network when initiated via
   notify list window.
50.Added /filter -k <infile> <alias> switch, calls alias instead
   of outputting to a file or window.
51.The Open Folder button in a completed DCC Get window now opens
   the explorer window and highlights the received file.
52.Fixed custom dialog combo editbox bug when deleting item.
53.Added /font -z switch, clears all font settings and sets all
   windows to the specified font. If no font is specified, all
   default font settings are set to fixedsys.
54.Fixed log folder bug where a subfolder was incorrectly being
   created in some situations.
55.Added "Find selection" option to Editor dialog, toggles find
   dialog behavior of using text under cursor.
56.Fixed /dialog -c gpf bug.
57.Fixed SSL key files handling bug, changes in SSL dialog were
   not being applied.
58.Fixed SSL root certificate handling bug, resulted in rejection
   of valid certificates.
59.Fixed various multi-byte display/mark/copy bugs.
60.Fixed SJIS/JIS processing bug, was corrupting outgoing lines
   in some situations.
61.Fixed links list window display bug.
62.Fixed /window -b not working on side-listbox.
63.Fixed /while loop handling bug when /break on same line.
64.Added support for unreal ircd numeric 489, sent when you try
   to join a channel with +z channel mode set and you are not
   using a secure/ssl connection.
65.Can now use $send(-1) and $get(-1) in on FILESENT/SENDFAIL/etc.
   events to refer to DCC associated with the event.
66.Fixed /fserve maxgets limit bug.
67.Added $hotlinepos, returns line and word position.
68.Added /url -ils switches, which insert a new item, and load
   and save the urls list.
69.Added $replacex() identifier, same as $replace() except that
   it ignores previous replacements in the line.
70.Fixed multi-monitor display bug.
71.Fixed /goto gpf with empty : goto points.
72.Fixed $regsub() handling of \ and $ characters.
73.Fixed DCC get via http proxy/socks bug.
74.Fixed firewall not releasing DCC-related sockets in some cases.
75.Added support for numeric 005 ELIST=MNUCTP token.
76.Fixed reload logs bug.

03/03/2004 - mIRC v6.14

Changes:
1.Fixed /links -n not minimizing window.
2.Fixed tooltip gpf bug.
3.DCC send/get results are now always displayed in the status
  window.
4.Non-custom @windows are now displayed in their saved positions
  on multi-monitor setups.
5.Fixed /write -lN running out of temporary filenames error bug,
  also affected a few other file related commands.
6.Fixed DCC received files menu when DCC folders changed in options
  dialog.
7.Fixed move server to top on connect option not working in some
  situations.
8.Fixed script editor not saving current editbox contents when
  current/another file is loaded/unloaded.
9.Added match method option in log view dialog.
10.Increased zeropad max value in $base() to 100.
11.Fixed $matchkey in on open event.
12.Improvied $addtok() $deltok() handling of $null.
13.Fixed handling of INI files when system file attribute set.
14.Fixed $+() handling of $null.
15.Fixed fill switchbar display bug with vertical switchbar.
16.Fixed DCC send/get timeout display bug.
17.Fixed gpf bug caused by /close in an on CHAT event.
18.Fixed send buffer overflow gpf when sending many commands to a
   server in a script all at once.
19.Fixed daylight savings time offset bug.
20.Moved port range to connect/advanced dialog, now applies to all
   connections.
21.Fixed editbox gpf bug when tab completion results in long text.
22.Tooltips now correctly use system tooltip font.
23.Fixed bug in /ignore and isignore when using/checking for applied
   switches.
24.Added /cnick -sN switch, sorts item into Nth position.
25.Fixed custom dialog icons display bug.
26.DCC ports range is no longer limited to 1024 and above.
27.Fixed nicknames being added to tab key list even if incoming
   message was ignored.
28.Fixed ctcp resume message not including original filename.
29.Fixed address book whois display bug.
30.Fixed /fopen not being able to open read-only files.
31.Fixed get active url feature in url editor dialog.
32.Fixed /qmsg and /qme display bug.
33.The $read() and $readini() identifiers no longer parse command
   separators by default. Added 'p' switch to enable this.
34.Fixed shift+control+v combination resulting in double-paste.
35.Fixed /ignore -w not removing network from an existing ignore
   item.
36.Fixed auto-get "if file exists" settings being applied even if
   auto-get wasn't enabled.
37.Fixed $send().resume returning incorrect value.
38.Fixed fileserver filename handling bug.
39.MDI window no longer displays horizontal/vertical scrollbars.
40.Switchbar now allows up to eight lines in height.
41.Fixed multi-threading gpf and memory loss issues.
42.Added reload logs feature to logs dialog, works with channel and
   chat windows. Loads up to the maximum window buffer value
   specified in the options/other dialog.
43.Updated libraries to zlib 1.2.1.
44.Added support for OpenSSL. The libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll
   OpenSSL 0.9.7c dlls must be downloaded separately from mIRC and
   placed in the mIRC folder. mIRC will load the dlls automatically
   if it finds them. $sslready can be used to determine whether mIRC
   has loaded the dlls successfully.

   To initiate a secure connection to an SSL capable server, you can
   use the /server -e switch, or prefix the port number with a plus
   sign, eg. +7001. $ssl can be used to determine whether a
   connection is secure or not.

   SSL settings can be found in the Connect/Options dialog, and are
   visible only when OpenSSL dlls are loaded.

46.Fixed $submenu() bug when returning $null for the begin menu item.
47.Fixed script parser bug when handling ; and rem comment prefixes
   in some situations.
48.Fixed $highlight(text) case-sensitivity bug, and added a .cs
   property.
49./echo can now target an open DCC chat window even if the DCC chat
   session has ended.
50.Fixed /filter gpf bug when /filter was being called a second time
   in the filter sort alias.
51.Fixed /unset not properly clearing a variable that was set with
   /inc -c.
52.Fixed bug with paste confirmation dialog, text was being pasted
   as a command even if the control key had been pressed.
53.Fixed server edit dialog allowing multiple entries with the same
   description.
54.Lines in listboxes are now the same height as those in the text
   display area in windows, allowing them to be aligned.
55.Fixed $com() dispatch pointers bug. You can now make mIRC create
   a new $com() object by specifying a dispatch* item as the last
   parameter in a $com() call, without a value.
56.Added lock option to disable /com features.
57.Fixed agent bug in ignore line if percentage of the line was
   non-text, if enabled it resulted in most lines not being spoken.
58.Added backup file on save option to editor.
59./.hop now hides display of hop message.
60.The /echo -sa swiches can now be used at the same time.
61.The /echo -bfh switches now affect custom @windows.
62.The recent servers list is now stored in [recent] in servers.ini
   and remembers servers that aren't in the servers list.
63.Fixed multi-server bug which may have caused a gpf/freeze in some
   situations.
64.The switchbar now displays scroll buttons when it is vertical and
   unable to fully show all windows. The mouse wheel can be used to
   scroll through the window list.
65.Fixed line marker bug, failed to behave correctly after a /clear.
66.Fixed Alt-Switchbar button bug when windows for a Status window
   were hidden, closing the status window was not re-displaying
   hidden @windows.
67.Fixed /msg chopping channel name at 60 characters.
68.Added /filter -z switch, remembers line color when copying from
   one @window to another.
69.Added $line().color property, returns line color.
70.Fixed fileserver DCC get bug.
71.Added dialog option to enable/disable the nick colors list.
72.Fixed $fline() regex case bug.
73.Fixed $cnick() bug resulting in non-match when modes were used.
74.Fixed on sockclose event triggering twice in some situations.
75.Added /server -jn switch where 'n' minimizes joined channels.
76.Fixed mark/copy right-click over editbox bug.
77.Fixed /scid -a gpf bug when used with /window -c.
78.Added Sort dialog to Window Menu, allows you to specify the sort
   order of Switchbar buttons and Windows.
79.Fixed tabkey channel completion with non-# channels.
80.Fixed /fseek regex gpf bug on long lines of text.
81.Fixed right-click titlebar roll/unroll bug.
82.Changed switchbar "sort buttons" behavior. Buttons are now always
   sorted into groups. However if the sort option is turned off, they
   are sorted according to creation time within groups as opposed to
   alphabetical sorting.
83.Fixed various multi-byte display/mark/copy bugs and improved
   SJIS/JIS support.
84.Fixed $line() not working with channels list window.
85.Added "None" sort method to channels list popup menu, displays
   channels in the order sent by the server.
86.Script errors can now be caught by adding an :error goto point to
   your script. When an error occurs, the script will jump to :error
   and continue running.

   $error returns the error message. You can reset the error with
   /reseterror. If you don't reset the error, it will propagate
   backwards to any calling aliases until an :error is found and
   will halt the script.

87.Improved text scrolling in windows to avoid jumps after lines
   rewrap.
88.Fixed while loop /continue bug in nested while loops.
89.Query/Chat windows now remember their individual font settings,
   also added "use default" option to font dialog.
90.Fixed bug in random server port selection while connecting.
91.Added /loadbuf -nm switches, where -n logs the loaded text to
   the log file (if logging is enabled for that window). The -m
   switch indicates that the loaded text is already time-stamped.
92.The find dialog in the script editor now automatically uses the
   word at the cursor.
93.Added right-click popup menu for urls list toolbar button.

13/10/2003 - mIRC v6.12

Changes:
1.Fixed DCC related gpf bug.
2.Fixed /dline gpf bug.
3.Fixed /rename not being able to rename dirs.
4.Fixed log files network/folder name bug.
5.Fixed about dialog not closing issue.
6.Fixed /hdec bug.
7.Fixed /color not remembering palette changes.
8.Fixed /mkdir failing if dir already exists.
9.Fixed custom dialogs border display bug.
10.Fixed /fwrite display bug.
11.Fixed /debug recursive gpf bug.

10/10/2003 - mIRC v6.11

Changes:
1.Fixed channel folders join bug, wasn't setting focus on a channel
  window properly.
2.Fixed raw on/off not setting/unsetting red dot in remote toolbar
  button.
3.Fixed /fwrite text display bug.
4.Fixed $duration(N,3) bug with large values.
5.Fixed $base() bug when converting decimal places from one base to
  another by limiting the maximum precision allowed.
6.Fixed /hdec bug.
7.Fixed /mkdir bug.
8.Extended $os to detect 2003.
9.Added language selection option to agents speech dialog. Must have
  the required agent language compenent installed.
10.Fixed /qmsg /qme display bug if not on a channel.
11.Reverted change relating to firewall exclude list, in some cases mIRC
   has to depend on the socks5 server to resolve the address.
12.Fixed switchbar option via View menu not showing/hiding minimized
   window icons.
13.Fixed servers popup menu gpf bug.
14.Reverted $submenu() change.
15.Fixed $comcall() $dllcall() gpfing with insufficient parameters.
16.Fixed favorites recent menu bug displaying channel keys.
17.Fixed Control+KN color bug when N was larger than 15.
18.Fixed favorites folder display of folder icons.
19.Favorites folder now allows multiple selection.
20.Fixed switchbar display bug when displaying the DCC send/get
   progress bar.
21.Fixed multi-byte mark/copy display bug.
22.Fixed gpf when attempting to load a corrupted png file.
23.Fixed bug with binary variables being unset too early in some
   situations.
24.Fixed identifier warning feature triggering on remote identifiers
   outside of remote events.
25.Fixed /color changes not being saved correctly.
26.Changed control/ignore dialog, now displays unignore seconds
   instead of minutes.
27.Fixed status window titlebar not showing "logging on" message
   when first connecting to a server.
28.Fixed /server not using the specified port.
29.mIRC no longer performs a soft disconnect.
30.Fixed right-click channel/query popup menus sometimes using
   incorrect nickname.
31.Fixed keys not working in popup menu items that don't use the
   & prefix.
32.Empty lines in popup menu scripts are no longer removed.
33.Fixed custom dialog tab control display bug.
34.Fixed Right-Alt key bug. Still works correctly as AltGr on
   keyboard layouts that use AltGr.
35.Added $sorttok(text,a) switch which sorts both text and numbers
   in a list. $sorttok(text,n) now behaves as it did in previous
   versions.
36.Changed /away handling, and fixed $awaytime.
37.Changed various API file-handling calls to c-runtime counterparts
   due to API calls resulting in some strange behaviors (most likely
   due to buffering) when used intensively.
38.Fixed duplicate separators bug in popup menus.
39.Fixed $highlight().color returning incorrect color index. If no
   color is selected, returns index for Normal text color.
40.Changed /fopen behavior, now fails if file doesn't exist. The
   -n switch creates a new file, fails if it exists. And -o creates
   a new file, overwrites if it exists.
41.$fopen() now returns $null if you reference a name that does
   not exist.
42.Fixed $md5() bug with plain text containing % characters.
43.Nick color list now uses the ignore/protect/etc. lists even if
   ignore/protect/etc. in the control dialog are not enabled.
44.Address book whois section no longer strips control codes.
45.Control+M in the script editor now displays the More dialog. The
   Editbox in the More dialog now performs auto-completion.
46.Fixed "move server to top on connect" option not always moving
   the last connect server to top.
47.Improved dual monitor handling for @windows and custom dialogs.
   The script editor is still displayed in its last saved position.
48.Fixed $mask() gpf bug with long parameters.
49.Fixed /timerN without parameters listing all timers.
50.Added /echo -c color name switch, eg. /echo -c action text. The
   line color uses the selected theme in the colors dialog.
51.Fixed $* gpf bug.
52.Added auto-hide nick list option in channel nick list dialog.
53.During a DCC resume, the last 8192 bytes are chopped off only once
   the transfer actually begins.
54.Fixed /hload and /hsave with binary files when some items in table
   are empty.
55.Fixed windows not being auto-tiled when switchbar is moved.
56.$online now returns value based on settings in timer dialog.
57.Fixed DDE gpf bug.
58.Fixed /filter numeric sorting bug.
59.Added /showmirc -m switch, minimizes according to tray options.
60.Fixed $fline() bug with wrapped lines.
61.Fixed numeric 472 not being displayed or processed by scripts.
62.Added support for server password in irc://password@server links.
63.Fixed menu handling bug that affected the favorites popup menu as
   well as various other menus under 95/NT.
64.Fixed /fseek -wr bug when the last line in a file did not end
   in a CRLF.

29/08/2003 - mIRC v6.1

Changes:
1.Fixed editboxes in options/custom dialogs using double-border when
  themes are enabled.
2.Fixed default browser issue.
3.Fixed $serverip bug.
4.The $awaytime value is now available in scripts that handle numeric
  305.
5.Fixed $isid when used as first parameter in $iif().
6.Fixed $nick().idle time being incorrectly reset in certain
  situations, eg. /mode changes on a nickname.
7.Fixed listbox size in firewall dialog.
8.Fixed $sorttok() not handling negative numbers.
9.Fixed custom window visual style display bug.
10.Fixed $input() bug when multiple $input() dialogs were opened at
   the same time.
11.Fixed /set /inc /dec -cz bug which caused -cz to stop in some
   situations.
12.Fixed $script() and $alias() bug when handling LFNs.
13.Fixed /amsg and /ame trying to send to non-joined channels.
14.Double-clicking on web/ftp hotlink now displays a warning dialog
   before the site is opened.
15.Fixed /color bug.
16.Fixed Control + mark/copy not working in custom windows.
17.Fixed /background bug, wasn't applying settings in some
   situations.
18.Extended $os to detect NET.
19.Fixed Editor dialog bug, was not reading text in the editbox
   correctly in some situations.
20.All Socks5 firewall error messages are now displayed correctly.
21.Added /play [-a] [alias] [channel/nick/stop] <filename> [delay]
   makes /play use specified alias instead of /msg or /notice.
22.Files opened for logging, sends/gets, etc. are no longer limited
   to a maximum total of 50 or so open files.
23./dcc commands, such as /dcc send, ignore, etc. are now also
   handled in the form /dccsend, /dccignore, etc.
24.Added 'r' switch regex match method to $read() and /write.
25.Added /clipboard -n switch, appends $crlf to text.
26.Added /dcc nick -sgcf <oldnick> <newnick>, allows you to change
   the nickname associated with a DCC send/get/chat/fserve.
27.Added $file().shortfn/longfn properties.
28.Nicknames in channel part/quit messages now show mode prefix.
29.Added multsel value for custom dialog listbox controls.
30.Uninstaller will now work even if you have other copies of mIRC
   running.
31.Now using Visual C++ .NET 7.0 to compile mIRC.
32.Fixed memory bug relating to registry handling.
33.The /did -cf switches now scroll the cursor into view when used
   on an editbox.
34./window now handles negative font sizes correctly.
35./window -o now displays a desktop window in a non-active state.
36.Fixed /drawtext default colors and font/size bugs.
37.Fixed tab completion wildcard handling bug for identifiers and
   variables.
38.Added support for .jpeg extension.
39.Fixed /play -e display bug.
40.$duration() can now handle h:m:s format and if N = 3 it outputs
   in h:m:s format.
41.Fixed /hop bug when part message specified.
42.Extended $crc(text|&binvar|filename,[N]) where N = 0 for plain
   text, 1 for &binvar, 2 for filename (default).
43.Extended $disk(path|N) where N = 0 for total available drives,
   and N > 0 to access each drive. $disk().path returns drive path.
44.Pressing enter key in a DCC get dialog while focus is in editbox
   now accepts the DCC.
45.Added identifier warning option to editor dialog options menu,
   halts script if identifier doesn't exist.
46.Fixed /aop bug.
47.Fixed /whois related memory bug.
48.The "no such nick" message is now shown only in the query window
   if one is open.
49.Added /qmsg and /qme, send message/action to all open query
   windows.
50.If "hide desktop windows when minimized" is enabled, can now hold
   down shift key when minimizing to prevent hiding.
51.Channels list files are now saved to their own channels folder.
52.Fixed $bvar().long/word bug when used with a binary variable
   containing insufficient bytes.
53.Changed DCC section in Options dialog, moved Ignore to own
   section, and Folders section now uses a listview control.
54.Changed default visual styles.
55.Notify list dialog now uses listview, and added notify offline
   sound.
56.Added $ceil(N) and $floor(N), round to next highest or next
   lowest integer.
57.Fixed $asin(), $acos(), and $atan() bugs.
58.Fixed /playctrl gpf bug.
59.Fixed /ignore -wuN combination causing unignore to fail.
60.Fixed "use default" not working in background menu item for
   channel windows.
61.Added $msfile(dir,title,oktext) identifier, same as $sfile() but
   allows selection of multiple files. Returns N, number of selected
   files. $msfile(N) returns each file. If a user selects too many
   files, $msfile() returns -1.
62.Updated libraries to PNG 1.2.5, zlib 1.1.4, and PCRE v4.3.
63.Fixed $base() bug.
64.Fixed $group() bug.
65.Fixed editor dialog not re-aligning and spacing out text when a
   file is changed and saved.
66.Fixed $chan().limit and other related bugs.
67.Fixed list channels dialog gpf bug.
68.Added custom file-handling commands and identifiers, which allow
   you to open multiple files for reading and writing.

   /fopen [-n] <name> <filename>
       If file open fails, script continues to run. See $ferr
       and $feof below.

   /fclose <name | wildcard>
       Closes specified files.

   /flist [name | wildcard]
       Lists open files

   /fseek <name> <position>
       -l <name> <line number>
       -n <name> <next line>
       -w <name> <wildcard>
       -r <name> <regex>

       Sets read/write pointer to specified position in file.

   /fwrite [-bn] <name> <text | &binvar>
       -b indicates that a &binvar is being specified
       -n appends a cr/lf to the line

   $fopen(name | N) .fname .pos .eof .err
       .eof and .err must be checked after each file access
       command or identifier, since file access errors will
       not halt a script.

   $fread(name | N)
       Returns next cr/lf delimited line.

   $fread(name | N, M, &binvar)
       Returns number of bytes read into binary variable, where
       M is the number of bytes to read.

   $fgetc(name | N)
       Returns character value

   $feof and $ferr
       May be used to refer to the result of the last file
       access attempt in any script, where $feof = end of file
       was reached, and $ferr = error accessing file.

69.Added file type ignore warning, which pops up when a file type is
   ignored, and explains why, with a direct link to the options
   dialog, DCC ignore section.
70.Extended /drawpic, can now draw icons from ico/exe/dll files.
71.Fixed $findfile() not halting on control+break key in some cases.
72.Added $rawmsg, returns raw server line for server events.
73.Fixed background picture fill/stretch/etc. display bug in windows.
74.Extended $send()/$get() .status propery to also return "sent",
   "received", and "failed". The .done property is still supported.
75.All alias and remote files in the Editor can now be unloaded, and
   a default empty file will be created.
76.Changed buttons in all dialogs to standard size. Many dialogs were
   re-designed to accomodate this.
77.Browse folder button in DCC get dialog now shows a folder icon.
78.Play button in sounds dialog now shows a play icon.
79.Changed the way the add/delete buttons work in the Address book
   dialog, and made changes to the info section.
80.Simplified connect dialog, and added a separate servers dialog.
81.Added a new section to servers.ini, with the following format:

   [networks]
   n0=Quakenet
   n1=EFnet
   n2=Undernet
   n3=DALnet

   A newly installed mIRC, which is missing the "host" entry in the
   [mirc] section in mirc.ini, will select an initial random server
   from this list.

82.Added $file().attr, returns file attributes.
83.Fixed $regsub() gpf bug with long strings.
84.Can now use /* and */ to comment out multiple lines in an alias,
   popup, or script. Each must be used alone on a single line.
85.Fixed script custom @menu gpf bug.
86.Fixed tabbed dialogs display bug.
87.Fixed line marker being saved to log/buffer as empty line.
88.The /dns command now indicates if a request is being queued.
89.Fixed /echo -iN display bug causing indented part of a wrapped
   line to display control codes.
90.In the DCC Resume and Accept ctcp messages, mIRC now uses the
   original transfer filename instead of "file.ext".
91.A single toolbar button is now used for the editor dialog. The
   red light is now on when any of ctcp/event/raw are enabled, and
   off when they are all disabled. A right-click on the toolbar
   button now displays a most recently used files list.
92.Fixed "on top" setting for main mIRC window not being set on
   startup.
93.Merge logfiles feature now closes all open logs before attempting
   a merge and then reopens the logs after the merge is finished.
94.Fixed memory bug in logfiles merge dialog.
95.Added $input() options: 'r' creates a retrycancel dialog, 'd'
   plays the system sound associated with each system icon, 'g' right
   aligns buttons.
96.Channels list now displays channel names which begin with a non-
   recognized prefix.
97.On a throttled connection attempt, mIRC will now wait 60 seconds.
98.Fixed mIRC not opening a new webbrowser for "latest news", "how to
   register" etc. links.
99.Fixed bug in "On Send" setting in catcher dialog.
100.Channel central topic editbox is now limited to TOPICLEN length
    specific in server numeric 005.
101.Fixed timed unban in /ban command not working with half-ops.
102.Search option in View Logs dialog now actually searches through
    files for matching text, as well as matching on the filename.
103.Added /ban -k switch, performs a ban/kick. You can specify a kick
    message as the last parameter.
104.Incoming part messages are no longer truncated to 65 characters.
105.Added Alt+D shortcut to open Aliases section in script editor,
    due to conflicting Alt+A in Favorites menu. The Favorites menu
    can however be turned off, in which case Alt+A will revert to
    opening Aliases.
106.Added "navigation clicks" to sounds dialog, makes a sound when
    you click on a url or hotlink such as a channel/user name.
107.Changed the way colors are referenced for events text in windows
    so that colors are now an index to the color type eg. "Normal
    text", as opposed to the 16 color palette.
108.The log view dialog now allows you to merge/delete files that are
    in use. It closes log files if necessary before using them, and
    then re-opens them afterwards.
109.Empty lines are now stripped out of popup menu definitions in
    editor dialog.
110.Many interface changes and improvements.
111.Added color scheme option to colors dialog to allow you to switch
    between different color schemes easily.
112.Fixed /server -n -i bug not setting nicknames in new server
    window.
113.Fixed irc:// links not using default port value.
114.Fixed main menu flickering when switching windows.
115.Fixed /amsg and /ame bug when a long message is specified.
116.Fixed $submenu() bug, was over-evaluating parameters.
117.Fixed /rename bug.
118.Notify list now displays network name and server address.
119.Fixed $bfind() bug.
120.Fixed $base() floating point handling bug.
121.When repeatedly calling /notify to add multiple nicknames to the
    notify list, mIRC now pauses for one second before updating the
    server to prevent flooding.
122.The $() identifier used in the matchtext section of a remote
    event definition can now use $1- to reference the incoming line.
123.The matchtext section of a remote event definition can now
    contain a regular expression. You must specify the $ event prefix
    to use this feature.

    on $*:TEXT:m/regular expression/switches:#:/echo message: $1-

    The 'm' and switches are optional. The // are required. If
    switches are used they must be standard PCRE switches, otherwise
    the match will fail. You can use switch 'S' to strip control
    codes from $1-.

124.On systems that support it, mIRC uses the new format for the
    browse for folder dialog, eg. $sdir() etc.
125.Added toolbar disconnect confirm option: requires two clicks
    to disconnect from a server, to prevent accidental disconnects.
126.Fixed $mp3() not returning correct .length for large mp3s.
127.The on CONNECTFAIL event now sets $1- to the error message.
128.Fixed $isdde() bug.
129.Added /color -s "scheme name" to allow changing of color schemes,
    and /color -l to reload color settings from mirc.ini.
130.Individual incoming lines (numeric 322 during a channel listing)
    can now be /halted in a script.
131.Fixed popup menu resources bug. Submenus which were merged due to
    duplicate names were not being freed afterwards.
132.Control+Enter with a /! prefixed command now triggers on INPUT.
133.Changing the flash settings in IRC options now applies them to
    all open windows (whose flash settings weren't manually enabled).
134.Fixed finger server bug.
135.Added $line().state property, returns selection state for a line
    in a @window listbox.
136.Control+Break no longer halts a script if it is pressed while
    mIRC is not the active application.
137.Fixed long script filenames not being displayed correctly in
    Editor dialog.
138.Added $didreg() identifier, same as $didwm() but uses regex.
139.Extended $fline(), where the T parameter can be 1 to use a
    listbox, 2 to use regex, or 3 for both.
140.Closing a debug @window now turns off debugging for that server.
141.Added "paste confirm" option to confirm dialog, displays warning
    you when you try to paste more than N lines of text to a window.
142.Added Key combination Alt+X to toggle maximized state of a
    window.
143.Binary variables no longer have an upper limit on the number of
    bytes that can be stored.
144.Added $compress(file|&binvar, blN) and $decompress(file|&binvar, blN)
    that compress/decompress files/binary variables. The result is
    raw compressed data. Where -b indicates a binary variable in the
    first parameter, and -lN sets a compression level of 1 to 6 (the
    default is 6).
145.Added /write -n switch, prevents /write from appending the line
    with a $crlf.
146.Using /hdec on a non-existent hash table item now sets it to a
    default value of -1.
147.Added /debug -i <...> [identifier] which calls the specified
    identifier before a debug line is logged. The return value of
    the identifier is used as the debug line.
148.The "enable" sounds option in the sounds dialog now affects most
    sounds, including highlight, notify, window/icon flashing, etc.
    Sound requests and Agents still need to be enabled/disabled
    individually. This does not affect the use of sound-related
    commands in scripts.
149.Pressing Control-C while marking text in a window now copies the
    text and cancels the mark process.
150.Added /server -pfoc switches, which prevent: perform, popup
    favorites folder, autojoin channels, and on connect event, on
    connecting to a server.
151.Time and date identifiers eg. $ctime() now return $null if an
    invalid time/date is specified.
152.Status window switchbar button now displays highlight state of
    associated windows hidden with Alt+F1.
153.Disconnecting via the file menu/toolbar/disconnect command now
    results in a soft disconnect, allowing any pending server info
    to be displayed. Incoming data will not trigger scripts, etc.
    during this time.
154.Added "show nicks on join" option to IRC options dialog.
155.Added "Alt+Z closes active window" option to keys dialog.
156.The $ticks identifier should now take account of the 49.7 day
    windows tick counter wrapping around to zero.
157.When connecting to a server, named addresses are now resolved
    before checking for a match in the firewall exclude list.
158.Fixed "session time" not being written to log files at midnight.
159.Fixed $modefirst and $modelast not working in on op/deop/etc.
    events.
160.Status window titlebar now displays connect info when you are not
    connected to a server.
161.$calc($null) now returns zero instead of $null.
162.Fixed $dns(0).ip not returning ip address for a failed ip address
    lookup.
163.Fixed $rand() number distribution bug.
164.Fixed mark/copy display bug.
165.Fixed /did not showing/hiding tabs and their contents properly.
166.Added $comcall(name, alias,...) and $dllcall(filename, alias,...)
    identifiers, same format as $com() and $dll(), except these
    return immediately and allow the script to continue running. When
    the COM/DLL returns, the specified alias is called.

16/08/2002 - mIRC v6.03

Changes:
1.Fixed perform on connect sorting bug.
2.Fixed numeric 330 bug.
3.Fixed menubar and toolbar flickering when switching windows.
4.Fixed ! on INPUT processing bug.
5.Fixed $read/etc. freeze bug when used with invalid filenames.
6./window -o no longer activates a window.
7.Fixed switchbar multi-line display bug.
8.Fixed /window -h and Alt+F1 bug.
9.Fixed up/down keys not working in certain windows.
10.Fixed DCC ignore bug.
11.Fixed /timer bug, was triggering too early in some situations.
12.Fixed /window -h displaying minimized icon for a window when
   switchbar was turned off.
13.Shift+DoubleClick on a line in the Channels List window now
   joins the channel minimized.
14.Fixed bug in highlight feature.
15.Fixed remote toolbar button right-click menu bug.
16.Nick color list now allows you to add an item with no color
   selected.
17.Fixed background picture display bug when a window is resized.
18.Fixed listbox selection/cursor bug which affected listboxes in
   dialog windows.
19.Fixed /load command triggering multiple on load events.
20.mIRC now supports the IRCX events KNOCK, WHISPER, EVENT, PROP
   on any server that sends them, not just an IRCX server.
21.Added on LOGON event, triggers before and after mIRC sends the
   standard PASS, NICK, and USER messages to the server.

   on ^*:LOGON:*:echo Logging on to $network $server
   on *:LOGON:*:echo Logged on to $network $server

   If you /halt the event, mIRC will not send the standard logon
   messages, allowing to send your own messages.

22.mIRC will again try to rejoin a channel even if it was +i or
   +k, since there are situations on some networks where the rejoin
   will work.
23.Fixed /set -u0 bug not unsetting variables in some situations.
24.Fixed enter key bug in empty channel nicklist.
25.Changed $ticks back to old method due to bug in Windows high
   performance timer which returned incorrect values.
26.Now handles numeric 378 in whois replies.
27.Fixed fileserver window not being closed on a time-out.
28.Fixed window active titlebar display bug when certain Window
   tile/cascade options were enabled.
29.Fixed /did -k not triggering events again if halted once.
30.Fixed debug window not showing entire raw line if it contained
   a $cr or $lf.
31.Fixed on START bug caused by loading custom dialogs during the
   event.
32.Fixed memory bug in script parser.
33.Fixed /load /unload not treating short/long filenames as the
   same file.
34.Notify list titlebar now shows total number of notify users
   online across all server connections.
35.Added $window().sbtext and .sbcolor properties.
36.Can now mark/copy text backwards or forwards.
37.Fixed $base() bug not handling negative numbers correctly.
38.Added $ialchan().pnick property.
39.Added $serverip identifier, returns server ip address.
40.Added /editbox -f switch, sets editbox focus.
41.Added $nick().idle property, returns idle time in seconds for
   nick on a channel, ie. the time since the user last sent a
   message to the channel.
42.Fixed on CONNECTFAIL bug.
43.Fixed $mklogfn() bug.
44.Fixed proxy authentication bug.
45.Added idle time option to nick color list dialog. Also added
   $cnick().idle property.
46.Fixed $asctime() bug.
47.Fixed /ignore -u bug.
48.Added exception masks option to firewall dialog.
49.Fixed DCC server ignore bug.
50.Can now specify %variables in a dialog item definition, and the
   %variable will be set with the contents of that item when the
   dialog is closed, eg.

   edit "", 2, 10 10 100 20, autohs %test

51.Online timer now handles multi-server connections.
52.Changed $input(prompt,N,window,title,text), where N is:

   e - show input editbox
   p - show input password editbox
   o - ok button
   y - yesno buttons
   n - yesnocancel buttons
   v - return $ok, $yes, $no, $cancel for buttons

   iqwh - show the info, question, warning, and hand icons

   s - indicates that window name has been specified
   a - activate dialog

53.Fixed @window menu bug relating to $1 value when no item was
   selected in a listbox.
54.Added $md5(text|&binvar|filename,[N]) identifier, where N = 0
   for plain text (default), 1 for &binvar, 2 for filename.

06/06/2002 - mIRC v6.02

Changes:
1.Fixed tab key nick completion bug.
2.Fixed window tiling bug when a maximized window is closed while
  auto-tile/cascade is enabled.
3.Fixed /dcc trust bug.
4.Fixed on keydown/keyup events in custom @windows not handling some
  keys.
5.Fixed editboxes limiting amount of text that can be entered.
6.Fixed DCC sends/chats not being auto-minimized when switchbar was
  turned off.
7.$ticks now uses a different method to get the ticks value.
8.Extended /drawsave -qN to save .jpg files with quality N, where
  N is between 1 and 100.
9.Custom dialog initial size now takes account of wrapped menubar
  height.
10.Fixed memory handling bug in jpg loading routine.
11.Extended switchbar multi-line option in display dialog.
12.Added Options dialog to Window menu.
13.Inverted /drawpic -m switch, now uses slower better quality method
   only when -m is specified.
14.Fixed mIRC always adding itself to the tray if the tray is restarted
   even if tray option wasn't enabled.
15.Added /dialog -h switch, works same as -i in /timer and /window,
   makes dialog hop between connections.
16.The on CLOSE event is now again triggered for open windows when
   mIRC exits.
17.mIRC now uses the default system cursor for hotlinks.
18.mIRC now uses the command "LIST stop" to stop the channels list
   from the server, on all IRC networks.
19.Fixed /flash bug.
20.Fixed /ignore -r bug.
21.Fixed DCC get file exists dialog bug incorrectly truncating file
   before rename.
22.Fixed DCC server protocol bug when rejecting a connection.
23.The on INPUT event is no longer triggered for commands that use
   the ! command prefix.
24.Fixed $style() menu option not being set in some situations.
25.Fixed $inrect() bug.
26.Fixed /drawcopy bug, was copying one pixel too many.
27.Extended Channels Folder Add/Edit dialog to allow selection of
   multiple networks for each channel entry.
28.Fixed fserve window time-out beep/closing bug.
29.Fixed connection wizard dialog bug.
30.Fixed * Disconnected not being displayed in channel window in
   some situations.
31.Fixed tooltip display bug.
32.Fixed /notify /ignore /protect /aop /avoice not always applying
   nick color settings after changes.
33.Fixed bugs in DCC trust feature.
34.Added ignore option to DCC trust dialog.
35.Fixed /sound lpt1/com1/etc. bug under Win2k.
36.Editing an item in the highlight dialog no longer changes the
   position of the item.
37.Fixed $dccignore(N) bug when N = 0.
38.Fixed $submenu() not working in picture @windows.
39.Fixed ctcp finger reply not evaluating user name if it contained
   variables or identifiers.
40.Fixed /hdel -w bug, wasn't unsetting items which had been created
   with the -z switch.
41.Notify list window titlebar now shows total number of users in
   list.
42.Perform on connect section now allows you to specify a different
   set of commands for each network. Moved perform dialog to connect
   section.
43.Fixed $input() bugs.
44.If a $cid ceases to exist during execution of a script, eg. if
   /window -c is used to close a status window, mIRC now re-assigns
   the script to an existing $cid.
45.Fixed scrollbar display bug in windows in some situations.
46.Fixed /window and $mouse.dx/dy bugs when windows taskbar positioned
   at left/top of desktop.
47.Fixed mIRC not using system default for browser/email programs.
48.Fixed $active/$lactive bug.
49.Fixed bug which caused custom dialog to lose focus when window was
   closed with /window -c.
50.Fixed /set -u0 bug not unsetting variables in some situations.
51.The "unable to join channel" message is now displayed in the status
   window and in the channel window.
52.Strip codes option in logging dialog now also strips control codes
   from the timestamp.
53.Separators at the bottom of a custom menu definition are no longer
   stripped out from a menu.
54.Fixed $gettok() bug when handling negative N values.
55.Can now use /font to set font settings in mirc.ini for non-open
   windows.
56.mIRC no longer closes a channel window on reconnect to a server
   if you have keep channels open enabled.
57.mIRC no longer attempts to rejoin a channel on reconnect if the
   channel was +i, or if it was +k and mIRC didn't have the key.
58.Fixed /window -f bug when used on hidden @windows.
59.DCC Sends/Gets that fail during transfer now show cps/time info
   in status window message.
60.$var() now evalutes the first parameter if it isn't a %variable.
61.Dlls opened by $dll() or /dll are now closed before mIRC closes
   all other windows on exit.
62.Can now use %variables in custom dialog table definitions for
   control size/position values.
63.Fixed /dcc send not handling UNC format filenames correctly.
64.Fixed MIME $encode()/$decode() bug when processing &binvars
   that contained zero values.
65.Can now use $* as a parameter to an alias.
66.Fixed $bvar().word/nword/long/nlong properties, now return an
   unsigned value.
67.Fixed infinite recursion bug when using /timer -e switch.
68.DCC Get Resume dialog now shows current and incoming file size.
69.Added on dialog close event.
70.Custom dialogs no longer require an ok or cancel button.
71.Added $sin()/$cos()/etc. .deg property to treat number as degrees
   instead of radians.
72.$window().type for custom windows now returns: custom, picture,
   and listbox.
73.Mozilla is now used correctly when opening URLs.
74.Changed "Group by Network" behavior.
75.You can now use $dns(0).nick/addr/ip to reference properties if an
   address couldn't be resolved.
76.Fixed memory handling bug when using /sockwrite * wildcard format.
77.Added /window -R switch, resets window position to previously saved
   position.
78./nick changes are now saved to mirc.ini immediately.
79.Fixed bug with second editbox not appearing when you are voiced on
   a channel.
80.Fixed nick in channel/query window titlebar not being updated on a
   nick change if "Show nick in channel/query titlebars" was enabled.
81.Using $hget(name, item, &binvar) where item is a non-existent item
   now returns 0 and does not create the &binvar.
82.Added /hload and /hsave -i switch, saves hash table in INI file
   format. Can specify optional [section] name after filename.
83.$regex() now handles empty strings correctly.
84.Rejoin channels on connect option now combines JOINs for multiple
   channels.
85.Fixed /socklist display bug for listening connections.
86.Extended $hfind(name/N, text, N, M) to handle wildcard/regex
   matches. Where M is:

   n - normal text comparison (default if M isn't specified)
   w - text is wildcard text
   W - hash table item/data is wildcard text
   r - text is regular expression
   R - hash table item/data is regular expression

   Note: $hmatch() and $hregex() are still supported for now but
   are no longer listed in the help file.

87.Fixed mouse button right-click popup menu bug when connected to
   multiple servers.
88.The second parameter in a /who request is no longer treated as a
   filter string if it does not contain a wildcard character.
89.Fixed bug relating to time and timezone handling, happened only
   in certain timezones.
90.The /aop /avoice /protect /ignore commands now allow you to
   specify a network name as the last parameter.
91.Updated Regular Expression library to PCRE v3.9.
92.Updated PNG library to PNG v1.2.1.
93.Added sort button to control dialog.
94.Can now specify wildcard name in /close command.
95.Fixed bug in Copy messages to Query window feature.
96.The -r and -l switches now work the same way in /aop /ignore
   /avoice and /protect.
97.Added on CONNECTFAIL event, same format as on CONNECT, triggers
   when a connection attempt (including retries) has failed.
98.Added /clearall -snqmtgu switches, where s = status, n = channel,
   q = query, m = message window, t = chat, g = finger, u = custom.
   If no switches are specified all windows are cleared.
99.Added /bread -t switch, reads data up to the next CR/LF.
100.Added "Flush files" option to DCC Options dialog.
101.Fixed /timer bug, may not have been triggering correctly in some
    situations.
102.Show whois in active window now handles /whois nick1,nick2,etc.
103.Added IRCX-specific fix for handling messages sent by a channel
    to a user, eg. #channel PRIVMSG nick :message. mIRC only supports
    this format when connected to an IRCX server.
104.Added Alt+LeftClick on Status Window switchbar button, shows/hides
    all switchbar buttons associated with the status window. New windows
    will always have their buttons displayed even if the hide option is
    on. Can also use Alt+F1 to show/hide buttons.
105.$mask() now handles ^ and = as userid prefixes.
106.Fixed List Channels dialog bug which caused it to lose settings in
    some situations.
107.The on DIALOG mouse event now triggers over controls in a dialog
    and $did is set to the control id value.
108.Added on DIALOG active event, works with $dialog().active.

10/02/2002 - mIRC v6.01

Changes:
1.Fixed MDI border display bug when windows are opened while mIRC
  is minimized.
2.Added visual styles dialog to display dialog.
3.mIRC no longer changes all paths/filenames to lower case.
4.Fixed notify list being lost if you used command line parameters
  in a shortcut icon to change the default INI filename.
5.Fixed /cnick -an bug.
6.Fixed IRCX support for MS servers.
7.Fixed $target bug in channel events.
8.Fixed $dns(N) always returning a value, even if N was invalid.
9.Fixed on NOSOUND event not triggering.
10.Added Show away in active window option to IRC dialog.
11.Added /editbox -o switch, applies to the second editbox in a
   channel window.
12.Extended $editbox(window,N), where N = 1 applies to second
   editbox in a channel window.
13.Channel Central and Folder dialogs are now closed only when you
   disconnect the connection on which the dialogs were opened.
14.Fixed /ignore -u bug multi-server support.
15.Fixed display of small buttons in finger/chat/find dialogs
   under XP.
16.Added irc:// link options to catcher dialog.
17.Fixed password editbox in Lock dialog not allowing enough
   characters to be entered under XP.
18.The channel central dialog will now always popup centered over
   the channel window where it was called.
19.Added $cmdbox, returns $true if script was called from the
   command editbox in a channel.
20.The /fullname and /username commands now correctly update their
   settings before a connection is made.
21.Fixed DCC send/get/chat/fileserver timeout message bug.
22.Fixed $eval() bug when handling N parameter.
23.Fixed $hget() bug when .item or .data was specified with an
   out of range N value.
24.Fixed query window titlebar not displaying user address even if
   user was in IAL.
25.Fixed notify nickname hotlinks not working.
26.$disk(a:) no longer causes a windows dialog to pop up if there
   is no disk in the drive.
27.Fixed titlebar right-click option not working on desktop windows.
28.Fixed /whois away reply resetting $awaytime value.
29.Made DDE delay editbox width larger in options dialog.
30.Fixed /play not being cancelled if unable to play to nick/channel.
31.Fixed channel central ban list appearing in status window in
   some situations.
32.Local info server lookup method now holds on to any host or ip
   address that it has, even if the DNS lookup for that address
   failed. This means that if numeric 001 or a /whois or /userhost
   returns your IP, mIRC will use it even if it can't resolve your
   host from it.
33.Fixed Agent support in Sounds dialog.
34.Identd should again work for any external applications, not just
   for mIRC connections.
35.Menu items created by $submenu() can now call local -l aliases.
36.Fixed $sfile() titlebar text bug.
37.Switching between maximized windows no longer causes flicker.
38.Chat/query windows now only prevent you from closing a window
   if an incoming message appeared in the window, not your own
   typed message.
39.mIRC is now a bit more lenient with CTCP message formats.
40.$address now returns address of the server that sent the server
   message.
41.Fixed while loop break/continue bug.
42.Added /drawsave -bN switch, specifies number of bits.
43.Added -m switch to /draw commands, changes the stretch mode
   quality when a picture is resized.
44./dcc get now overrides the "sort by nicks into own folder"
   option in DCC folder items.
45.A /mode on join is no longer sent went joining a modeless
   +channel.
46.Added /dcc trust [-r] <on | off | nick | address | level>
   to add/remove items to DCC trust dialog, and $trust(N) to
   return items in trust list.
47.Fixed DCC send/get/chat timing out when system time changed.
48.Channel nicklists are now cleared after the on DISCONNECT
   event has been triggered on a disconnection.
49.Flash option for a highlight item now flashes continuously,
   whereas the sound is played only N times.
50.Can now use $opnick in on owner/deowner events again.
51.Fixed /server N gpf bug where N is a non-existent Nth server.
52.Fixed connection related gpf bug.
53.Fixed DCC send/get windows not showing "transfer incomplete" in
   some situations when a transfer fails.
54.Improved /ignore /protect etc. handling of network/non-network
   specific addresses.
55.Added /server [-i nick anick email name] [-j #channel pass]
   switches, must be used after the server parameters.
56.Added "User id from email address" to identd dialog.
57.Fixed on close ? event triggering when status window is closed.
58.Fixed $sound() bug.
59.Fixed /whowas and /whois away message handling bug.

03/02/2002 - mIRC v6.0

Changes:
1.Fixed /filter numeric sorting bug.
2.Fixed $hget().data bug.
3.Fixed Nick color listbox display bug.
4.Fixed $mask() not handling masked address.
5.Channel nick list is now cleared when you disconnect from a server
  and you have "keep channels open" enabled.
6.Added /flush -l switch, removes only the specified levels from
  entries in the user list, instead of removing the entries.
7.Added $mnick back, returns your primary nickname.
8.The max cps fserve option now allows a DCC send to use up the full
  max cps if no other DCCs are using the bandwidth.
9.Speeded up the way the servers list is handled in many routines,
  including identifiers such as $server().
10.Fixed mIRC not processing ports correctly in server definition
   if password contains a - character.
11.Improved the way /dcc get works, now also allows you to redirect
   a file to any folder.
12.Fixed switchbar display bug with overlapping buttons.
13.Fixed topic text being highglighted in channel central when dialog
   is displayed.
14.mIRC now recognizes MS IRC Server 6.0 as IRCX.
15.Fixed /whois, etc. bug in query windows which was causing a command
   to use the wrong nickname.
16.Fixed /drawrect -d bug.
17.Fixed /filter not working with local aliases.
18.Fixed $! not being passed in $iif() call.
19.Added /notify -l switch to list notify entries.
20.Added dialog -l table definition switch, makes a dialog table local,
   now also looks for dialog table in the active remote file before
   searching through all others.
21.Added command line switch -nouninst which prevents mIRC from adding
   an uninstall item to the control panel add/remove dialog.
22.Fixed switchbar, in left/right position, not displaying partial button
   at bottom.
23.Fixed selecting MDI window menu item in tray menu not redisplaying
   mIRC window properly.
24.Open Folder button in DCC Get dialog is now enabled even if transfer
   fails.
25.Fixed #$N- bug.
26.Added /ial [on | off] back for users who need to disable the IAL.
27.Fixed "monitor file changes" option not working with LFNs.
28.File/Folder dialogs and sub-dialogs no longer show "mIRC" in titlebar.
29.Uninstaller now deletes files in the root mIRC folder only and not
   in sub-folders.
30.Added "Reset default size" option to nicklist dialog.
31.Wheel mouse now scrolls listbox without it needing focus.
32.Added set/use default options to system menu background popup.
33.Fixed window tiling overlap bug.
34.Added 'flat' and "multi' styles to custom dialog button control.
35.Can now create a second editbox on channel windows, via the channel
   window system menu and right-click menu in editbox.  You can use
   Alt+Q to show/hide the editbox.

   Also added "Tab key changes editbox focus" to General dialog,
   makes it easier to switch to the second editbox. The tab key still
   works as nick/channel/etc. completion if cursor is next to a word.

   If enabled, you need to use Shift-Tab to cycle between the list of
   nicks that messaged you.

36.Blink feature now only blinks icons for query/chat windows, and
   on channels or the message window only if a highlight event was
   triggered.
37.Fixed /exit not closing mIRC if Editor dialog is open.
39.Updated color dialog, also added inactive editbox option.
40.A DCC resume now chops off the last 8192 bytes of a file in case
   the end of the file was corrupted during a previous transfer.
41.Added /tnick command, changes to a temporary nickname without
   affecting your main and alternate nickname settings.
42.$window(-3).dw/dh now return the display area of the MDI window.
43.Fixed Alt+N key bug which would cause it stop working in some
   situations.
44.Fixed /hadd gpf when insufficient parameters were used.
45.Can now use \ to escape a literal character in $regsub() in the
   substitution expression.
46.Added /links -nx switches, opens links window minimized or
   maximized.
47.Added 'nowrap' property to custom dialog text controls.
48.Can now specify "range N N" for custom dialog scroll control.
49.Fixed /dialog bug preventing you from creating more than one
   modal custom dialog.
50.Fixed a bug in my socket random port selection routine.
51.Fixed /load -rs \path\to\script.mrc not loading the script.
52.Fixed /echo -h bug.
53.Fixed /server gpf bug with long server names.
54.If the auto-close DCC send/get options are enabled and you
   manually click the cancel button in DCC send/get windows, they
   are no longer auto-closed.
55.Fixed $snicks error message, and it no longer halts a script
   if used on a non-channel window.
56./renwin now allows you to change the window name even if it's the
   same name but different case.
57.Away messages for a nick are now displayed in their associated
   query window if it is the currently active window.
58.mIRC will no longer rejoin an open channel window if you disconnect
   and then connect to a different network.
59.Added /pvoice command, works the same as /pop but for +v modes.
60.Fixed nick color list bug, was coloring nicknames incorrectly if
   your ignore/op/voice/etc. lists where not enabled.
61.Hotlink now works for all channel names in channel windows.
62.Fixed bug with /play -e option processing | separator in text.
63.Added internal support for +d channel mode for hybrid6 servers.
64.Fixed $cnick().method bug.
65.Added $awaymsg and $awaytime to return away status when used
   with $away identifier.
66.Added /window -B switch to prevent custom @window editbox from
   using a border.
67.Fixed $nick().color not working correctly when used with the
   'aohvr' mode parameters.
68.$readn is now correctly reset on a failed $read.
69.Fixed $remove() not working if a $null substring was specified.
70.mIRC no longer includes the >N parameter in a /LIST if N is zero.
   This allows it to list registered channels with no users.
71./channel request now has a time-out again.
72.Fixed /flash -rN, now repeats flash only N times.
73.The nick color list now allows you to prioritize the list, so
   mIRC no longer determines the best match by itself, it will use
   the first match it finds in the list.
74.Added support for server redirection numeric 10.
75.Fixed Position Reset menu item not working correctly if window
   MDI/desktop position changed.
76.Fixed bug with +channel windows.
77.Added /remove -b switch, deletes file and places it in the
   recycle bin.
78.Improved $rand() behavior.
79.Added /if islower/isupper comparison.
80.Added WMA/OGG support to sounds dialog, /splay and /sound
   commands, and added new identifiers.

   $sound(filename|type)
   Returns information about the specified file if a filename
   was specified, or the associated folder for a filename or
   file type, where type can be wave, midi, mp3, wma, ogg.

   When used with an mp3 files it supports the same properties
   as $mp3().

   Note: this replaces $wavedir, $mididir, $mp3dir, and $mp3().
   These are still supported for now but no longer documented.

   $insong
   Returns information about the mp3, wma, or ogg file that
   is being played, same properties as $inmp3.

   Note: this replaces $inmp3, which is still supported for
   now but no longer documented.

81./alias now replaces an existing alias without changing it's
   position in the script.
82.Added Trusted Users list to DCC Auto-get options dialog.
83.Changed behavior of #channel name tab completion to include
   currently open channels.
84.Custom dialog size now takes account of menubar height.
85.Added $timestampfmt to return options dialog timestamp format.
86.Fixed Shift+Control+V pasting text twice.
87.Fixed /renwin not allowing custom menus to work with new window
   name.
88.All internal joins and names now use the /join and /names commands
   to allow scripts to override the default behavior.
89.Added $send()/$get() .resume property returns resume position.
90.Added "fast screen update" back to options/display dialog.
91.Fixed /links gpf bug with long server addresses.
92.Added minimize button to DCC chat accept dialog which also has
   default focus.
93.Log files now include a "Session ident" at the start of the log,
   with the name of the window being logged.
94.Fixed /channel behavior when used on an open channel window from
   which you were kicked.
95.Fixed window positioning bug when Windows Taskbar wsa on the left
   side of the desktop.
96.Incoming DCC get files are now flushed to disk every 500k.
97.Fixed remote script popup menus not being merged properly.
98.Added case-sensitive option to Highlight dialog items.
99.Added Message Window double-click item to Mouse dialog.
100.Added $color().dd property, returns double digit format.
101.Fixed fserve cd/get bug.
102.Fixed $base() not handling fractions properly.
103.Fixed "Save As" bug in script editor dialog when over-writing an
    existing file.
104.Firewall can now be enabled separately for server and DCC
    connections.
105.Added signalling commands and events which allow you to trigger
    signal events in scripts:

    /signal -n <name> [parameters]

    By default the signal is triggered after all current scripts
    have finished executing. You can use -n to make the script
    trigger immediately.

    on *:signal:name:echo Received signal: $signal Parameters: $1-

    The name can contain wildcards.

    The script that called /signal is triggered first, and then
    all other scripts are triggered.

106.Fixed DCC send/get/chat beeping on completion when you had your
    Sounds disabled in the Options/Sounds dialog.
107.mIRC now strips out tab characters from filenames.
108.$input() now allows $null for all parameters except prompt.
109.Fixed DCC chat "ignore all" option bug.
110.Fixed bug where on DNS event triggered for DNS requests not made
    by the /dns command.
111.Added $dns(N) identifier, used in the on DNS event to list the
    address that was resolved and any associated IP addresses.

    Properties: nick, addr, ip. $dns(N) without a property returns the
    address being resolved. You can use N = 0 to return number of IP
    addresses found.

    Note: the old identifiers $iaddress, $naddress, and $raddress are
    still supported but are no longer listed in the help file.

112.Added $ignore().secs property, returns number of seconds until
    ignore is removed if /ignore -uN was used.
113.Can now use $null as third parameter in $dll() identifier.
114.Added /echo -g switch, prevents line from being logged to logfile,
    and /echo -r switch which applies the strip settings in the Options,
    Messages dialog.
115.Fixed script menus not working when first line of menu definition
    was empty.
116.Fixed mIRC not handling multiple numeric 005's correctly.
117.Custom dialog "limit N" option now works in combo editbox.
118.Added /hadd -z switch, decreases hash item once per second until
    it reaches zero and then unsets it. Also added commands:

    /hinc -smbczuN <name> <item> [data | &binvar]
    /hdec -smbczuN <name> <item> [data | &binvar]

    Switches are the same as /hadd, except for -c which increases or
    decreases the value once per second.

    Also added $hget().unset property, returns time remaining before
    item is unset.

118.Fixed DCC send/get windows sometimes not showing 100% completion
    after a transfer has completed.
119.Changed highlight dialog item "Flash N times" to apply to both
    the number of times mIRC flashes and plays the flash sound.
120.DCC chats now display the time the connection was initiated in
    the DCC Chat Session line.
121.Changed the way /set -u0 works slightly.
122.Fixed $eval() not handling values containing commas properly.
123.When running under XP, mIRC now uses the XP theme for dialogs,
    buttons, etc.
124.Can now change nicknames in options dialog while connected.
125.Added $stripped identifier, returns number of BURK codes that
    were stripped from an incoming message, if any.
126.Extended /socklist [-tul] [name], allows you to list open tcp,
    udp, or listening sockets, as well as sockets matching the
    specified wildcard name.
127.While loops now works properly even if {} enclosing brackets
    aren't used.
128.Fixed /queryrn, was allowing you to change the name of any
    window not just query windows.
129.The retry options in the connect/options dialog now have their
    own dialog.
130.The /clearall command no longer clears custom @windows, only
    status, channel, and query windows.
131.Fixed display of $+ string too long error message.
132.The /alias command can now handle LFNs in quotes.
133.Added $cmdline identifier, returns command line passed to mIRC
    when it is first run.
134.Auto-join on invite now uses channel's password from channels
    folder if it is listed in the folder.
135.The "Logging to" message now shows the full logfile name.
136.Fixed $chan().ial issue, I've added a separate $chan().inwho
    property. $chan.ial will still return $inwho for now but will
    not do so in future versions of mIRC.
137./filter now allows you to use -l to read from a channel nickname
    listbox.
138.Fixed $timer().reps returning negative value in some situations.
139.Fixed $read and $readini bug.
140./cnick * N now sets the Any mode/No mode switches if no mode
    is specified, and *!*@* now matches any nickname.
141.Fixed bug with full exception list not being displayed in
    channel central dialog.
142.Popup menus now allow menu headers without a sub-menu.
143.The control dialog lists, ie. ignore, voice, protect, op, are
    now stored in a control.ini file, separate from mirc.ini.
144.Fixed servers.ini processing bug, mIRC was unable to read server
    entries which didn't specify a port number.
145.Fixed $dll() not correctly handling partial paths in filenames.
146.Fixed $result not being reset to an empty value when /return $null
    is used.
147.Added logging dialog "make folder" option to network option.
148.Added retry delay option to Retry connect dialog.
149.It is no longer possible to enter editbox commands that begin
    with an $identifier or %variable.
150.Added $submenu($id($1)) identifier, can only be used in popup
    menu definitions. It calls $id($1) with $1 = 1, increasing $1
    with each call, and adding whatever is return by $id() to the
    popup menu. The returned value must be a one line definition
    format for a popup menu. The iteration ends when $id() returns
    no value.

    test {
      if ($1 == begin) return -
      if ($1 == 1) return Moo:echo Moo
      if ($1 == 2) return Cow:echo Cow
      if ($1 == end) return -
    }

    The "begin" and "end" values are sent to check if the item
    should be enclosed in separators.

151.Added "Group by Network" option to Window menu.
152.Added "Save Links" option to Links window popup window.
153./server address now looks for a match for address in servers
    list and uses that info for the network, group, etc.
154.$islower()/$isupper() now ignore numbers.
155.Comments in popup menus are now handled correctly.
156.Fixed /showmirc -t and window restore via tray bug.
157.$read() should now correctly handle matchtext with quotes,
    also fixed a bug in $read() handling of -s switch.
158.Extended socket commands to allow binding to an ip address:

    /socklisten -d [ipaddress] etc.
    /sockopen -d [ipaddress] etc.
    /sockudp -d [ipaddress] etc.

    Also added $sock().bindip and .bindport properties, and
    /socklist now shows the bind address and ip.

159.Can now use /halt in the on KEYDOWN event to prevent mIRC
    from applying it's own TAB key completion.
160.Added "Queue own messages" option to flood dialog, applies
    only to your PRIVMSG and NOTICE messages.

    Also added "Show status updates", displays flood queue
    status 1) when there is a new item in the queue, 2) every
    10 seconds, if the queue status changed, and 3) when the
    queue becomes empty.

161.Added [type] parameter to /protect command.
162.Added kludge to handle multiple meanings for numeric 477 on
    DALnet servers.
163.mIRC now processes only the first 700 bytes of an incoming
    server message, and ignores the remainder up to the next LF
    character.
164.Editor dialog now also displays horizontal cursor position.
165.Fixed find text dialog not saving trailing spaces in search
    words.
166.Fixed /drawtext width measurement bug.
167.Fixed bitmap file loading bug.
168.Imroved $wrap(), no longer needs to re-calculate if you use
    the same parameters as the previous call.
169.Added support for DALnet services numerics 650 and 651.
170.Improved file/dir existence checking routines.
171.mIRC now prevents a chat/query window from being closed if it
    receives a message just as you click the close button. You need
    to click the close button twice within a few seconds of the last
    message to close the window.
172.Fixed $sfile() $sdir() not handling incomplete paths properly.
173.Fixed /splay -c bug.
174.Fixed /window not handling LFNs for icon filename.
175.Changed $sfile() behavior, it will now only list files of
    the type you've specified, if it finds a match for that file
    type in the "file types" listbox in the file dialog.
176.Added Multi-Server support. mIRC now allows you to connect to
    multiple servers at the same time.

    This feature required major internal changes to mIRC code and
    forced improvement of code in many areas which has hopefully
    resulted in a more stable/robust mIRC.

    Added "New server window" checkbox to connect dialog. To open
    a new server window without connecting to a server, you can
    check the "New Server Window" checkbox and press the OK button.

    Added "New Server Window" menu item to options toolbar button
    servers popup menu. You can also open a new server window by
    holding down the Shift key when you select a server from the
    popup menu.

    Added multi-server dialog to connect/options dialog.

    New commands and identifiers:

      $cid - returns server connection id for current script
      $wid - returns window id for current script

      $status - returns server connection status. Also returns
                "closing" during the on disconnect event if the
                status window being closed is the cause of the
                disconnection.

      $activecid, and $lactivecid.

      $scid(N)[.command], where N is a $cid value
      $scon(N)[.command], where N is the Nth connection

      If N = 0, returns total number of open status windows.

      You can also specify a property which is a command name
      and it will be called using that server connection.

      /scid <-rsatM | N> [command], where N is a $cid value
      /scon <-rsatM | N> [command], where N is the Nth connection

      If you specify a command, the connection id is set only for
      that command. The -r switch resets the connection id to the
      original id for that script.

      The -a and -tM switches can only be used if you specify a
      command.

         -a - perform the command on all connection ids.

        -tM - where M is an or'd value of 1 = server connected,
              2 = not connected, 4 = connecting, 8 = not connecting.
              The command is only performed if N matches the connect
              status of the connection id.

      Note: if you use a command that contains $identifiers, and
      you want the identifiers to be evaluated in the target
      connection, you must pass them as $!identifier to prevent
      them from being evaluated first in the current connection.

    Also added new properties to $window():

      .type - returns window type name

    And to $query(), $window(), $chat(), $send(), $get(), $chan(),
    and $timer():

      .cid  - server connection id
      .wid  - window id
      .hwnd - window handle

    Added /server -mn switches, where -m creates a new server window
    and connects, -n creates new server window without connecting.

    Misc. notes:

    Windows whose server connection has been closed are placed
    at the end of the switchbar list. This includes things like
    DCC send/get/chat, and custom windows.

    Everything in mIRC now has a unique id number, all windows,
    server connections, DCC sends/get/chats, etc.

    The tray icon displays the animation for the current active
    server connection, same goes for the Connect toolbar button,
    and File menu.

    Each server connection has it's own /play list, and the play
    dialog shows the play list for the current active connection.

    Urls list "Send To" menu, and Tray popup menu, show the network
    and nickname for each status window.

177.Added /timer -i switch, makes a timer auto-associate with the
    currently active server connection.

    The -i switch keeps the /timer alive across server windows,
    if a server window is closed, the /timer just picks a new one
    automatically.

    /timer now shows the associated network name for a timer.

    You can use $timer().anysc to check if it has the -i switch
    enabled.

178.on PLAYEND is now triggered at the end of each played file.
179.Extended /ignore, /protect, etc. handling.

    Changed display format in Control dialog listbox.

    /ignore, /protect, /aop, and /avoice now all by default
    include a network name, unless you use the -w switch.

    /ignore -l now displays the unignore time.

    /ignore -l, when you're not connected to a server, lists all
    ignores. When connected, it lists all ignores that apply to
    that connection.

    Added .network property to $ignore()/$protect/$aop()/$avoice().

    Also note that isaop, isavoice, isignore, and isprotect all
    apply to the current connection.

180.Added /window switches:

    When a @window is created, it is automatically associated
    with the current connection. If that connection is closed,
    the @window is associated with the next available connection.

    You can change this behavior with /window -ivz:

    -i - makes a @window dynamically associate with the currently
         active connection. You can use $window().anysc to check
         if this setting is active.

    -v - closes window when associated status window is closed
         The on close event is triggered for the window.

         If this switch isn't used and the status window is
         closed, the @window is moved to the end of the switchbar,
         and is associated with the first available status window.

    -z - places window button at end of switchbar

181.The . prefix now makes /debug quiet. Extended /debug to allow
    output to a custom @window or filename.

    /debug [-cnpt] [N] [on | off | @window | filename]

    /debug -c off    closes associated @window
    /debug -n @moo   opens @window minimized
    /debug -pt       wrap or timestamp text
    /debug N @moo    use color N for text

    $debug returns name of debug file or @window.

    /debug now works independently for each server connection,
    indents lines if not wrapped, and prefixes each line with
    the server address, and <- and ->.

    /debug @window now also works with listbox @windows.

182.Active switchbar button now uses bold text and shaded background.
183.Using new path-splitting routines which affect eg. $nopath().
184.Auto-tile/cascade/arrange are no longer triggered when you close
    a desktop window.
185.Fixed switchbar/toolbar display glitch when mIRC window is sized
    to a very small height.
186.Fixed $findfile() bug when handling wildcards with numbers.
187.$chan is now filled for the on ctcpreply event if it was a channel
    ctcp message.
188.Ctcp messages that use an invalid format are now treated as plain
    text, and will trigger script events.
189.Added "Control+Tab uses switchbar order" to General dialog.

15/06/2001 - mIRC v5.91

Changes:
1.Fixed $eval() bug.
2.Link control in custom dialogs triggers sclick event again.
3.Fixed $var() bug.
4.Fixed /channel display info bug.
5.Standardized on the word 'color' in identifiers and commands, and
  in the help file.
6.For Undernet servers CHANTYPES is now set to #&+ by default.
7.Fixed install program always creating desktop shortcut icon.
8.Fixed mIRC taskbar icon being redisplayed in some situations after
  you've minimized mIRC to the tray.
9.Fixed function keys not working in non-joined channel window if
  "keep open" switch is turned on.
10.Fixed tab completion not working with $? and $input properly.
11.Fixed /userhost not updating IAL.
12.Added ctcp and whois protection options, and queue op commands
   option, to Flood dialog.
13.Fixed window icon highlighting when switchbar is turned off.
14.Added support for numeric 005 NETWORK=name token (not supported
   by any servers at this time) which tells the IRC client the name
   of the IRC network it's connected to, eg. NETWORK=DALnet.
15.Fixed status window log filename not being updated when a new day
   begins and you have when the "log by day" option enabled.
16./font can now handle quotes around font name.
17.Fixed script editor dialog 64k limit bug.
18.Fixed Info section not working in address book if you typed in
   a nick and pressed the ctcp ping, etc. buttons.
19.Fixed the way /dialog and $dialog() windows are centered around
   other windows.
20.Fixed numeric 433 triggering script twice if nickname in use.
21.Fixed dir -b not displaying bytes in fileserver.
22.Added "Method" and "Notify list" options to Nick color list Add
   dialog.
23.mIRC now supports servers that send a /names list which contains
   a full nick!id@host format in the reply, enables mIRC to fill the
   IAL on joining a channel (no servers do this yet, so this hasn't
   been tested).
24.Fixed fserve max cps feature not being turned off if set to zero.
25.Fixed $rand() behavior.
26.Can now /filter blank lines by specifying $crlf for matchtext.
27.Added "Use query for notify nicks" option to IRC dialog.
28.Fixed switchbar right-click popup menu bug.
29.Fixed $readini() not handling filename enclosed in quotes.
30.When you have the "keep channel open" option enabled, mIRC now
   clears the nicklist if a channel window is open but not joined.
31.The listbox in the Control dialog is no longer sorted.
32.Fixed $regsub() not returning original text if there were no
   substitutions, and not handling backreferenced values correctly
   when global modifier is used.
33./tokenize now correctly resets all $N to $null if no parameters
   are specified.
34.Can now use $style() in custom dialog menu definitions.
35.Added Up/down buttons to Control dialog to allow re-arranging
   of listbox entries.
36.Fixed Control+H scroll bug.
37.Improved the way $null is handled in scripts.
38.mIRC now reroutes text to the status window if it can't display
   text in the current window, eg. a picture @window.
39.Added $window().ontop property.
40.Fixed Line marker bug when text buffer reached maximum buffer
   size in Options/General dialog.
41.Fixed font size bugs, relating to positive/negative font sizes,
   in /font, $width(), $height, $wrap(), /drawtext, /window, etc.
42.Fixed $readini() bug when used without the -n switch.
43.Added "Blink icons" option to Display dialog, blinks switchbar
   icons for channel/query windows if there's a message/highlight
   event, or a flash event.
44.Fixed !$identifier not prefix bug.
45.Fixed editbox bug in 16bit mIRC under win3.x.
46.Added /drawrect [-d] x y w h [w h], draws rounded rectangle,
   must specify width and height of ellipse used to draw corners.
47.Notify no longer triggers on a nick change if nick has only
   changed case.
48.Added "monitor file changes" option to Editor dialog.
49.$count() can now handle multiple substrings.
50.Added $+(n1,...,nN) identifier, combines parameters.
51.Added /hadd -uN, unsets item after N seconds, and /hsave -u, by
   default /hsave excludes items that are in the unset list, -u
   forces it to include the unset items.
52.Dcc Chat/Get windows are now re-used if they are inactive and the
   same person tries to chat with you again, or tries to re-send the
   same file.
53.Added back notify options to show address and time.
54.Extended Hash commands to allow storage of binary variables:

   /hadd -smbc <name> <item> [data | &binvar]

   The -b switch indicates that you're adding a &binvar item to the
   hash table, the -c switch chops the &binvar up to the first null
   and treats it as plain text.

   $hget(name/N,item, [&binvar])

   Assigns the result of a $hget() lookup to a &binvar.

   All other Hash commands handle binary variables as well, eg.
   /hload, /hsave, etc.

55.Fixed alias/script recursion gpf bug.
56.Added multibyte characters option to options/messages dialog.
57.Can now use /did -z name id [min max] to reset a scrollbar range in
   a custom dialog.
58.Added -i indent switch to /aline, /iline, and /loadbuf.
59.Fixed minimized icon and editbox bugs in 16bit mIRC.
60.Fixed /whois on query option not working in single message window.
61.Token identifiers can now be made case-sensitive by adding "cs" to
   the identifier name, eg. $addtokcs().
62./filter -g switch now treats wildcard text as a regex expression.
63.Added /aline and /iline -n switch, doesn't add line if it already
   exists in window.
64.Added two new variable types to $com(), dispatch and unknown.

   These allow you to pass dispatch/unknown pointers as parameters
   in a $com() call, or to retrieve dispatch/unknown pointers from
   a $com() call, by reference.

   To pass a dispatch/unknown pointer as a parameter in $com(),
   specify the variable type as dispatch/unknown, and specify the
   name of an existing $com() connection as the value.

   To retrieve a dispatch/unknown pointer through a call to $com(),
   specify the variable type as dispatch/unknown with *, and assign
   it a variable name. When $com() returns, mIRC will create a new
   $com() item with that variable name and assign it the dispatch
   or unknown pointer.

   In the case of retrieving an unknown pointer, mIRC will extend
   it to a dispatch pointer if it can, allowing you to call it
   directly via $com().

   You can use $com().dispatch or $com().unknown to see if a pointer
   exists for that $com() item.

65.mIRC now treats mode format +k * as a hidden key on all servers,
   for servers that hide the key from non-ops.
66.Fixed /dcc send -l max cps bug.
67.Added "mp3 playing" to confirm section in IRC options dialog.
68.Added on *:unload:/command event, triggers only in the script that
   is being unloaded. Also triggers if unloading via the Unload menu
   in the Editor dialog.

   You can use /unload -n to unload a script without triggering the
   on unload event.

69.Added history listbox to Control+F find dialog.
70.Added /timer -pr switches, pause and resume a timer.
71.mIRC now waits 30 seconds before a re-connect attempt if the server
   says that you were throttled for connecting too fast. mIRC looks for
   the word "throttled" in the ERROR Closing Link server message.
72.Fixed /ignore -uN not resetting nick color list colors when ignore
   removed after N seconds.
73.Fixed ignore button in DCC send/chat dialogs not working.
74.Fixed Flood protection ignore feature not working for DCCs.
75.Pressing the enter key in the Channels folder now joins a channel
   when you have an item selected in the listbox.
76.Fixed $abook() gpf bug.
77.Undo no longer works in a disabled editbox in a custom dialog.
78.Fixed drop event not working properly in custom dialogs.
79.Binary variables can now be 8192 bytes in length.
80.Added /filter -a switch, allows you to specify a sort alias which is
   called to sort the filtered lines.
81.Added /cline -m switch, makes mIRC color a nick in channel messages
   with the /cline color.

26/04/2001 - mIRC v5.9

Changes:
1.Fixed wheel mouse bug when set to scroll by page instead of by line.
2.Fixed line marker not being reset in some situations when mIRC
  isn't the active window.
3.Fixed line marker text indent bug in following line.
4.Log view dialog can now display large numbers of log files far
  more quickly.
5.The mIRC tray icon now displays the letter A for Active to
  indicate the active mIRC window, if you are running more than
  one mIRC at a time.
6.Fixed DCC Send/Get cps calculation display.
7.Fixed function key focus bug while in channel windows.
8.Added /echo -m switch, indicates that the line should be
  processed as a user message instead of an event.
9.Fixed line marker being lost if lines in a window exceeded max
  line buffer size.
10.Agent support no longer strips out high-ascii characters used
   in non-english languages.
11.Fixed tray icon refresh bug.
12.Fixed custom dialog display bug, controls weren't being re-
   displayed properly in some situations.
13.Added Hide channel key option to IRC dialog.
14.Fixed /play -e not working with custom windows.
15.$duration(seconds,N) now accepts its own output and changes
   it back into seconds, and if N == 2 returns format without
   seconds.
16.Fixed line marker bug, was being set inbetween lines in some
   situations.
17.Log view dialog now maintains cursor position in listbox after
   you delete or merge files.
18.Added on 1:APPACTIVE:echo $appactive event, triggers when the
   mIRC active application state changes. $appactive is $true if
   any mIRC window is active.

   Also added on 1:ACTIVE:@#?=!*:echo $active $lactive event,
   triggers when a window in mIRC is activated. $lactive returns
   the previously active window. If the previous window is no
   longer open, $lactive returns $null.

19.Added on 1:AGENT:echo $agentname finished speaking! event.
20.Added new DDE Topic, EVALUATE, makes mIRC evaluate identifiers
   or variables in a line of text.
21.Added 'auto-minimize on join' option to channels folder edit
   dialog.
22.Control section in Options dialog has been moved to the Address
   Book dialog, and has been improved.
23.Added /ignore -d switch, ignores DCCs such as Sends/Chat/etc.,
   /ignore -t ctcp no longer ignores DCCs.
24.Added auto-voice list to Control dialog.

   Changed /auto command to /aop, isauto to isaop, $auto to $aop,
   the old formats are still supported for now.

   Added /avoice command, isavoice if comparison, and $avoice.

   Added identifiers $aop(address/N), $avoice(address/N), and
   $protect(address/N), all with .type property.

25.Channels which are auto-joined on an invite are now minimized
   on join.
26.Added Options section to IRC dialog with default flash settings
   for channel/query windows, and mIRC exit confirmation options.
27.Extended /flash to /flash [-wbrN] [window] <text> which allows
   you to flash the desktop icon of any open mIRC window including
   custom windows.
28.Can now specify a titlebar icon for a custom dialog using
   icon filename, index
29.Scrollbars can now handle up to 64000 lines in a window.
30.Fixed $timer().secs bug.
31.Changed max cps method in fileserver, now represents total max
   cps for all DCC sends combined. This also limits DCC sends
   initiated with /dcc send -l. If you use /dcc send -l0 this
   prevents a script-initiated DCC send from being limited.
32./ignore /aop /avoice /protect now allow you to properly remove
   #channels one by one with -r.
33.Added agent dialog speech option to avoid repeating channel
   name in channel messages/actions.
34.Can now use SendMessage() to communicate with 32bit mIRC:

   SendMessage(mHwnd, WM_MCOMMAND, cMethod, 0L)

   mHwnd         mIRC window, or Channel/Query/etc. window
   WM_MCOMMAND   WM_USER + 200
   cMethod       1 - As if typed in editbox
                 2 - As if typed in editbox, send as plain text
                 4 - Use flood protection if turned on
                     Can be or'd with 1 or 2
   Returns       0 if fails, 1 if successful

   SendMessage(mHwnd, WM_MEVALUATE, 0, 0L)

   mHwnd         mIRC window, or Channel/Query/etc. window
   WM_MEVALUATE  WM_USER + 201
   Returns       0 if fails, 1 if successful

   The application that sends these messages should create a
   mapped file named "mIRC" with CreateFileMapping(). When mIRC
   receives the above messages, it will open this file and use
   the data it contains to perform the command or evaluation.

   In the case of an evaluation, mIRC will output the results
   to the mapped file.

   The mapped file must be at least 1024 bytes in length.

35.Added Position Default Save/Forget menu items to system menu
   for Channel and Query/Chat windows.
36.Auto-tile/cascade no longer trigger if a window is opened in
   a minimized state.
37.mIRC now supports the numeric 005 tokens: CHANTYPES=# and
   PREFIX=(ohv)@%+ and can handle a dynamic set of channel and
   nick prefixes.

   mIRC assumes that @ is supported on all networks, any mode
   left of @ is assumed to have at least equal power to @, and
   any mode right of @ has less power.

   mIRC has internal support for @%+ modes.

   $nick() can now handle all mode letters listed in PREFIX.

   Also added support for CHANMODES=A,B,C,D token (not currently
   supported by any servers), which lists all modes supported
   by a channel, where:

     A = modes that take a parameter, and add or remove nicks
         or addresses to a list, such as +bIe for the ban,
         invite, and exception lists.

     B = modes that change channel settings, but which take
         a parameter when they are set and unset, such as
         +k key, and -k key.

     C = modes that change channel settings, but which take
         a parameter only when they are set, such as +l N,
         and -l.

     D = modes that change channel settings, such as +imnpst
         and take no parameters.

   All unknown/unlisted modes are treated as type D.

   When not connected to a server, mIRC uses default values
   of CHANTYPES=#& PREFIX=(ohv)@%+ CHANMODES=bIe,k,l

   Also added identifiers $chantypes $prefix $chanmodes.

   Notes:

   1. mIRC doesn't support @ or $ as a channel prefix, or $ as
      a nickname prefix, these are used internally by mIRC.

   2. Ircd coders should be aware that prefixes can change
      the way an IRC client behaves.

      eg. If a server uses the same prefixes for channels and
      nicknames, this could cause certain features in mIRC
      to behave oddly, eg. scripts, hotlinks, tab completion,
      etc. which, depending on the prefix, provide a different
      behavior or interface in non-context situations.

38.Added support for the numeric 005 token: MODES=N where N is
   the number of items allowed per /mode change. Added $modespl
   identifier.
39.Fixed server port not being randomly selected on each new
   connection.
40.Fixed treelist in options dialog not scrolling to selected
   item in some situations when options dialog is opened.
41.Fixed local info server lookup bug, was failing if the irc
   server returned an ip address in a /userhost reply.
42.Added $var(%var,N) returns Nth matching variable name. You can
   use a wildcard for the variable name. If N is zero, returns
   total number of matching variable names. This searches both
   local and global variables. $var().value returns the value of
   the variable, $var().local returns $true/$false.
43.Added $rgb() 3dlight value.
44.Added support for numeric 005 WALLCHOPS token, mIRC will use
   /NOTICE @<channel> :<text> if this token is set, instead of
   using multiple targets.
45.DCC Get no longer offers resume option if incoming filesize
   is smaller than existing file.
46.$window().state and .icon return values for -2 now.
47.Fixed handling of /msg +#channel messages.
48.Changed behavior of Notify dialog, no longer changes Add
   button to Update. When you edit an item it is automatically
   updated.
49.Fixed bug in DNS routine, might have caused a gpf in some
   cases where the address didn't resolve.
50.Added 'Show All' menu item to notify window popup menu.
51.Added 'Grayed text' item to Colours dialog, used to gray nicks
   in notify list.
52.The protect list in control dialog can now protect a full
   nick!user@host address by using the IAL. The address can use
   wildcards.
53.Added 'Position' menu to System menu of all windows.
54.Can now set a @window icon with /window @ iconfile [N].
55.Script editor editbox can now handle 64k of text in 32bit mIRC.
56.Added $uptime(mirc | server | system, N) returns uptime in
   milli-seconds for specified item. N is optional, if N = 1 it
   returns the same format as $duration(), if N = 2 returns same
   format but without seconds, and N = 3 returns seconds instead
   of milli-seconds.
57.Added $regex([name], text, re) to parse regular expressions.
   Returns N number of strings matched.

   The list of strings for a match are referenced through
   $regbr([name], N), N = 0 returns total number of strings.

   $regbr([name], N).pos returns a strings position in text.

   $regbr() remembers the results for up to 10 names. Each time
   you do a match with $regex(), and you specify a name, that
   name's previous results are overwritten with the new results.

   $regsub([name], text, re, subtext, %var) same as $regex() but
   performs a substitution, returns N number of substitutions
   performed, and assigns result to variable %var.

   If you don't specify a name, all identifiers use a default
   name which is overwritten with each call.

   Note: mIRC uses the PCRE library (www.pcre.org)

58.Fixed bug in $ctime() wasn't handling certain date formats.
59.Added support for ! not prefix in if statements for use with
   $identifiers and %variables, eg. if (!%moo) echo no cows
60.Added nick colors section to address book, allows you to assign
   colors to a nick/address which is used to color the nick in
   messages and in the channel nick list.

   The /cnick command allows you to add or remove items from
   the colour list:

     /cnick -raniovp [nick[!user@host]] [color] [modes] [levels]

   You can use /cnick -r nick/N to remove first item that matches
   nick in the nick color list or the Nth item in the nick color
   list.

   To add or refer to an item as Any nick you can use the * char
   as the nick, * char as the mode for any mode.

   Also added $cnick(N/nick, [M]), if N returns Nth item in list,
   with properties: color, modes, levels, anymode, nomode

   If you specify a nick, returns Nth position of item in list that
   matches nick. If nick doesn't match any items, returns zero.

   To get a nick's color, you can use $cnick(nick/N).color. If nick
   doesn't match any items in the list, returns 'Normal Text' color,
   or if M = 1, returns 'Listbox text" colour.

   You can specify %vars or $identifiers as the nick.

   Note: /cline overrides color settings in the nick color list.
   You can use /cline -r to reset a nick to default color to make
   the nick color list apply to a nick.

61.Fixed bug in Tray popup menu handling.
62.Fixed DCC Send cps limit not working in fileserver.
63.Added /window -C switch, centers @window on creation.
64.Replaced old $dde $read and $readini identifiers with:

   $dde(topic, name, item, [N])
   $read(filename, [ntsw], [matchtext], [N])
   $readini(filename, [n], section, item)

   The old identifiers are still supported for now but no longer
   documented.

65.Added built-in ctcp flood protection for ctcp version, ping,
   finger, and time:

     5 second ignore all users for that type of ctcp
     10 second ignore that user for that type of ctcp

66.Added transparency support for desktop windows under win2k,
   options/display dialog.
67.Can now use $line() $fline() (with T = 1) and $sline() to read
   the channel nicklist.
68.Added /run -p switch, sets working path to path of the application
   being run.
69.Added support for http proxy 'basic' authorization which uses
   base64 userid/password encoding.
70.Extended $os to detect XP.
71.Popup menus should now set $1 to nick for query/chat windows.
72.Fixed !nick sound requests getting through /ignore -p.
73.Fixed text wrapping bug in highlight feature when using custom
   identifiers as highlight items.
74.Tab key completion now works on items separated by commas.
75./hadd -s and /hdel -s now show item name. Also added /hadd -m
   switch, which creates the hash table if it doesn't exist.
76.IAL is now permanently switched on.
77.Moved "Highlight nicks in messages" option to new nick color
   list dialog.
78.Added "Keep channels open" option to IRC/Options dialog, keeps
   channel windows open after you're kicked. $chan().status now
   returns "kicked" in this situation.
79.Added $hregex(name/N, retext, N), searches table for the Nth
   item which matches regular expression. Returns item name. You
   can use .data property if you want to match on the data of an
   item.
80.Can now /halt numeric 433 on connect to prevent mIRC entering
   /nick in editbox if nick and altnick are in use.
81.Redesigned DCC send/get windows interface, added 'open' and
   'open folder' buttons to DCC get dialog, and 'resend' button
   to DCC send dialog.

   Added $send() and $get .done property, returns $true if the
   transfer was successful, $false otherwise.

82.Added scrollbar control support to custom dialogs:

   scroll "text", id, x y w h, style (top left bottom right
   horizontal range N)

   on 1:dialog:name:scroll:id:etc.

   The /did -c switch can be used to set the scroll position,
   you can use $did().sel to find current position.

83.Added /ialmark <nick> [text] command, marks IAL entry for nick
   with the specified text. You can use $ial().mark to retrieve
   the mark.

   Changed /clearial to /ialclear, the old command is still
   supported but no longer documented.

   Can now use /ialclear [nick] to clear the entry for a specific
   nickname. /ialclear without a nickname clears the whole IAL.

84.Fixed $iif() gpf bug.
85.Added /savebuf -o [dialog id] which saves text in a custom
   dialog control to a file.
86.Fixed /hload -b bug when loading items with empty data.
87.Added switchbar multi-line and width option to display dialog.
88.Fixed right-click popup menu bug during mark/copy text.
89.Fixed dialog -s dbu resizing bug.
90.Fixed /window -b not working correctly with tabstops in custom
   window listboxes.
91.Fixed hotlink right-click popup menu not working on nicknames
   in some situations.
92.Can now check/gray menu items in popup menus by using $style(N)
   as the first word in the menu definition, where N can be 1 for
   checked, 2 for grayed, or 3 for both.

   $iif($server == $null,$style(3)) Server:
   .Motd:/motd
   .Time:/time

93.Added $input(prompt,N,title,text) identifier, prompts the user
   for input.

   prompt is the prompt text message.

   N can be a combination of values added together:

     1  - show input editbox
     2  - show input password editbox
     4  - ok button
     8  - yesno buttons
     16 - yesnocancel buttons
     32 - return $ok, $yes, $no, $cancel for buttons.

     By default, buttons return $true or $null, same as $?,
     If there is an input editbox, the ok/yes buttons always
     return the contents of the editbox.

     64, 128, 256, and 512 show the info, question, warning,
     and hand icons respectively.

   title is the titlebar text.

   text is the default text placed in the input editbox.

   N and text are optional parameters.

   Note: $input() replaces $?. $? is still supported but no
   longer documented.

94.Fixed fileserver file-sorting bug.
95.Added $eval(text,N) identifier, repeatedly evaluates text N
   times. If N isn't specified, the default is N = 1. If N is zero,
   text is not evaluated.
96.Added /drawreplace -nr @ <color1> <color2> [x y w h], replaces
   color1 with color2 in the specified picture window.
97.Added /splay -cwmp switch, clears splay queue without stopping
   currently playing sound.
98.Can now use /channel [#channel] to open channel central for a
   specific channel, if the channel window is currently open.
99.mIRC now allows you to call COM objects via scripts. You must
   have experience with COM objects in order to use this feature.

   /comopen name progid

   This opens a COM connection to object progid eg. Excel.Application,
   and assigns the connection a name.

   /comclose name

   This closes the specified COM connection.

   /comreg -u filename

   This registers/unregisters a COM DLL with windows.

   $comerr

   This should be checked after a call to any COM command or
   identifier. Returns 1 if there was an error, 0 otherwise.

   $com(name,member,method,type1,value1,...,typeN,valueN)

   This calls a member of an open COM connection with the specified
   method and parameters.

     name   - connection name.

     member - member name.

     method - Combination of the following values added together:
              1 = DISPATCH_METHOD
              2 = DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET
              4 = DISPATCH_PROPERTYPUT
              8 = DISPATCH_PROPERTYPUTREF

     type   - the variable type, can be: i1, i2, i4, ui1, ui2, ui4,
              int, uint, r4, r8, cy, date, decimal, bool, bstr,
              variant, error.

              VB equivalents are: boolean, byte, currency, date,
              double, integer, long, single, string, variant.

              To make a variable by reference, use * in the type
              name, eg. i1*

              To assign a name to a variable for later reference
              after a call, append it to the type, eg. i1* varname

              When using a variant you must also specify the variable
              type after it, eg. variant bool.

     value  - the value assigned to the variable type.

     Returns: 1 = ok, 0 = fail.

   After you've opened a COM connection or made a call to $com() you
   can use the following forms of $com():

   $com(name/N)

     Returns: name if connection is open, or name of Nth connection.
              N = 0 returns number of open connections.

     Properties: progid, result, error, errortext, argerr

       progid - object name.

       result - the value returned by the COM object member after
                the call.

       error  - error value, if there was an error.

       errortext - error description associated with error.

       argerr - Nth argument that caused the error, if the error
                was due to an invalid variable type.

   $com(name/N,varname)

     Returns: value of the specified variable name

100.The on EXIT event now triggers after the on DISCONNECT event
    if you exit mIRC while connected.
101.Fixed windows not being positioned correctly when mIRC starts
    up minimized.
102.Fixed /did -i bug.
103.Fixed $$ prefix not working for custom identifiers.
104.Identifiers now evaluate their contents without needing []
    brackets around each item in a parameter.
105.Can now detect mouse events in a custom dialog using on
    dialog event with an id of zero, and events mouse, sclick,
    uclick, dclick, drop, eg.

    on 1:dialog:*:mouse:0: echo 5 $dname $devent $did $mouse.x
    $mouse.y $mouse.win

106.Added $fullname and $emailaddr identifiers, to go with the
    /fullname and /emailaddr commands. The previous identifiers
    and commands for these are still supported.
107.Changed the way /run works, should now work the same way as
    the Run dialog via the windows Start menu.
108./window now handles quotes around the font name, and accepts
    @ or "" as an empty popup name.
109.Fixed link control in custom dialogs not being sized properly
    when using DBUs.
110.Tab nick completion now accepts *? wildcards.
111.The 'Beep on:' sounds in the Sounds dialog are now disabled
    if the "Enable Sounds" switch is unchecked.
112.Changed ishelp to ishop, and helper to halfop in help file.
113.Can now use /window -ngN switch when a @window is created
    in a minimized state.
114.Right-click popup menu in Message Window will now work even
    if no nick is active.

14/12/2000 - mIRC v5.82

Changes:
1.Fixed DCC folder ignore bug.
2.Fixed bug in /mode reply display for channel creation time.
3.Fixed tab completion not working with channel names in channels
  folder dialog.
4.Added /dcc ignore [on|off|only|except] command.
5.Fixed channel nicklist being affected by line-spacing settings.
6.Fixed DCC chat/fserve MDI/desktop setting not being saved.
7.When using function keys in a channel, the $1- identifier now
  always contains any nicks selected in the listbox.
8.Improved handling of irc: URI and .chat files.
9.Fixed flood protection bug.
10.The 32bit mIRC will no longer work under win3.11/32s.
11.Fixed SJIS/JIS conversion not working in DCC chats.
12.Fixed invalid cps display in DCC send/get when resuming a file.
13.Fixed custom dialog bug when using a background bmp, checkboxes
   weren't being displayed properly.
14.Change limit cps method in fserve dialog, should now be more
   precise, and should send packets more smoothly.
15.Added Control+L key combination, scrolls to the last line you
   read when the status/channel/chat window was last open/active.

   Added Line Marker dialog to Display/Options dialog.

   You can also use a picture for the line, rgb 255,0,255 is the
   transparency colour, same as for switchbar/toolbar pictures.

   Custom windows can use line marker feature if they are created
   with /window -m switch.

16.Fixed channel central bug, was trying to set topic even if you
   didn't have ops.
17.Fixed gpf bug in $mode() when used outside of a remote event.
18.Added $ctimer identifier, returns name of timer that triggered
   the current script.
19.Fixed bug which prevented opening more than one $dialog() at
   a time.
20.$lf and $cr chars are now stripped from lines written to ini
   files.
21.Changed $bvar(&binvar,N-N2) to $bvar(&binvar,N,M), where M is
   number of bytes, simplifies use. Old format still supported.
22.Fixed $iif() bug.
23.Channel windows can now be closed during a disconnect even if
   rejoin on connect is turned on.
24.Added $play(N)/$play(Nick,N) identifier, with properties: type,
   fname, topic, pos, lines, delay, status. Returns info on /play
   queue.
25.Added "Event" colour to Options/Display dialog. This colour is
   now used for all non-message events. The "Message" colour is
   used for actual messages, and the "Highlight" colour is used for
   highlighted messages.
26.Added Names button to Channels Folder.
27.Fixed bug with empty text "" in menu items in custom dialog.
28.Added $disk(drive).unc returns UNC path for network drive.
29.$mp3() now caches the info for the last referenced mp3 file.
30.Can now use styles (top left right bottom) with custom dialog
   icon definitions to align picture. Default is center.
31.Added built-in mouse wheel support for microsoft mice.
32.Fixed topic setting in events display dialog not being used.
33.Fixed $round() bug, was rounding negative numbers incorrectly.
34./ban now expands ban address if you didn't specify a full
   nick!user@host address format.
35.Fixed channel folder group entries not auto-joining.
36.Can now /join group to join a group defined in the channels
   folder.
37.Fixed bug in $ulevel.
38.When using mode prefixes with tab key nick completion on a
   channel, only users with the specified mode are shown.
39.Added $findfile().shortfn property.
40.Fixed bug in $inrect().
41.Fixed /set bug when first character of variable is a wildcard.
42.Custom dialog icon definitions now default to the path of the
   script if icon isn't found in mIRC root folder.
43.Fixed $dialog().hwnd bug.
44.Fixed $readini bug.

09/11/2000 - mIRC v5.81

Changes:
1.Fixed $did().seltext not working in some cases.
2.Can now enter control chars in channel central topic editbox.
3./splay will now accept LFNs even if they're not enclosed in quotes,
  error messages are now also wrapped.
4.Moved "internal sound" to sounds dialog, the internal sound is now
  only played for event beeps. mIRC uses the default windows sound
  for errors etc.
5.Fixed custom dialog icons not being displayed inside box controls.
6.Fixed bug in highlight feature when using identifiers as highlight
  items.
7.$inmp3.fname now returns case of original filename.
8.Fixed $send()/get() .cps if transfer took < 1 second.
9.Fixed Alt+S not working in DCC Send dialog.
10.Added /play -fN switch, plays file from line N onwards.
11./run will now keep the quotes in any parameters that you specify.
12.Added $sdir(dir,title) and $sfile(dir,title,oktext), title and
   oktext are optional.

   The $sdir, $file, $hfile, and $dir identifiers are still supported
   but are no longer documented in the help file.

13.If you select a topic from the topic history in channel central,
   it will now be set as the new topic when you press OK.
14.Fixed url double-click bug under WinME (?)
15.Fixed hour-glass bug in Editor dialog when using Ctrl+S.
16.When using a popup menu in a channel, the $1- identifier will now
   always be set to the selected nicks in the nicklist.
17.Fixed "!nick sound" sound request not working for mp3s.
18.Fixed agent bug, wasn't allowing you to turn agent on/off on a per
   channel/query window basis.
19.Fixed custom dialog tab control display bug.
20.Fixed bug in on WAVEEND/MIDIEND/MP3END if /splay was used within
   the event to restart playing.
21./splay can now handle longer filenames.
22.Fixed /splay seek not triggering on MP3END.
23./did -eb now works on icons in custom dialogs.
24.$window().state now returns "hidden" if a window is minimized and
   its icon is not visible.
25.$mp3().length now works with VBR mp3s, $mp3().variable and
   $mp3().crc also fixed.
27.Channel central no longer stores duplicate topics.
28.Fixed ctrl+copy not working in @windows.
29.Fixed internal ban list not seeing bans set by servers.
30.Fixed $ibl().by for undernet which doesn't provide an address for
   the user setting the ban.
31.Added built-in uninstaller to 32bit mIRC under 95/98/etc., adds
   item to Add/Remove in control panel, uninstalls the last mIRC that
   was run, will tell you which mIRC is being removed. Also removes
   all registry changes.
32.Fixed bugs in multimonitor support.
33.You can press the ! button in the sounds dialog a second time to
   stop a sound playing.
34.Added "pc speaker" option to sounds dialog.
35.Editbox in channel/query windows no longer limits the amount of
   text you can paste into it. It will still beep if you enter lines
   longer than 450 characters though.
36.Fixed bug in /colour not updating background picture colours.
37.Fixed $mid() bug when handling a negative index.
38./colour -r <N> now resets colour box N to default rgb value, and
   $colour(N) now returns rgb value for the Nth box.
39.Fixed flood protection feature in options/irc dialog.
40./splay seek no longer resumes an mp3 if it has been paused.
41.Added $hget().data property, works same as .item.
42.Added $hfind(name/N, text, N), searches table for the Nth item
   which matches text. Returns item name.

   $hmatch(name/N, wildtext, N) allows you to match wildcard text,
   also works if the item or data itself is wildcard text.

   Specify .data property if you want to match on the data of an
   item. Also returns item name.

43.Editor dialog now displays size of text in k's instead of bytes.
44./play now buffers a text file before playing it. /play messages
   are now also subject to flood protection (if enabled in options
   dialog).
45.Changed $round() rounding method.
46.Added /dcc ignore on/off command.
47.The . command prefix now overrides -s for hash commands.
48.Improved tab key nick completion method. Also can now complete
   nicks beginning with a prefix, eg. +nick
49./queryrn now allows _ in the new nickname.
50.Fixed $file() bug.
51.Fixed nicklist being double-spaced when you change the line-
   spacing for a channel.
52./echo -d now opens the message window if it's not already open.
53./background now works even if window isn't currently open, also
   allows you to set defaults.
54.Fixed Control+F find bug.
55.Fixed /vol command not working in 16bit.
56.Added "All" menu items to Position menu item in system menu.
57.Fixed Control+Shift+Insert not working when pasting /commands as
   plain text into a single-line editbox.
58.Fixed channels list window popup menu gpf bug.
59./ignore /auto /protect now display info in active window.
60.Can now call file dialog identifiers from a custom dialog event.
61./titlebar no longer changes case of @window name.
62.Editor dialog now indents lines following a $&.
63.Fixed /renwin allowing @window names > 90 characters.
64.Fixed auto-tile/cascade not working when selecting a window from
   the window menu.
65.Added /drawrot -hnbfc @ [colour] <angle> [x y w h], rotates area
   of bitmap by specified angle.

   -b indicates you've specified a background colour value.
   -f fits the newly rotated bitmap into the original width/height.
   -c centers the rotated image if -f isn't specified.

66.Removed support for "Start in" folder in shortcut icons, was
   causing too many problems.
67./firewall -c now clears userid/password.
68.Top level submenus in popup menus are now merged if they have
   the same name.
69.You no longer need to use [ ] inside $iif() to evaluate items.

   $iif() now only evaluates the 2nd and 3rd parameters after the
   if comparison itself has been evaluated.

70.mIRC now recognizes "IRCX" token in numeric 005 for ircds that
   support IRCX extensions.
71.Fixed $hotline not returning proper results with indented lines.
72.Improved log view dialog.
73.Fixed editor dialog tabs display bug when on desktop.
74.Added /play and /playctrl dialogs to control the /play queue.
75./window can now resize a minimized @window.
76.Changes to /hop, now clears the topic before a rejoin, also no
   longer parts a channel if you /hop to it while it's already open.
   Added /hop -c #channel switch, cycles any open channel, you can
   use -n to minimize the channel.
77.Fixed $readn bug.
78.$ini() no longer halts a script with an error if the INI file
   doesn't exist.
79./sockwrite and /sockudp no longer halt a script if they fail, they
   now set $sock().wserr to the error value, and also trigger the
   on sockwrite event with an error.
80.Fixed $sock().wsmg bug.
81.Fixed custom dialog "icon" property not accepting quoted LFNs.
82.The /draw -p and -r switches will now work together properly.
83.$readn is now set to zero if a $read -w search fails.
84./anick no longer changes your nick, unless altnick is the active
   nick. /nick will try to prevent nick and altnick from becoming
   identical nicks.
85.Integrated .chat file support into the exe.
86.The script parser no longer replaces ]] with ] if ]] has other text
   appended to it, eg. ]]sometext
87.Added SJIS/JIS option to IRC/Messages dialog for 32bit mIRC. When
   this option is turned on, the display and mark/copy of multi-byte
   characters should also work better.
88.Changed cps calculation method for DCC sends/gets.
89.Added /dcc get <dir> to redirect an incoming DCC send to dir (must
   be subdir of the main mIRC dir), and /dcc reject to reject the DCC
   send. These must be called from within the CTCP DCC send event or
   the on DCCSERVER send event. $filename returns name of file.
90.Added on EXIT event, ie. on 1:EXIT:/echo exiting mIRC
91.Extended ignore method in DCC options/folders dialog.
92.A notice will now add a user to your IAL if the user is on the same
   channel as you.
93.Fixed $nick().colour, was returning incorrect values.
94./hadd now allows you to add items without a data value.
95.Fixed on dialog event being triggered incorrectly for some controls
   when dialog is first created.
96.Fixed /unset bug when first character of variable is a wildcard,
   eg. /unset %*
97.Fixed while loop bug.
98.Added "match on" option to Highlight section edit dialog.
99.Added support for URL links in web pages, using the format
   <a href="irc://address:port/channel?key"></a> for example,
   <a href="irc://irc.undernet.org:6667/mIRC">#mIRC</a>

   Note: currently this format only seems to work with IE.

100.Can now set localinfo manually with /localinfo <host> <ip>.
101.Fixed $portfree() bug.
102.Improved channels folder dialog. Can now specify password,
    network and auto-join for each channel.

    If you try to join a channel, either via the toolbar channels
    folder popup menu, or in the channels folder, and you're not
    connected, mIRC will auto-connect to the server.

    You can now enter more than one channel per entry, where the
    first word is the group title, in the form:

      grouptitle #chan1 #chan2 etc.

103.Added "show topic" item to popup menu when right-clicking on
    a #channel name.
104.Added support for http proxy connections in firewall dialog.

05/09/2000 - mIRC v5.8

Changes:
1.Fixed agent bug, was speaking channel actions even if only private
  actions were enabled.
2.Fixed bug in /filter, /loadbuf for handling custom dialog controls.
3.Fixed $nick().colour not working if a nickname is specified instead
  of the Nth item.
4.mIRC now uses it's own internal beep.wav sound for event beeps, added
  as option to general dialog.
5.Fixed bug in dual monitor display support.
6.Fixed /did bug when changing text in the Tabs of a tabs dialog.
7.Can now use negative numbers in $mid, eg.$mid(text,-N,-N).
8.Fixed /firewall -mN bug.
9.Fixed /font not working with DCC chat =nicknames.
10.Fixed bug in $bytes().
11.Fixed /play -b switch only sending at 1000ms.
12.Can now use a part message with the /hop command.
13.Can now preview wav/mid files in file dialogs by holding the Alt
   key and double-clicking a filename.
14.Fixed bug in the 8.3 format of log filenames.
15.Fixed bug with $disk() and ntfs drives.
16.Changed "!nick sound" feature to ignore any text specified after
   the sound filename.
17.The local port used by the server connection is now limited to
   the range specified in the DCC Options dialog.
18.Custom dialogs now display any size .ico files properly.
19.Fixed $did().state and .enabled not working with menu items.
20.Added /dcc send -c switch, closes send window on completion.
21.Fixed DCC Options Max Gets bug in DCC server.
22.Added "show on desktop" item to Editor "options" menu.
23.The old default /hop alias is now ignored.
24.The channel nick list now retains nick colours across /names
   listings.
25.Only ban types 3 4 8 and 9 now have the encrypted = part of an
   address replaced with a wildcard.
26.Can now use /cline -r to reset nickname in channel listbox to
   default colour.
27.Fixed Control+F not scrolling to correct line in a window in
   some cases where lines are wrapped.
28.$binvar(&var,0) now returns 0 if &var doesn't exist.
29.Notify list now shows users address.
30.Added /btrunc <filename> <bytes> command, truncates/extends a
   file to specified length.
31.Changing the contents of a link item in a custom dialog now
   works if the link isn't currently displayed.
32.$banlist().by now returns the full address of the person setting
   the ban.
33.Fixed bug with icons in custom dialogs, they were clickable even
   if they were not visible.
34.Fixed Escape key not working with "hide when minimized" option.
35.$pic() now also supports JPG and PNG.
36.Extended /colour <name> <index>, can now also use /colour <index>
   <rgb> to change the rgb value of a colour.
37.Can now specify "noborder" in an "icon" definition in custom
   dialogs to prevent a border from being drawn around a picture.
38.BURK codes are now stripped out of logfile names.
39.Fixed bug in highlight feature, was matching against nicknames
   incorrectly in some cases.
40.Fixed bug in /filter -n switch.
41.Can now use /font -d switch to set font as default for window.
42.The flash message in the highlight feature can now contain
   %vars and $ids which will be evaluated.
43.Fixed highlight bug in "link" custom dialog control.
44.Colours in the channel nicklist are now reset to default if
   you rejoin the channel after a kick/disconnect.
45.Added $banlist().ctime, returns $ctime time format for ban date.
46.Added isban comparison, uses $banlist() to check if an address
   is banned, eg. if (*!*@*.net isban #channel) ...
47./window -h can now hide non-custom windows again.
48.Fixed while loops bug, weren't working properly in custom menus.
49.Added $scriptline, returns current script line number.
50.Fixed bug with Order dialog in Editor when ordering scripts.
51.Improved support for DLLs via /dll and $dll().

   You can now keep a DLL loaded by including a LoadDll() routine
   in your DLL, which mIRC calls the first time you load the DLL:

     void __declspec(dllexport) __stdcall (*LoadDll)(LOADINFO*);

     typedef struct {
       DWORD  mVersion;
       HWND   mHwnd;
       BOOL   mKeep;
     } LOADINFO;

     mVersion contains the mIRC version number in the low and high
     words.

     mHwnd contains the window handle to the main mIRC window.

     mKeep is set to TRUE by default, indicating that mIRC will keep
     the DLL loaded after the call. You can set mKeep to FALSE to
     make mIRC unload the DLL after the call (which is how previous
     mIRCs worked).

   You can unload a loaded DLL by using:

     /dll -u <filename>

     $dll(N/filename) returns the list of loaded DLLs.

   You can also define an UnloadDll() routine in your DLL which
   mIRC will call when unloading the DLL to allow it to clean up.

   mIRC will automatically unload a DLL if it is not used for ten
   minutes, or when mIRC exits, UnloadDll() will also be called
   in these situations:

     int __declspec(dllexport) __stdcall (*UnloadDll)(int mTimeout);

     The mTimeout value can be:

     0   UnloadDll() is being called due to a DLL being unloaded
         when mIRC exits, or unloaded with /dll -u.

     1   UnloadDll() is being called due to a DLL not being used for
         ten minutes. The UnloadDll() routine can return 0 to keep
         the DLL loaded, or 1 to allow it to be unloaded.

52.mIRC will now properly parse server messages that aren't prefixed
   with a server address, and will use the server address prefix in
   numeric 001 for such non-prefixed messages.
53.Fixed bug in flood protection feature.
54.Nick changes now update nick in query window titlebars.
55.Added $server().pass property for server password.
56.Added /echo -n switch, prevents /echo from highlighting switchbar
   icon.
57.Fixed handling of throttle error message on undernet servers.
58.Added Advanced dialog to connect/options dialog, allows turning
   on/off of random local ports, and specifying bind address.
59.Find dialog now allows you to search for BURK codes.
60.On keydown/keyup now capture all key events in custom windows.
61.Cancel away on keypress option now works for /me messages.
62.Fixed bug in $did().seltext, it now also returns $crlf between
   each line.
63.Added /filter -b key, strips BURK codes when matching text.
64.Added $onpoly(n1,n2,x,y,x,y,...), checks if two polygons are
   overlapped, returns $true/$false. n1 is the number of points for
   the first polygon, n2 is for the second polygon.
65.Added $bvar(&var,N).word,nword,long,nlong, returns values in host
   and network byte order.
66.Fixed bug in $isalias() not recognizing local -l aliases when
   called from the local script.
67./splay now supports .mp3 files, also added on MP3END event,
   $inmp3, and $mp3dir (folder can be specified in Sound requests
   dialog).

   Added $mp3(filename) identifier, with properties: album, title,
   artist, year, comment, genre, track, length, version, bitrate,
   variable, sample, mode, copyright, private, crc.

   The /splay command has also been extended to:

   /splay -wmpq [filename | stop | pause | resume | seek | skip] [pos]

   Where w = wave, m = midi, p = mp3, and q = queue for playing.

   If you specify [pos] value when playing an mp3, mIRC will play
   from that position, eg. /splay ipanema.mp3 1000

   You can seek to a position in an mp3 while it's being played with
   eg. /splay seek 1000

   You can skip the currently playing sound with /splay [-wmp] skip

   Extended $inwave, $inmidi, and $inmp3, with properties .fname,
   .pos, .length, eg. $inmp3.pos

   You can use the /vol -wmpvuN [volume] command to set the volume on
   your system for waves, midis, mp3s (same as waves), or -v which
   sets the master volume, range 0 to 65000. The -uN switch sets the
   mute, where N = 1 is on, N = 2 is off.

   You can use $vol(wave|midi|mp3|master) to get the current volume,
   and $vol().mute returns the mute setting.

68.Changed behavior of on HOTLINK event, /halt in one script will
   no longer affect the event in a following script.
69.Extended $os to detect ME.
70.Added test button to agent lexicon dialog.
71.Can now use N = 0 in $did(name,id,N) to access the edit control
   in a combobox, and N = 0 in /did to modify it.
72.Fixed /did -g not handling quote-enclosed filenames.
73.Fixed /play -b requiring delay value, now uses default if none
   specified.
74.The B and C parameters in $width(text,font,size,B,C) are now
   optional.
75.Added $wrap(text, font, size, width, [word,] N), returns Nth line
   wrapped to width. If optional word parameter is 1, text is wrapped
   at whole words (default).
76.Improved handling of \\network paths. mIRC can now also be run
   from a network path and will correctly use that path as root for
   INI files, folders, etc.
77.Channel central now enables Op settings for IRCops.
78.Identifiers called in popup menu titles can now use $1- to refer
   to the selected listbox item.
79.Added /play -n switch, sends a notice instead of a message.
80.Fixed /close bug, wasn't closing multiple sends/etc. properly.
81.Added /drawpic -l switch, tiles picture in specified area.
82.Added $keychar to on keyup/keydown events, returns the actual
   character being pressed as opposed to the key code.
83.Editor now defaults to last used folder when displaying the load
   file dialog.
84.The D parameter in $round(N,D) is now optional.
85.Added identifiers to encode/decode %vars or &binvars:

     $encode(%var | &binvar, mubt, N)
     $decode(%var | &binvar, mubt, N)

   The last two parameters are optional.

   The second parameter consists of switches, where m = mime,
   u = uucode (default), b = &binvar, and t = text (default).

   The final encoded line is made up of 60-character chunks.
   You can specify N if you want mIRC to return the Nth chunk.
   N = 0 returns the total number of chunks in the line.

   If encoding/decoding a &binvar, the identifiers return the
   actual number of characters written to the &binvar.

   Encoding uses 33% more storage space.

86./query now displays address in titlebar if user is in IAL. The
   Message window now also displays the address in the titlebar for
   the last received message.
87.Selecting a server in the connect dialog now makes it the default
   server even if you press the OK button in another section of the
   options dialog.
88.Fixed $mouse.x/y/dx/dy returning invalid values in some cases.
89.Can now close Editor dialog while script initialization warning
   dialog is displayed.
90.The $banlist() identifier has been changed to $ibl(). Also the
   $chan().banlist property is now $chan().ibl. The old formats are
   still supported.

   The IBL (internal banlist) is now updated every time it sees a
   ban. You can fill it completely with /mode #channel +b.

91.mIRC no longer sends a default quit message if you haven't
   specified one.
92./dcc send and /fserve now handle LFNs better.
93.Added /queryrn <nick> <newnick> changes nick of an open query.
94.Added /var -s switch to show local variable being set.
95.Added /anick command, allows you to change your alternate nick,
   even while connected. Also added $mnick and $anick, return your
   main and alternate nicknames.
96.Added right-click popup menu for url hotlinks.
97.Added $window().hwnd and $dialog().hwnd property.
98.Added $window().icon, returns "on" or "off" depending on whether
   a window icon is visible. Note that $window().state no longer
   replies with "hidden".
99.Custom windows can now be logged, "logging" item in system menu.
100.$ulist(*,N) now returns all matches in user list including just
    nickname entries.
101.$fline() now allows you to search for BURK codes.
102.Fixed resizing channel nicklist bug when channel is placed on
    the desktop.
103.Added "include network" switch in logging dialog, includes name
    of network in log filename.
104.The popup menu in the Channels List window now allows you to
    join channels/etc. while retrieving the channels list.
105./log now allows you to log a file to any directory.
106.Fixed auto-tile causing a maximized window to de-maximize when
    resizing the main mIRC window. Auto-tile should also work better
    now when a minimized window is restored.
107.Fixed lexicon not being applied to all agent messages.
108."No such nick/channel" message is now shown in query windows.
109.Background pictures in custom dialogs now behave better when
    mixed with other controls.
110.Fixed bug with $ctrlenter when text was pasted into editbox,
    also added $inpaste.
111.Fixed infinite while loop bug.
112.Fixed click events on icons in custom dialog events, is now
    more precise.
113.Development notes: mIRC 32bit in future may not work under win32s
    win3.1. This will allow me to support new technologies in the
    32bit. mIRC 16bit may continue to be developed, with bugfixes,
    where possible.
114.Fixed $findfile() bug, if full path wasn't being specified may
    not have worked.
115.Added /set -n switch, treats following values as plain text
    instead of a calculation.
116.Added $nick().pnick property, returns .@%+nick format.
117.Added $remote, returns ctcp/event/raw on/off status or'd together,
    ie. 1 | 2 | 4, eg. if ($remote & 1) ctcp is on.
118.Fixed resource leak in DCC Send/Get windows display.
119.New channel central dialog, made display of banlist info  clearer,
    and now shows related auto-unban info. Also added Edit button,
    allows editing of an address.
120.Added /timer -h switch, creates a multimedia timer. Only works in
    32bit mIRC. Also added $timer().mmt property.

    Since multimedia timers are a scarce resource, and cpu intensive,
    mIRC allocates one multimedia timer and uses it for all of your
    -h timers. In order to keep cpu usage down to a minimum, the
    delay of this timer is dynamically changed as /timers are created
    or destroyed so as to use the lowest common denominator delay.

    The moment you don't have any -h timers running, mIRC frees the
    multimedia timer. If mIRC is unable to allocate a multimedia
    timer, it uses the normal /timer -m millisecond timer.

121.Made changes to mouse leave event, should work better when used
    for drag events.
122.Channel nicklist and IAL routines now use hashtable lookups to
    speed processing.
123.mIRC now displays the "files changed" dialog if you try to exit
    mIRC while the editor dialog is open.
124.Fixed /window command not handling floating point values for
    x y w h paramters.
125.mIRC can now be run as a service under 95/98 by specifying
    -service on the shortcut command line.
126.Custom window menu/mouse events now process the script which
    created the /window before looking through other scripts.
127.Fixed bug in $dbuw and $dbuh not returning the correct values.
128.Added hash table support for scripting. A hash table can be
    created/destroyed/modified using:

      /hmake <name> <N>           -  create a new hash table size N
      /hfree <name>               -  destroy an existing hash table

      /hadd <name> <item> <data>  -  add an item
      /hdel <name> <item>         -  delete an item

    You can use -s with all commands to show output, and -w with
    /hfree and /hdel to make them treat the name or item as a wildcard
    to free all matching items.

    A hash table can store an unlimited number of items regardless
    of the N size you choose, however the bigger N is the faster it
    will work, depending on the number of items stored.

      /hload <name> <filename>    -  load table from a file
      /hsave <name> <filename>    -  save table to a file

    By default, these load/save plain text to a text file, with item
    and data on separate lines ($cr and $lf characters are stripped
    from text before saving). You can use -b to load/save binary files.
    You can also use -n to make them load/saves files as data only,
    with no items.

    /hsave also supports -o to overwite an existing file, and -a to
    append to an existing file.

    To reference the contents of a hash table, you can use:    

      $hget(name/N)        -  returns name of a hash table if it exists,
                              or returns the name of the Nth hash table.
                             .size property returns the size of table

      $hget(name/N,item)   -  returns the data associated with an item

    You can also reference the table as an index from 0 to N using
    $hget(name/N,N).item which returns the Nth item name in the table.
    If N is zero, returns the total number of items in the table. This
    method is provided as a convenience, it is not an efficient way to
    use the hash table.

    Note: the hash table is case-insensitive.

129.Changed $ial(mask,N) to make N optional (defaults to 1), and mask
    can now be just a nickname.
130.Can now use $did().seltext on a listbox/combobox to return the text
    of the first selected item.
131.Fixed $isdir() bug.
132.Added "Save and Log As" item to system menu, allows saving buffer
    and starting a log in one selection.
133.Fixed hotlink bug on ircx servers with .nick owner prefix.
134.mIRC no longer splits logs at midnight for chats, it only does this
    for channel logs now.
135.All matching mouse events in custom window menus are triggered now,
    previously mIRC was only triggering the first matching event and
    ignoring all remaining scripts.
136.Fixed DCC chat bug, initiating a DCC chat from behind a firewall
    wasn't working properly.
137.Fixed notify list focus bug.
138.mIRC now uses the "start in" folder in a shortcut icon as the
    root folder. Can override with -r command line switch.
139.Added $notify().addr property, works on watch-enabled ircds.
140.Fixed DCC send/get/chat time-out gpf bug.

07/05/2000 - mIRC v5.71

Changes:
1.Fixed text wrapping bug in /gtalk.
2.Fixed scrollbar not being displayed in address book nick listbox.
3.Fixed switchbar display bug.
4.The toolbar/switchbar now use colour 255,0,255 as the background
  transparent colour.
5.Changed the way $null is processed when used in identifiers.
6.Fixed bug with mark/copy routine display not working properly
  when an Agent is over a window.
7.Voice commands may or may not work in desktop windows, this seems
  to be a limitation of the SR software you are using.
8.Fixed icon display bug in custom dialogs.
9.Can now have unlimited controls per tab section in a custom dialog,
  also fixed bug with visible/hidden state not being preserved for
  controls.
10.Fixed Editor dialog display bug when "minimizing all" via task
   bar menu.
11.Fixed bug in handling of port ranges for IRC servers list.
12.When clicking the "Connect" button to connect to a server, you
   can now hold down the Control key to force mIRC to use the next
   server in the list.
13.Fixed /close bug.
14.Fixed quit message in channel window not showing user's address.
15.$dbuw and $dbuh now return a decimal value.
16.Fixed small offset bug in $window().dx/dy.
17.Now checks for /window "@Invalid Format".
18.Changed behavior in editbox which was making it incompatible with
   applications which paste text into mIRC, eg. NJStar.
19.Changed default editbox in Editor dialog back to standard non-rtf
   editbox, the rtf editbox was behaving oddly.
20.Clicking right-button in a non-active window editbox now makes
   the window active.
21.Added option in lock dialog to hide the list of channels/queries
   in tray menu when mIRC is locked.
22.Added "mIRC window always on top" switch to Windows dialog.
23.Fixed bug in handling of {} brackets in some situations.
24.Added /username and /emailaddr command, allow you to set the
   corresponding values in the connect dialog.
25.Should handle UNC paths/filenames properly now.
26.If you do $dir sounds\*.*, the full path defaults to the mIRC dir.
27.Can now send "!nick file" to channel by pressing Control+Enter.
28.DCC Send "filetype ignored" message now shows filename.
29.Added support for JPG and PNG files in 32bit mIRC.
30.Fixed background picture bug, if the bmp was very small the "fill"
   mode would fail to display it properly.
31.Number of users in channel now shown in channel titlebar.
32.Added $poscs() case sensitive version of $pos().
33.You can now use <nosize nopace nohide> to turn these options off
   in the /gopts -b command.
34.Fixed display bug if you had paragraph-spacing turned on in a
   window with a background picture.
35.Can now use $ids and &vars in custom dialog tables.
36.Fixed bug in $base(), can handle larger values. It now also
   strips out 0x number prefix, eg. from 0x0809.
37.Agent now tries to set the language id for speaking based on the
   language id of the TTS module on your system. If it can't, it
   defaults to a US language ID. Can now also be set manually with
   /gopts -n <name> <langid> where langid is the hex id value.
38.DCC chat send/recv errors now trigger the on close event.
39.Fixed +e handling on Conference Room servers which use +e as a
   channel mode, not as the exception list mode as on IRCnet.
40.$mask() now replaces part of an address containings an equal
   '=' sign with a '*' wild card, for ircds, eg. conference room,
   that encrypt part of the address and use '=' to mark it.
41.Fixed "paragraph" spacing not working in listbox windows, eg.
   notify list, etc.
42.Fixed gpf bug in the view menu in the Popups editor dialog.
43.Fixed bug with spacebar not displaying popup menu in a listbox.
44.$window() now lists DCC chat windows as =chatname to be compatible
   with $active.
45.Added /clearial command to clear the internal address list.
46.Added /socklist command, lists open custom sockets.
47.Fixed bug with /remini, mIRC now replaces all [] characters in
   INI section names and headers with ~ when using INI commands and
   identifiers.
48.Changed Highlight method, when using wildcards the wildcard text
   is matched against individual words separated by spaces, instead
   of against the whole line, eg. "test*" will match "Now testing".
49.Added /play -b switch, plays text in the clipboard to a window. The
   text is temporarily saved to a file playqN.txt, which is deleted
   once playing is completed.
50.Fixed page up/down scrolling too far when using paragraph line
   spacing.
51.Fixed switchbar display for time-out DCC sends/gets.
52.mIRC now maintains an internal banlist for each channel. Added
   $chan().banlist, returns $true if mode +b has been seen already,
   or $false if not, or $inmode if currently in a mode +b listing.

   Added $banlist(#channel,N) identifier, returns Nth item, or if N
   is 0 returns total number of items in list. $banlist().by returns
   the address of the user who set the ban, and $banlist().date
   returns the date.

   Note: this feature does not work on ircx servers.

53.The isop comparison now evalutes to true if a nick is an owner on
   ircx servers.
54.Added support for menus in custom dialogs:

   dialog name {
     menu "text", <menuid> [, menuid]
     item "text", <id> [, menuid]
     item break, <id> [, menuid]
   }

   If you don't specify a [menuid] for an item, it will use the last
   menuid that was created/used in a previous menu/item.

   on 1:dialog:name:menu:*:{
     echo 5 $dname $devent $did
   }

   You can use /did -ebcuadio to enable/disable, check/uncheck, append,
   delete, insert, and overwrite a menu item.

   To add an item to a menu you can use: /did -a name <menuid> <newid>
   <text>.

   To insert an item you must use: /did -i name <id> <newid> <text>
   where <id> is the item before which you want to insert an item.

   Note: You can use the text "break" to refer to a break item in the
   /did command.

55.Fixed while loop bug in custom window popup menus.
56.Ctcp version requests are now queued, and the replies are sent once
   every few seconds.
57.DCC Get now locks the file being downloaded to prevent it being
   modified/over-written by a second download or other applications.
58.Can now resize nicknames listbox in channel windows.
59.Added "DCC Fail" event sound to Sounds section.
60.Changed /url [on|off|show|hide|-ran] [[N|mark]|address] -r removes
   either the Nth item, or all items that match the mark. You can also
   do /url -an address to visit a new URL, where -a = activate browser,
   -n = use new browser window.
61.Added $bytes(N,bkmgt3).suf identifier, returns comma formatted filesize.
62.Improved /var, now handles identifiers containing commas better
   though note that you should use the equal sign in the definition,
   eg. /var %x = etc.
63.Added $sock().wserr,wsmsg returns winsock error number and message
   for a socket in the event of a socket error.
64.Custom dialog Tab control now automatically adds a scrollbar if the
   tabs don't fit the width of the tab control.
65.Fixed $prop and $isid not working in $iif() identifier.
66.Added "Show mode prefix" to IRC dialog, prefixes nicks in messages
   with their .@%+ mode on a channel.
67.Fixed memory bug in DCC window popup menus.
68.Server socket now binds to a random local port.
69.File type selection in file dialogs is now set more intelligently.
70.Added Agents section to Options dialog. You can also turn agent
   on or off for a window via the channel or query window system menu.

   Added new switches:

   /gtalk -lu <text> switch, where -l applies lexicon settings to
   text, and -u uses the speech settings, ie. pitch, volume, the
   increase speed setting, etc.

   /gload -h and /gopts -h <on | off> switch, makes mIRC hide the
   agent when mIRC is minimized. Also added $agent().hide property.
   You can also use the -h switch with the other agent commands
   to prevent them from popping the agent when mIRC is minimized
   and has the -h setting.

71.Added /loadbuf -r switch, resets contents of window.
72.Fixed bug in /ignore /auto /protect, if you used -r to remove an
   address, and the entry contained a #channel, the address wasn't
   being removed.
73.Fixed bug with control+copy when copying text and control codes.
74.Fixed bug when using /filter -io where dialog name contained a
   '.' character.
75.$mklogfn() now appends date to filename if you have the dated
   logfiles option turned on in the logging dialog.
76.Fixed max DCC gets bug in fileserver.
77.Added custom dialog editbox item "limit N" which limits text in
   an editbox to N characters.
78.Can now rename tabs in a tab control using /did.
79.Added /hop [#channel [key]] command, parts the current channel
   and joins a new one. If no channel is specified, it parts and
   rejoins the current channel without closing the window.
80.Can now use /url to open email addresses as well.
81.Added hyperlinks to custom dialogs:

   link "test", id, x y w h

82.Added $disk().size property.
83.Added $file().atime, .mtime, .ctime, return last access and
   modify time, and creation time.
84.Fixed bug with $findfile() and $finddir() not being able to see
   local variables in a command.
85.For ircx compatible servers which mIRC doesn't recognize, you can
   send /ircx to the server on connect, and if mIRC receives the 800
   numeric reply, it will treat the server as ircx internally.
86.Fixed switchbar display bug when windows are maximized in some
   situations.
87.Added /showmirc -op switches, -o sets mIRC on top, -p removes
   the on top setting.
88.Changed the "ignore types" feature in DCC options, now works as
   "ignore all except". Also added ignore timer, allows you to turn
   off the ignore temporarily.
89.Fixed positions of windows not being saved correctly if windows
   taskbar was positioned to top or left of desktop.
90.Fixe $sdir changing folder name to lowercase.
91.The notice sent before initiating a DCC chat for a fileserver now
   says "DCC Fserve" instead of "DCC Chat".
92.Added Kick event to Options/IRC/Show dialog and Channel central.
93.Added "Highlight nicknames" option to Display/options dialog, it
   colours nickname prefixes in messages with the "highlight text"
   colour.

   Note: if you use the /cline command to colour a nickname in a
   channel nicklist, the nicks colour in the listbox is used as the
   highlight colour.

94.Fixed bug in mark/copy routine, in some cases may not have been
   copying text to clipboard properly.
95.Fixed bug with ! command prefix, was affecting subsequent commands
   when used in a script.
96.Fixed /drawcopy bug.
97.Added menu { rclick:/command } event, only triggers in a custom
   @window if no menu items are defined.

   Also added $mouse.lb property, returns $true if a mouse event
   occurred in a listbox.

98.Improved support for dual monitor displays in 32bit mIRC, added
   switch to Display/options dialog.
99.Added $nick().colour property, returns nickname colour, if it's
   not coloured, returns highlight colour.

02/02/2000 - mIRC v5.7

Changes:
1.Fixed $ord() bug.
2.Corrected parts of help file.
3.Changed identd server behavior.
4.Fixed custom dialog icons bug in tab control.
5.Fixed Control-Q/N minimizing windows.
6./raw quit now won't trigger the "reconnect on disconnect" switch
  in the IRC options dialog.
7.Fixed bug in custom identifiers where the 255 character was being
  interpreted as a separator.
8.Fixed custom dialogs Tab control display bug.
9.Added network listbox to connect dialog.
10.Fixed "max remotely initiated DCC sends" allowing one more DCC
   than specified.
11.Fixed bug in !nick filename, when filename is an LFN containing
   spaces.
12.Fixed mIRC not remembering minimized state if closed while it
   was minimized to tray.
13.Fixed custom dialog tab control button sizes in "pixels" mode.
14.Added $didwm(name,id,wildtext,N) which returns the number of the
   line that matches wildtext, with the search starting at line N,
   N is optional.
15./identd now saves the settings to mirc.ini.
16.The % helper mode on channels is now recognized on all servers,
   not just on IRCnet servers. Note: this will inevitably cause
   problems with scripts, since % is the %variable prefix.
17.Editor dialog now warns you if files haven't changed when you
   exit the dialog without saving. Also added option to turn this
   behavior on or off.
18.Can now /clipboard -a to append text to existing text in the
   clipboard.
19.The custom timestamp set in options dialog, messages section, is
   now used for time-stamping all messages/logs/etc.
20.Fixed cursor not being set properly when using Tab key to evaluate
   an item in an editbox.
21.Channels in channels folder are now stored in chanfldr.ini file.
22.The ircx prop MEMBERKEY event is now interpreted as mode +k and an
   on MODE event, and the prop TOPIC event is interpreted as on TOPIC.
23.The "not connected" message displayed for commands that need a
   connection to a server now contains script/line number info.
24.If connected to a server, you can now hold down shift-key when
   pressing OK in Options dialog to set selected server.
25.Added "sort files by nickname into own folders" feature in DCC
   Folders dialog.
26.The "date logfiles" logging option now closes all logfiles with
   dated filenames at 12am and re-opens them with the new date.
27.Invalid table error for custom dialogs now provides more info.
28.Fixed bug in /background command updating mirc.ini incorrectly.
29.Can now specify negative index in $gettok(), eg.
   $gettok(a.b.c.d.e.f,-3,46) returns d
   $gettok(a.b.c.d.e.f,-3-,46) returns d.e.f
30.Fixed bug in $did() not being able to read the "text" control in
   custom dialogs if it had the "center" style set.
31.Extended editbox handling in custom dialogs:

   $did().seltext    returns selected text in an editbox
   $did().selstart   returns select start character in editbox line
   $did().selend     returns select end character in editbox line

   /did -c name id [n] [start [end]]

   This selects line N in editbox, and sets selection to specified
   range of characters.

32.Added option to Messages dialog to strip codes section only if
   there are more than N codes in a messages.
33.Extended $strip(text,burcmo), where m = strip codes according to
   settings in Messages dialog, and o = strip codes using the "only"
   setting in the messages dialog if it is turned on.
34.Can now hold down Control key while copying text in a window with
   the mouse if you want control codes included.
35.Fixed finger server bug, was leaving CR appended to nickname.
36.Added "on top" setting to editor dialog.
37.Fixed bug in DCC Send dialog not displaying file size info properly
   if "hide file extensions for known file types" was turned on in
   windows.
38.Added $sorttok(text,C,ncr) identifier, default is alphabetic sort,
   optional parameters n = numeric sort, c = channel nick prefix sort,
   r = reverse sort.
39.The "search all files" option in the find dialog in editor now
   works when you are replacing text.
40.Added $ini(file,topic/N,item/N), where item/N is optional, and can
   specify N = 0 for total, or item name to see if it exists, etc.
   It replaces $initopic() which is still supported but removed from
   documentation.
41.Added $ctrlenter identifier, returns $true if Control-Enter was
   pressed when entering a message/command.
42.Date/time format spec. now allows TT for uppercase AM/PM, and ZZZ
   for a timezone with GMT appended.
43.Fixed $hotline, now returns the full line where a link occurs, even
   if the line wraps.
44.Fixed $isdir() not working on NT network drives.
45.Fixed /did -f not working in custom dialog init event.
46.Added $didtok(name,id,C), creates tokenized list from list/combo/edit
   box, and /didtok name id C text, adds tokenized list to list/combo/
   edit box. 
47.If "tooltips" are turned off, tooltips won't appear over switchbar
   buttons any longer.
48.Quotes around filenames are now removed before the filename is used
   in $isfile/isdir/file/ini/findfile/finddir/getdir/lines/nofile/nopath
   shortfn/dccignore/dll.
49.Fixed bug in /sockwrite -n only appended an LF instead of CRLF.
50.Fixed /close -cgsf only closing the first window.
51.Fixed nickname highlight bug in DCC chat windows.
52.Right-click on alias/popup/remote/send toolbar buttons now pops up
   quick access menus.
53.Control+L in Editor now opens the Load file dialog, Control+S now
   saves the current file, and Control+H now checks the brackets.
54.Added support for while loops. Repeats a loop while the expression
   in brackets is true. Multiple while loops can be embedded. You can
   use /break to break out of the current loop. You can also use the
   /continue command to jump to the beginning of the loop.

   var %i = 1
   while (%i <= 10) {
     echo 2 %i
     inc %i
     if (%i > 5) break
   }

55.Fixed bug with /filter, was displaying a hidden control in a
   custom dialog when outputting to it.
56.$numtok(text,C) now returns zero if text is empty.
57./if comparisons now handle $null values properly. In the case of
   a string comparison $null is treated as an empty string. In the
   case of a number comparison, if either of the values is $null
   the comparison fails.
58.Added $send().secs and $get().secs, returns number of seconds
   that the connection has been open.
59.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.

   You can override this by using /dcc send -lN switch, limits
   transfer speed for a DCC send to N cps. If you specify zero, no
   limit is applied.

   The /dcc maxcps <N> command can be used to changed the Max Cps
   value on the fly.
60.Custom /dialogs created on the desktop can now be minimized. Can
   use /dialog -ie <name> to minimize or restore the dialog.
61.Added /localinfo -uh command, looks up and sets your local info
   settings. The -u switch performs a /userhost lookup, the -h switch
   does a normal lookup.
62.Fixed channel /mode +k bug.
63.Fixed bug with "show whois in active window" feature.
64.Added $did().edited returns $true/$false depending on whether text
   in an editbox was modified. Can reset the modify flag using the
   /did -j switch.
65.Added two colour listboxes to Options/display dialog, the message
   listbox for normal messages, the highlight listbox for messages
   that match your highlight settings.
66.Added $prop property identifier for custom identifiers which use
   properties, eg. $test(value).help, in this case, $prop will return
   the value "help".
67.Can now specify a range in the Ports section of an IRC server
   entry, eg. 6665-7000
68.Added titlebar right-click option in General dialog.
69.Added /if isalpha comparison, evaluates true if the specified
   parameter is all text.
70.Fixed drive a:\ access bug.
71.Installer now sets up support for .chat files in registry.
72.Custom dialogs now allow Id numbers from 1 to 3000.
73.Fixed on NOSOUND event bug.
74.Control+V/Shift+Insert now allow you to hold down the keys to
   paste repeatedly.
75.mIRC now allows you to select the script for a font in the font
   dialog, to support arabic, cyrillic, etc. characters. The script
   selection is stored along with the normal font info in mirc.ini.
76.Added support for Microsoft Agent in mIRC 32bit under win95 or
   greater. I downloaded all of the files on:

     http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/imedia/agent/agentdl.asp

   /gload <name> <filename | N | default>
   /gunload <name>

   /gshow <name> [x y]
   /ghide <name>

   /gmove <name> <x> <y> [speed]
   /gsize <name> <w> <h>

   /gtalk -kw <name> <text | <wavefile | text>>
          -k   - think text
          -w   - play wave file

   /gplay <name> <animname | N> [timeout]
   /gpoint <name> <x y>

   /gstop -c <name> [talk play]
          -c   - stops only the current anim/talk instead of all

   /gopts -bieq <name> <on off size pace hide>
          -b   - balloons: <on size pace hide | off>
          -i   - idle effects: <on off>
          -e   - sound effects: <on off>

   /gqreq <on off>
          - turns queuing of messages on or off, default on.

   $agentver   - returns Agent version, 0 if not installed
   $agentstat  - returns 1 if Agent ready, or 0 if busy/speaking

   $agent(name).name, fname, visible, x, y, w, h, ow, oh,
                speed, pitch, idle, effects, active, langid,
                balloon

   name    - the name you gave to this agent
   fname   - the filename of the agent, ie. merlin.acs, or "default"
             if you didn't specify a filename
   visible - returns $true or $false
   x,y,w,h - left/top position, width/height.
   ow, oh  - original width/height
   speed   - speaking speed
   pitch   - speaking pitch
   idle    - if idle behavior is on or off
   effects - if sound effects are on or off
   active  - if this agent is active/topmost
   langid  - language id of system
   balloon - current setting: on off size pace hide

   $agent(N).char

   char    - returns filename of Nth available agent, if you specify 0
             returns total number of installed agents.

   $agent(name,N).anim, line

   anim    - returns the names of the animations available for playing
             for this agent. If you specify 0, returns the total number
             of animations. If you specify N, returns the name of the
             Nth animation.

   line    - returns the list of lines currently queued to be spoken
             for this character. If you specify 0, returns total number
             of queued lines. If you specify N, returns the Nth line.

   You can also use tags in /gtalk in <text> which may be recognized by
   the text-to-speech engine, these are a few:

   \spd=nnn\      - set speed of spoken text
   \pit=nnn\      - set pitch of spoken text
   \vol=nnn\      - set volume of spoken text
   \chr="string"\ - where string is normal, monotone, or whisper
   \ctx="string"\ - address, email, unknown
   \emp\          - emphasize next word
   \pau=nnn\      - pause speech nnn milliseconds
   \rst\          - reset settings to default

   $notags(text)  - removes the above tags from text, but only if the
                    tags are correctly written as above.

   Notes:
   1. mIRC queues all requests and plays them one after the other
      to ensure that even if you use multiple agents at the same
      time, all messages will be heard, and all agents will act in
      the order that you requested.

      You can turn queuing on/off using /gqreq <on | off> on the
      fly.

   2. You can't load more than one of the same agent, ie. if you
      load Genie, you can't load a second Genie. You can however
      load Genie, Merlin, Peedy, and any other custom characters
      all at the same time.

   3. Looping animations prevent an agent from doing anything else
      until you /gstop the agent. The [timeout] value in /gplay
      allows you to specify a maximum time-limit for an animation
      after which it is automatically stopped, and the agent will
      then perform the remaining queued requests. If you don't
      specify a timeout value, the default is 5 seconds. If no
      play or talk requests are pending, the looping animation
      continues beyond the timeout until there are.

77.The $filename identifier can now be used in the on PLAYEND event
   to refer to the filename that was just played.
78.Added .logfile property to $chan(), $chat(), $query(), and
   $window(), returns logfile name if a log is open for the window,
   otherwise returns $null.
79.Changed channel central dialog, uses a tabbed dialog, and adds
   support for the +e and +I IRCnet channel modes. Also added a
   display section for redirecting channels events.
80.If you have Speech Recognition (SR) software installed, mIRC can
   be made to listen to voice commands by using:

     /vcmd -lc <on | off | sleep>
           -c      - clears the command list
           -l      - lists current commands
           sleep   - ignores commands temporarily

     /vcadd <command1,command2,...>
     /vcrem <command1,command2,...>

   If the SR software matches a word you've spoken to a word in your
   commands list, mIRC triggers the VCMD event:

     on 1:VCMD:<matchtext>:<*/#/?/@>:/echo 3 Recognized: $1-

   The $vcmd(N) identifier returns the Nth item in the voice commands
   list.

   $vcmdver  - returns version of SR software, $null if not installed

   $vcmdstat - returns 0 not available
                       1 currently off
                       2 ignoring commands
                       3 listening

   Notes:
   1. Your SR software may have very large speech files/dictionaries,
      it could take 10 or more seconds for your SR software to load
      or unload, and may be slow while processing your speech, causing
      short pauses in mIRC.
   2. Adding or removing commands can be done on the fly, however if
      your SR software is slow at updating the commands list, mIRC
      has to wait until it finishes.

81.Fixed custom dialogs DBU bug in dialog "size" item, was creating
   dialogs that were 10 or so pixels taller than they should be.
82.If a new window opens while you are in a dialog, eg. script editor,
   the new window no longer takes away the focus from the dialog.

   If you want to force a custom window to take focus, you can use the
   /window -a switch when creating the window.

83.The message highlight section in the Options/IRC dialog now matches
   against whole words, or words enclosed in non-alphabetic characters.
   You can use wildcards *? to make a word match non-whole words.
84./unset now evaluates variables inside [] brackets, this allows you to
   unset variables with dynamically created names:

   test  {
     set %a [ $+ b ] 1
     set %a [ $+ c ] 2
     set %a [ $+ d ] 3
     unset %a [ $+ b ] %a [ $+ c ] %a [ $+ d ]
   }

85./part can now close an open channel window while not connected.
87.Changed behavior of /disconnect and /quit, can now cancel a connect
   in progress.
88.You can now remove a nick from your Tab Key list with Control-D.
89.Added $mklogfn(filename) identifier, returns the filename format that
   the logging feature uses, $mknickfn(nickname) fixes a nickname for use
   as a filename, and $mkfn(filename), removes invalid characters.
90.You can now prevent a command from being processed as an alias by
   prefixing it with a ! character, eg. /!command etc.
91.Added event: on 1:PONG:echo pong reply: $1-, note: you can't use this
   to intercept /pings to your own nickname, this is used internally by
   mIRC.
92.Can now use $editbox(=name) for DCC chat editboxes.
93.Fixed a bug in sclick event for comboboxes in custom dialogs.
94.Made a change to the way sockets are closed throught-out mIRC.
95.Fixed bug in /did command causing hidden controls to become visible.
96.The "photo" display method of background pictures can now display
   pictures properly regardless of their height/width ratio.
97.The problem with the + character being changed to & in custom dialogs
   is now fixed.
98.Added .stamp property to $chan(), $chat(), $query(), and $window(),
   returns timestamp setting.
99.Added $dbuw and $dbuh, return dbu per pixel width and height.
100.Changed parsing method for most identifiers so that your custom
    identifiers will now work even if they begin with the same letters
    as internal identifiers.

    Directory related identifiers have not been updated, eg. $mircdir,
    $getdir, $cd, etc. since many widely used scripts append text
    directly to them, ie.:

      //splay $file="Select wave:" $mircdirsounds\

    Instead of using the (better) format:

      //splay $file="Select wave:" $mircdir $+ sounds\

101.Removed support for the very old $parm and *N identifiers.
102.Fixed bug in /drawrect, sizing was slightly off. You can now
    also specify negative values for the width/height.
103.Extended "Date filenames" feature to allow you to date filenames
    by day, week, or month. If dated by week, log files begin on days
    1, 7, 14, and 21, and if dated by month, they begin on day 1.
104.Added support for single/double/paragraph line spacing in windows,
    can set default in Options/Display section, and for each window
    via the system menu.
105.Fixed bug in socket-related routines which may have affected IRC
    server connection, DCC Send/Get, and Custom sockets.
106.Changing the MDI/desktop setting of a window no longer makes mIRC
    forget the previously saved window position.
107.Fixed bug where mIRC was leaving tmpN.$$$ files in mIRC directory
    in certain situations.
108.Can now stop a /list on Undernet servers by selecting the "stop
    listing" item in the Channels List window menu.
109.Hotlink feature should be a bit smarter when matching nicknames
    to a link now.
110.Extended $os to detect 2000.
111.mIRC now re-adds its icon to the tray if the tray is restarted.
112.Added "copy messages to query" option in IRC dialog; if you're
    talking to a user in the dedicated message window and then decide
    to open a query to them, this copies the conversation you've had
    so far from the dedicated message window to the query window.
113.Can now specify a negative index in token identifiers, eg.

    //echo $puttok(a b c d, e, -2, 32)  =  a b e d
    //echo $instok(a b c d, e, -2, 32)  =  a b c e d
    //echo $deltok(a b c d, -2, 32)     =  a b d

114.$len() now returns 0 if passed an empty value.
115.Added $base(N,inbase,outbase,zeropad,precision) to convert number
    N from inbase to outbase. The last two parameters are optional.
116.Added $bfind(&binvar, N, M), searches a &binvar for a matching
    value, starting from position N. M can be a character value, ie.
    0 to 255, or text. The search is case-insensitive.

    $bfind(&test, 1, mirc)     finds "mirc" starting from pos 1
    $bfind(&test, 5, 32)       finds char 32 (a space) from pos 5
    $bfind(&test, 1, 87 65 86) finds WAV from pos 1

    You can use $bfind().text to force a text search if the search
    text is a number.
117.Sockets now have the "keep alive" setting turned on which should
    help keep a connection alive over extended periods.
118.Ctcp messages are now time-stamped.
119.$date now returns the full four-digit year. $ctime now also assumes
    the year 2000 if you specify a year <= 38.
120.$menu now works in mouse events in menu {} definitions.
121.Added "hide ping? pong!" option to IRC dialog.
122.Windows can now have their own timestamp setting independent of the
    global timestamp setting in the IRC/Messages dialog.

    You can now use /timestamp on|off|default, where default uses the
    global setting.

    You can also set the timestamp format using /timestamp -f [format].

123.Hotlinks now work on Tab-key nicknames that have messaged you in
    the message window.
124.Fixed bug in Display/Windows dialog when changing the MDI/desktop
    setting for windows.
125.Added $dialog().active property, returns $true if dialog is the
    active window, $false otherwise.
126.Added $longfn(), returns LFN version of a short filename, works
    only in 32bit mIRC.
127.Added /bcopy [-zc] <&binvar> <N> <&binvar> <S> <M>

    This copies M bytes from position S in the second &binvar to
    the first &binvar at position N. This can also be used to copy
    overlapping parts of a &binvar to itself. If M = -1, all of
    the bytes from position S onwards are copied.

    If you specify the -z switch, the bytes in the source &binvar
    that were copied are zero-filled after the copy.

    If you specify the -c switch, the first &binvar is chopped to
    length N + M.

    Also added /bunset <&binvar> ... <&binvar> command to unset the
    specified list of &binvars.

128.Fixed bug with /did -i adding CRLF when inserting into a single
    line editbox.
129.Fixed bug in /dccserver command.
130.Can now use $mid() without specifying the third parameter.
131.Added $appstate, returns minimized, maximized, normal, hidden,
    or tray, to indicate state of mIRC window.
132.Function keys in the message window work all the time now.
133.Made a change to the way $portfree() works.
134.If you try to use DCC Send/Chat/Fserve while they are locked
    in the lock dialog, you now see a lock message.

23/09/1999 - mIRC v5.61

Changes:
1.Fixed lock dialog password bug.
2.Improved support for IRCX servers:

  Added property $nick().owner, isowner if comparison, and "q"
  property to $nick(#,N,aohvrq,aohvrq) where "q" is for owners.

  Added on OWNER/DEOWNER events, work the same as on OP/DEOP,
  and $mode().owner/deowner properties.

  mIRC also now automatically sends /ircx to the IRCX server the
  moment it connects.

  If you have a large notify list, the notify list will now work
  on IRCX servers, a maximum of 30 nicknames at a time are sent
  in the ISON request.

  The "raw" event can now trap all events that mIRC doesn't
  internally recognize, so IRCX events can be processed, eg.:

  raw prop:*:echo 4 PROP: $nick $address $event $1-

  The DATA event from microsoft chat clients is now hidden, and
  any privmsgs of the format :(#G2<:E:10M1) or :(#G810E21:RM1)
  are trimmed to the text after this token. This is only done
  on IRCX servers.

  mIRC now sees the CREATE event, interprets it as a JOIN, and
  also displays the KNOCK, EVENT, and WHISPER events.

  The PROP TOPIC event now updates the topic in a channel window
  titlebar.

  The +dhuwx channel modes are now displayed in the titlebar.

3.The text entered for the highlight words list no longer strips
  out extra spaces.
4.The RAW event can now handle unknown NAMED events, eg.:

  raw eventname:*:echo 4 $nick $address $event $1-

5.Limit channels section in Lock dialog now allows any length
  channel name to be entered.
6.Added "play flash sound N times" option in Highlight dialog.
7.Fixed /tokenize bug with non-space delimited tokens.
8.Rolling/unrolling windows now only works if you hold down the
  shift key when right-clicking on the window titlebar.
9.Added $lock(item/#chan/N) identifier, returns $true or $false if
  item is locked, where item can be: send, get, chat, fserve, run,
  dll, channels. You can also use $lock(N) where N returns the Nth
  channel in the limit channels list, or you can specify a channel
  name instead of N.
10.Added "show in channel: ctcps" switch to IRC dialog, to display
   ctcps sent to a channel in the channel window.
11.Extended $duration() to handle larger numbers.
12.mIRC intercepts Control-F4 to close desktop windows now.
13.Support for $parmN and *N will be removed next version.
14.Fixed invalid cps value at start of DCC get resume.
15.Fixed on PLAYEND bug.
16.Made change in /goto behavior and how it finds :goto points.
17.Sound messages are now time-stamped.
18.Fixed bug in $crc(), it's returning the correct standard 32bit
   CRC value now.
19.Added $dccignore, returns $true if ignore types in DCC folder
   dialog is on, otherwise $false.

   Also added $dccignore(N/filename), if N = 0, returns number of
   items in ignore types list, otherwise returns Nth item in list.
   If filename is specified, returns $true if it matches item in
   list, otherwise $false.

20.Fixed BURC codes being stripped from channel topic.
21./font, $width(), $height(), /drawtext, now allow you to specify
   a negative number for the font size, this matches the font size
   you'd see in the font dialog.
22.Fixed on INPUT not working with DCC chat/fserve.
23.Fixed memory bug in /drawsave.
24.Fixed bug in $read when using both -w and -l switches.
25.The Help menu in the menubar now lists .chm and .html files.
26.Can now specify "hsbar" horizontal scrollbar property for listbox
   and combobox in custom dialogs. To reset the width of the hsbar
   you can use /did -z after adding/deleting lines.
27.Extended $chat/$fserv/$send/$get, to $chat(nick,N), $fserv(nick,N),
   $send(nick,N) and $get(nick,N) for nicks with mutliple DCC sessions
   open. The old format of $xxx(nick/N) is still supported.

   Also extended /close -cfsg to allow you to specify Nth chat/fserv/
   send/get, eg. /close -s5 nick, would close the 5th send to nick.

28.$highlight now returns $true if highlighting is enabled, otherwise
   $false.

   Added $highlight(N/text) identifier, with properties .text, .colour,
   .sound, .flash, .message, .nicks. Returns Nth highlight line in
   highlight listbox, or if text is specified, returns the properties
   for the highlight line that matches text.

29.Fixed + prefix bug in $target identifier for /msg +#channel.
30.Added if (v1 isalnum) comparison to test if v1 is alphanumeric
   text.
31.Online timer and Idle time now remain valid even if you change
   your computer time.
32.Tooltips now pop up over incomplete switchbar button names.
33.Fixed gpf bug in colours dialog when pressing Ok button, and
   in /colour command.
34.Can now Control+Q to cycle through query windows. Cycled windows
   are minimized when you cycle out of them.
35.Ctcp sound now handles quoted LFNs, and you can specify a quoted
   LFN with the /sound command.
36.Made a change in the way mIRC submits /list *wildcard* on the new
   DALnet servers, the method mIRC was using before wasn't being
   recognized, so the entire channels list was being sent.
37.The Find dialog in the Editor now remembers past searches.
38.Fixed bug in /writeini and $readini relating to items prefixed
   with [, windows writes multiple items of the same name in this
   situation, mIRC changes the [ to ~ to prevent this.
39.Fixed local variables memory allocation bug.
40.Fixed bug with Control-K inserting text in a read-only editbox.
41.Added $dialog() .cw and .ch properties, return width and height of
   client area of dialog, ie. not including titlebar, borders, etc.
42.Added custom dialog {} item "option" with properties "dbu" and
   "pixels", allows you to specify whether the dialog uses dialog base
   units for measuring control sizes and dialog width/height.

   Using dialog base units ensures that your dialog will appear the
   same size for all users on any size display etc.

   Also added /dialog -bp switch, indicates that the width/height is
   in dialog based units or pixel units.

43.$fline() now strips BURC codes from the text before tying to
   find a match.
44./did -g no longer makes an icon visible if it was hidden before.
45.$did().visible now works properly for icons.
46.$did() on an icon now returns the index and filename of the icon.
47.Fixed bug in drag-drop onto channel nick listbox.
48.Fixed bug with "always get..." switches being turned off in
   some situations.
49.Improved hotlinks to recognize %#channels only on ircx servers,
   and !#channels only on ircnet servers.
50.Added event on 1:HOTLINK:wildtext:*/#/?/@/=:/commands, works
   slightly differently from normal events, eg.

   on ^1:HOTLINK:*help*:#:{
     if ($1 == helpme) return
     halt
   }

   on 1:HOTLINK:*:*:echo clicked word $1 in line $hotline

   The first hotlink event is triggered when you move your mouse
   over a word that matches *help*. You can then check $1 to see if
   you want the hotlink hand to appear over the word. If you halt
   the event, no hand will appear. This allows you to filter a word
   based on context.

   The $hotline identifier returns the line which contained the
   hotlink trigger.

   Note: the script for this event should be as small and as fast
   as possible since it triggers each time the mouse is moved over
   a word matching *help*

   The second hotlink event is triggered when you double-click on
   a word which has been filtered through the first hotlink event.

51.mIRC now expands tab characters in text in custom @windows.
52./window -c now works with the Link list window.
53.Fixed tab key nickname bug in query windows.
54.The procedure in the DLL being called by /dll and $dll() must now
   be of the form:

   int __declspec(dllexport) __stdcall proc(HWND, HWND, char *,
   char *, BOOL, BOOL);

55.You can set the tabstops for tab-delimited text in a custom
   @window using /window -t <name> T1 T2 ... Tn
56.Fixed bug in urls list "Send To" option.
57.Fixed DCC Send dialog gpf bug.
58.The 32bit mIRC under win95/98/NT/etc. now uses the new win95 file
   dialogs.
59.Fixed gpf bug relating to placing more than one closing brace } on
   one line in a menu definition.
60.Fixed shift+right-click rollup/down not working with tool @windows.
61.Fixed gpf bug in custom dialogs when holding down spacebar over a
   button and pressing a cursor key.
62.Added "search all" switch to find text dialog in editor.
63.Can now /clear =nick for DCC chats.
64.Using a new random number generator which returns unsigned long
   values, previous generator was returning int values.
65.Added ability to customize time-stamp in options/messages dialog.
66.Lock messages for items locked in the lock dialog are now more
   informative, eg. when trying to join a locked out channel, etc.
67.Fixed /var bug which may have caused a gpf if /var was used
   incorrectly.
68.Fixed $initopic() to handle section names containing [] chars
   which mIRC replaced with ~ chars to prevent INI problems.
69.Added binary operators, $and(a,b), $or(a,b), $xor(a,b), $not(a),
   $biton(a,n), $bitoff(a,n), $isbit(a,n).
70.$window(name) can now reference all windows.
71.Added support for tab control in custom dialogs, example:

   dialog test {
     title "mIRC"
     size -1 -1 110 100
     option dbu

     tab "m", 1, 5 5 100 90
     tab "I", 2
     tab "R", 3
     tab "C", 4

     button  "m is for ... ;)", 11, 30 50 50 24, ok tab 1
     button  "I is for Internet", 12, 30 50 50 24, tab 2
     button  "R is for Relay", 13, 30 50 50 24, tab 3
     button  "C is for Chat", 14, 30 50 50 24, tab 4
   }

   In the above example, I assigned button controls to specific
   tabs, so mIRC handles the showing/hiding of them.

   Can use /did -fu to set the focus on a specific tab, and /did -vh
   to show/hide the control.

   Added $dialog(name) .focus, returns the id of the control (not
   specifically for tabs, general use) that currently has focus,
   and .tab, returns the id of the tab that is currently selected.

   Only one tab control can be defined in a dialog.

72.Fixed $disk().free value for 32bit mIRC.
73.mIRC now also displays vLMN channel modes in channel titlebar.
74.Added $timer().secs property, returns number of seconds left till
   timer is triggered.
75.Added $isupper(text) $islower(text) identifiers, return $true or
   $false depending on whether text is all upper/lower case.
76.Improved Tab key nick completion in dedicated Message Window.
77.Fixed custom dialog position being reset when minimizing and
   restoring the main mIRC window to/from an icon.
78.Added /echo -bf switches, apply the beep/flash settings in the
   window that you're /echoing to.
79.Fixed bug in mIRC tray icon under NT/2000.
80.Fixed gpf bug in on SENDFAIL/GETFAIL if you /closed the send/get
   window in the event itself.
81.$0 now returns the number of space-delimited tokens in $1-.
82.Added $ord(N) identifier, appends st, nd, th as appropriate to
   the number N.
83.Added right-click popup menus to DCC Send/Get windows for extra
   features.
84.Fixed /loadbuf not closing file in some situations.
85.Changed parsing method for $cr, $lf, and $cb so that you can
   create your own identifiers beginning with these letters. Also
   changed for: $false $inmidi $inwave $null $online $ticks
                $titlebar $true $version 
86.The ignore list can now be cleared with /ignore -r.
87.Can now /drawrect -e for an empty circle, and /drawrect -ef to
   draw a filled circle.
88.The routine that displays the modes in the channel titlebar now
   displays any channel mode that the server sends, sorts the modes
   alphabetically, except for modes +lk which it adds at the end.
89.Added "check if Service name in use at startup" in Options dialog
   DDE section, prevents mIRC from using a DDE name if another mIRC
   is using it.
90.Added $sock().to returns number of seconds socket has been open.
91.Halting on NOTICE event now prevents the default sounds for that
   event from playing.
92./onotice and /omsg will now use @#channel format, and /amsg and
   /ame will send one privmsg per channel instead of using privmsg
   #chan1,#chan2,etc., on efnet hybrid-6.
93.Added /dialog -r switch, to center a custom dialog.

03/06/1999 - mIRC v5.6

Changes:
1.Fixed on midiend being triggered when you try to play a midi while
  one is already playing.
2.Fixed /window -g not working on hidden windows.
3.Fixed popup menu - separator bug.
4.Fixed on servermode/usermode events.
5.Fixed bug with Ctrl-Shift-Home shifting display text when trying to
  highlight text in editbox.
6.CTCPs sent to a channel are now displayed in the status window, not
  in the channel window.
7.Fixed wave sounds not playing properly if a wave sound was currently
  being played.
8.Fixed not being able to Control-K in a combo editbox.
9.Fixed $mask() bug.
10.Long lines in the /stats reply are now wrapped.
11.Fixed /flash not resetting tray icon.
12.$isfile/isdir/exists now return $false if provided with a
   $null value.
13.$chr(26) EOF is now stripped from lines written to log files.
14.Removed backward-compatible support for the old format of $left,
   $mid, $nick, $right, $snick, $str, where N was specified first.
15.Extended $nick() identifier to $nick(#,N,aohvr,aohvr), to replace
   all of the other $opnick/$nopnick/etc. identifiers.

   Both aohvr parameters are optional. The first specifies which
   nicks you'd like included, and the second specifies the nicks
   you'd like excluded.

   a = all, o = ops, h = helper, v = voiced, r = regular

   Note: the old identifiers are still supported for now.

16.Your away status is now shown in the Status window titlebar.
17.Fixed Channel topic "set by" message being displayed in channel
   when "show topic in channel" was turned off.
18.Fixed URL hotlink bug when over nicknames beginning with non-
   alphabetic characters which matched another nickname on the
   channel.
19.Fixed bug in /background command, wasn't freeing resources
   properly.
20.Added $dccport identifier for DCC server port.
21.Added /echo -q switch which makes /echo not display any text if
   it is in an alias that was called with the . prefix.
22.Fixed bug when two simultaneous DCC chats by two users resulted in
   an extra DCC chat window that connected to a non-existent socket.
23.Extended switches for /load and /reload to allow -rsN where N is
   the script position of the script being loaded. This allows you
   to order/re-order a script.
24.$event now returns "ctcp" for a ctcp event.
25.on input now requires the <*#?=!@> field, and any window name can
   be specified now.
26.Extended on open event when it is triggered by a new query window
   opening:

   on 1:open:?:<wildcard text>:commands

   Where the wildcard text will match the message that the user
   is sending to you, causing a new query window to open. This allows
   you to halt the window opening based on the message.

27.On startup, mIRC no longer checks to see if another application is
   using its DDE Service name, this seems to cause problems. This
   means that if another app is using the mIRC DDE Service name when
   you run mIRC, the new mIRC will take over the DDE service name.
28.The date logfile names option now uses the full 4-digit year.
29.Fixed /iline bug.
30.When using /window ... /command, the contents of the @window
   editbox are not reset unless the /command is different from the
   previous /command.
31.Added on PING event, allows you to hide the ping server message.
32.The line "Session Time:" is now output to log files at midnight as
   marker for log files that are open for a long time.
33.Fixed /window -w switchbar buttons display bug.
34.Extended /window -kN switch, where 0 = hide prefix, and 1 = show
   prefix.
35.Fixed bug in /dde CONNECT topic processing.
36.Fixed bug in $did() which sometimes didn't return the text in
   an editbox.
37.Fixed on close event, ^ was triggering in the wrong order.
38.Desktop windows with the "flash" option turned on now have their
   own window icons flashed.
39.Added $crc(filename) identifier, returns 32bit CRC.
40.Added "Track Urls" switch to System menu in Channel/Query windows,
   auto-opens websites as they are mentioned in a window.
41.Added /loadbuf -ttopic switch, loads text in the [topic] section
   in a text file.
42.Added /findtext [-n] <text> command, searches active window for
   the specified text (same as Control-F).
43.For $readini /writeini /remini, can now specify multi-word topics
   in "quotes".
44.Added $initopic(filename,N/topic) identifier, returns [topic]
   name/Nth position in an ini/text file.
45.Can now specify multiple id numbers with one /did command, separated
   by commas, eg. /did -b test 2,12,14,16
46.Added Popup menu to DCC Options toolbar button.
47.Fixed /dde and $dde not freeing memory bug.
48.Added $dde -dN switch, where N is the number of seconds that $dde
   will wait for a reply.
49.Extended $strip(text,burc) where burc specifies the codes you want
   stripped from text.
50.Added $isid identifier, returns $true if an alias was called as an
   identifier, otherwise $false.
51.Added "ignore file types" option in DCC Options dialog which ignores
   any DCC Sends which match the specified filenames/types.
52.Right-clicking on a window titlebar now rolls-it-up, and unrolls it
   alternately.
53.Extended /loadbuf and /filter to work with custom dialog controls.

   /loadbuf -o [dialog id] <filename>
   /filter -io [dialog id] [dialog id] <matchtext>

   Where -i indicates that the input is a dialog and -o indicates
   the ouput is a dialog.
54.Fixed $ignore(address) bug.
55.Added $replacecs() and $removecs() for case-sensitive versions
   of these identifiers.
56.Added on PLAYEND event, triggers when a /play has finished playing
   all queued files.
57.Now allows you to specify up to 9999 for the max number of users
   in the list channels dialog.
58.Can now use $snick(#channel) without the N parameter to return the
   list of all selected nicks on #channel.
59.The channels list window popup menu now allows you to stop listing
   channels in mid-list when on DALnet servers.
60./unset <wildcard> now displays only the number of vars unset.
61./auser and /guser now allow you to specify information which is
   stored after the users level:address in the user list.

   /auser [-a] <levels> <nick|address> [info]
   /guser [-a] <levels> <nick> [type] [info]

   You can also use the /iuser command to set/remove info:

   /iuser <nick|address> [info]

   Also added new .info property to $ulist() to access this line.

62.Can now use /dialog command from inside a remote script event.
63.If you run mIRC while not connected, and the connect dialog pops
   up, if the local ip resolves to 127.0.0.1 mIRC will re-lookup the
   address once connected to the server.
64.Can now specify -1 for the [numbytes] parameter in /bwrite to
   write the whole of &binvar to the file.
65.Added new "Lock" section in Options dialog, allows you to lock
   mIRC, disable various features, etc.

   If you hold down the Control key when you minimize mIRC, it will
   ask you for the password when you try to restore the window.

   If you try to Control-minimize with no password set, it asks for
   a temporary password.

66.Added DLL support, allows you to send and receive info from a DLL
   designed to work with mIRC.

     /dll <name.dll> <procname> [data]
     $dll(name.dll, procname, data)

   These open the named DLL, call the procedure in the DLL, and send it
   the specified data.

   The procedure in the DLL being called must be of the form:

     int FAR PASCAL *procname(HWND mWnd, HWND aWnd, char far *data,
     char far *parms, BOOL show, BOOL nopause)

   mWnd is the handle to the main mIRC window.

   aWnd is the handle of the window in which the command is being
   issued, this might not be the currently active window if the
   command is being called by a remote script.

   data is the information that you wish to send to the DLL. On
   return, the DLL can fill this variable with the command it
   wants mIRC to perform if any.

   parms is filled by the DLL on return with parameters that it
   wants mIRC to use when performing the command that it returns
   in the data variable.

   The data and parms variables can each hold 900 chars maximum.

   show is FALSE if the . prefix was specified to make the command
   quiet, or TRUE otherwise.

   nopause is TRUE if mIRC is in a critical routine and the DLL must
   not do anything that pauses processing in mIRC, eg. the DLL should
   not pop up a dialog. Otherwise nopause is FALSE.

   The DLL can return an integer to indicate what it wants mIRC to do:

     0 means that mIRC should /halt processing

     1 means that mIRC should continue processing

     2 means that it has filled the data variable with a command which
       it wants mIRC to perform, and has filled parms with the parameters
       to use, if any, when performing the command.

     3 means that the DLL has filled the data variable with the result
       that $dll() as an identifier should return.

   The 32bit mIRC can only call 32bit DLLs, and the 16bit mIRC can only
   call 16bit DLLs.

67.Added event on RAWMODE, triggers when mode change is made on one or
   more users on a channel, you can use $1- to parse the raw mode change
   yourself.

   on 1:RAWMODE:#mirc:/echo $nick set $chan mode to $1-

   Also added $mode(N).op/deop/ban/unban/voice/devoice/help/dehelp
   which can be used in mode change events to list the nicks affected
   by the mode change.

   eg. $mode(0).op returns the number of opped nicks
       $mode(1).op lists first opped nick

   Added $modefirst and $modelast identifiers, return $true or $false
   depending on whether the event is the first or last to trigger.

68.Custom identifiers now pass parameters separated by commas correctly,
   ie. $test(a, b c, d) will result in $1 = a, $2 = b c, $3 = d

   Also added /tokenize <C> <text> command, this fills $1 $2... $N
   identifiers with tokens separated by character C in text, eg. if
   you used /tokenize 32 $1- in the above $test(a, b c, d) example,
   this would make $1 = a, $2 = b, $3 = c, $4 = d.
69.Fixed bug in $read returning $null for lines containing only one
   character.
70.Fixed /sockread -f bug when used with %vars.
71.Trailing menu separators are now removed from menus.
72.Changed /flash method, displays flash message longer, also added
   /flash -rN switch, repeats flash only N times.
73.Fixed bug relating to query windows MDI/desktop mode.
74.Fixed popup menu separator bug.
75.Extended $right()/$left(), you can now specify a negative value to
   return all but N characters.
76.Added /echo -l switch, applies the "highlight" settings in the
   options dialog to the line that's displayed.
77.Improved message highlight feature in options dialog, now allows
   individual highlight matches each with its own settings.

   For match words you can now specify a word, an identifier or
   variable, or wildcard text.

78.Fixed $snick() returning $null when N = 0 in some cases.
79.Increased custom dialog controls maximum from 250 to 500.
80.Added $did() .visible and .enabled properties, return $true or
   $false.
81.Added /dialog -v switch, makes dialog the active window.
82.Fixed error reporting bug for invalid dialog tables.
83.Added $menu identifier, returns menu name, eg.

   menu nicklist,channel {
     $iif($menu == nicklist,...):{}
     $iif($menu == channel,...):{}
   }

84.Extended $deltok(text,N,C), can now specify N1-N2 a range of
   tokens to delete.
85.Added /query -n switch to open query window minimized.
86.Word completion with Tab Key now works for:

   1) nickname in a query window, 2) nicknames in notify list
   when in status window, and 3) #channel names in your channels
   folder when in any window.

87.Hotlink now won't display hand over an address that contains !
   character.
88.Added $auto $ignore $protect identifiers, return $true or $false
   if /auto /ignore /protect is on or off.
89.Added $abook(nick,N) identifier, with properties, .nick .info
   .email .website .picture .noteN to return address book info.

   Allowed formats $abook(nick) $abook(N) $abook(nick,N) where
   nick can also be a wildcard.

90.Extended /filter command, format is now:

   /filter [-sgdfwxnprcteu] [n-n2] [C S] <infile> <outfile> <matchtext>

   -c = clear output window/file before writing results to it

   -t = sort output based on column C using character S as the
        columns separator, -e = descending, -u = numeric sort.

   Also, if the input and output are the same window/file, mIRC
   will process the request correctly.

91.Toggling MDI/desktop window now keeps editbox contents.
92.Added $disk(C) .type .free .label, you can test if a hard-disk
   exists or is accessible with $disk(C), returns $true/$false.
93.Fixed DCC Send freezing bug.
94.If the switchbar "sort tabs" switch is on, DCC sends/gets are
   sorted in the order in which they were started.
95.Added support for !channels for IRCnet. mIRC only enables this
   on IRC servers with >= 2.10 in server numeric 004.

   Note, important consequence: when mIRC is on IRCnet >= 2.10,
   it internally recognizes ! as a channel prefix. This may
   results in script/etc. problems where ! is used to identify
   a fileserver session.

96.Added support for IRCX %#channels, and for owner .nicks in
   channel nick listbox, as well as /mode +q. mIRC also does
   /listx on IRCX servers by default now and reads numerics
   811, 812, 816, and 817 for the channels list. mIRC recognizes
   IRCX servers by seeing a >= 5.5 in the server numeric 004.

   Note, important consequence: when mIRC is on IRCX >= 5.5,
   it internally recognizes % as a channel prefix.  Since % is
   used as a variable prefix in scripts/aliases/etc. in mIRC,
   this may result in script/etc. problems.

97.Now shows "you're not channel operator" server message in
   channel window.
98.Can now use $(vars/identifiers) in remote event match sections
   to evaluate any combination of vars/identifiers/text, eg.

   on 1:TEXT:$(*hello $me $+ *):?:echo hello back!

99.Added support for local variables by using the /var command:

   var %x = 1, %y, %z = $me

   Local variables can only be used in the alias in which they
   were created and are destroyed when the alias terminates.

100.You can no longer unset a variable by using /set with no
    value, you must use /unset.
101.Fixed /nick gpf bug when specifying very long nicknames.
102.Extended /bset command:

    /bset -t <&binvar> <bytepos> <asciivalue> [<asciivalue> ...]

    The -t switch indicates that it should treat the values as
    plain text and copy them directly into the &binvar.

    Also added N2 range parameter to $bvar(&binvar,N[-N2]), and
    a .text property which returns plain text up to the first
    zero character.

    Also added /breplace command:

    /breplace <&binvar> <oldvalue> <newvalue> [<oldvalue> ...]

103.Fixed $mask() ip address related bug.
104.Added option in General dialog, right-clicking mouse button on
    a line in a listbox can now auto-select it.
105.Added Merge button in logging dialog, merges log files based on
    the file date.
106.$notify(nick) now returns Nth position in the notify list.
107.Can now force a permanent scrollbar in a custom dialog listbox
    by using "vsbar" property.
108.Fixed /sound not being time-stamped, as well as a few other
    commands.
109.Fixed /write -d bug, was deleting empty lines.
110.When specifying the -swl switches in /write and $read, the text
    or number can be specified in the next parameter, doesn't need to
    be appended to the switch. eg. $read -l 5 filename, or
    /write -w *wildcard* filename text

19/02/1999 - mIRC v5.51

Changes:
1.Fixed /dcc send not centering DCC send dialog over active window.
2.Fixed /help bug.
3.Corrected on dialog description in help file, should have been
  on 1:dialog:etc.
4.Improved handling of channels/nicknames in hotlinks.
5.Fixed Menubar gpf bug. Now also handles the first menu item in the
  menubar definition more intelligently, ie. if it's meant to be a
  submenu, or the title of menubar.
6./titlebar now also updates tray icon tooltip.
7.Fixed icon highlight bug when switchbar is turned off and a window
  is iconified.
8.Fixed query window position/size saving bug.
9.Fixed /ison resource string bug.
10.Fixed .ignore menu item in query popup menu definition.
11.Fixed notify icon highlighting too often.
12.Fixed fileserver string resources bug.
13.Fixed date log files bug in 32bit being turned on under win32s.
14.Fixed $isdir() and $isfile() bugs.
15.Fixed List channels dialog not centering over channels list window.
16.Fixed /amsg and /ame not being timestamped.
17.Watch support is now triggered by the WATCH= token in numeric 5,
   not specifically associated with DALnet servers. Also, mIRC will only
   request N WATCH nicks as indicated by WATCH=N, plus one extra nick to
   trigger the "Maximum size for WATCH-list is N entries" message from
   the server.
18.Fixed mIRC reseting the IRC server name after exiting the options
   dialog.
19.Fixed $? and other dialog identifiers not being performed when
   called from a /timer started in a remote event.
20.Pressing OK or Escape in custom dialogs now clicks the Ok or Cancel
   buttons respectively if there are any.
21.Fixed mouse related bug that was eating up resources.
22.Added Hotlinks on/off option in Options dialog General section.
23.Fixed /did -b bug moving focus to next control.
24.Fixed $calc() bug.
25.Fixed Editor not remembering last popup that was being edited after
   quitting and then running mIRC.
26.Extended Trim log files feature to allow greater log file sizes.
27.Corrected description of $pos() in help file.
28.Fixed a bug in the flood control method, was sometimes ordering
   lines sent to a user in the wrong order.
29.DCC Chat window now allows you to perform commands after the DCC
   session ends.
30.Corrected on open event description in help file.
31.Sorting the servers list now places non-group servers at end of list.
32.Added $dialog() properties x,y,w,h,title,modal,table,ok,cancel,result.
33.Added /dialog -ax switches; -ma creates a dialog and uses the currently
   active window as the parent, and -x closes a dialog without triggering
   any events.
34.Fixed bug with Beeping/Flashing settings not being remember for DCC
   chat windows.
35.Fixed checkboxes with "push" style only triggering sclick event when
   they were checked. Now also trigger when unchecked.
36.Fixed bug related to not ignoring a user if you have a query window
   open with them and their address matches an ignore address.
37.Fixed /map not being displayed on non-DALnet servers, the numerics
   conflict with the new support of the DALnet WATCH list.
38.Fixed bug in /dialog tables, if the x y w h were separated by extra
   spaces they were being misread.
39.mIRC now shows the server text for numeric 375 (Start of MOTD) instead
   of using it's own internal text.
40.Fixed drag-drop filenames being made lower-case.
41.Fixed shift-key behavior when minimizing mIRC to tray.
42.Added -3 and -4 values to $dialog(), -3 opens the dialog using the 
   current active mIRC window as the parent, and -4 opens the dialog using
   the current active mIRC dialog as the parent, if no dialog is open, it
   defaults to -3.
43.Fixed bug in $gmt, added $gmt(format) same as in $asctime().
44.Added /write -w<wildtext> switch which finds a line that contains the
   matching wildcard text. Also extended -sw switches so you can now specify
   multiple words enclosed in "" quotes.
45.Fixed bug in /write and $read -switch processing.
46.Fixed bug with Address Book not starting certain emailers properly.
47.Fixed mIRC creating a second query window if your script opened one
   itself during the on ^open event.
48.Fixed editbox buffer bug.
49.Fixed tree display bug in options dialog when using a large systen
   font.
50.Fixed /copy using mIRC as root dir when filename is prefixed with the
   \ root dir prefix.
51.Fixed "hide" style not applying to icons in a /dialog on creation.
52.Added /play -e switch, /echos out the text as it would be sent to the
   server.
53.DCC Chat editbox is no longer cleared when the connection is made.
54.Fixed not being able to enter Control-K etc. codes in Find dialog.
55.Fixed bug in /rmdir.
56.[removed]
57.Fixed bug in DCC server.
58.Fixed loading popup changing the popup view.
59./did no longer triggers dialog events when a control is modified.
60.Can now use /did -co switches together for a checkbox.
61.$calc() now treats $null values as zero.
62.$?, $dialog(), and /dialog now warn you if you try to use them from
   inside an event. You should use /timer to initiate them, and they
   will appear after the event ends.

   Note: /dialog was causing problems when called from an event, there
   was no way to get around this unfortunately due to the current script
   parser design.

63.Added /did -nm, -n to enable and -m to disable an editbox.
64.$replace() and $remove() now accept $null values.
65.Fixed /dialog -n not removing topmost setting.
66.Fixed /window -ou not updating system menu.
67.Fixed /timer -e bug.
68.Updating an existing users info from the Whois tab in the Address
   Book dialog no longer clears the notes for that user.
69.If your notify list is turned off, mIRC no longer interferes with
   the display of /watch.
70./run now accepts quoted filenames to handle LFNs.
71./splay no longer displays error messages if the . prefix is used.
72.Added custom dialog style 'size' for listboxes, forces the listbox
   to be sized to the vertical size you specify instead of being rounded
   to the nearest whole size for a listbox item.
73.Fixed /dialog -s sizing bug when used in dialog init event.
74.Can now use %variables in dialog table definitions for certain items:
   title, size, "text", id, and icon name and n index.
75.Fixed bug in processing of /whowas numeric reply resetting a users
   notify list status.
76.Fixed extraneous line highlight bug after a /sound in a DCC chat
   which is halted by an on chat event.
77.Fixed bug in "View Website" menu item in Channels list window popup
   menu turning URL to lowercase.
78.Fixed bug with Notify list sounds not being played if "only show
   notifies in notify window" switch was turned on.
79.If /whois is turned on for a user in the notify list, and show
   notifies in active window is on, the /whois will now also appear
   in the active window.
80.Fixed bug in timing of /timer hh:mm timer request.
81.Improved IP address checking routine to prevent it from matching
   a wildcard IP address with a named address.
82.Fixed /msg -s =nick bug.
83.Fixed bug in $ulist(*) wasn't returning all addresses.
84.Can now specify an "icon" in a dialog table without a filename, to
   allow you to set it later.
85.Added Timestamp Logs switch to logging options dialog, allows you to
   turn on time-stamping just for log files.
86.Fixed bug with . prefix in a menu definition, was confusing the
   popup menu parser in some situations.
87.Fixed /whois not being issued for users in notify list after the
   first notification.
88.Fixed email catcher bug.
89.Numeric 404 "can't send to channel" is now displayed in the channel
   window if it is open.
90.Can now use /window on =chat windows, and other windows by enclosing
   the window name in "quotes".
91.Added /window -gN switch to set/remove highlight for a window icon,
   where 0 = none, 1 = red, 2 = green.

08/01/1999 - mIRC v5.5

Changes:
1.Fixed /drawtext clipping bug.
2.Fixed Socks firewall support of DCC Sends/Chats.
3.Fixed $pos() bug.
4.Fixed /savebuf with no parameters gpf bug.
5.Fixed bug in $findfile(), $finddir(), /copy command, and the files list
  in the Logging tab of the Options dialog, for 32bit under win32s.
6.Added -t switch to $read, prevents mIRC from checking if the first line
  is a number, it treats it as plain text.
7.Fixed $mask() types 11 to 19 not removing ~ prefix from userid.
8.Revamped Options dialog, now uses treelist, provides more space to add
  new features clearly and cleanly.
9.Fixed on OPEN/CLOSE event processing bug.
10.Fixed on ACTION not triggering if query window wasn't already open.
11.Fixed font display bug which seemed to affect some systems.
12.Fixed /dcc fserve with no parameters gpfing.
13.Changed Nth returned value in $nvnick()/$nhnick()/$nopnick() when you
   specify a nickname.
14.$nopnick() now returns all nicks that aren't ops, $nhnick() returns all
   nicks that aren't helpers/voiced (excluding nicks that are ops), and
   $nvnick() returns all nicks that aren't voiced (excluding nicks that are
   ops or helpers).
15.Added $& identifier, allows you to break up a single line into multiple
   lines which are combined when the script is performed, so you can edit
   long commands more easily.:

   test {
     echo You can now split up long commands $&
     into several lines to make them easier to $&
     edit
   }

16.Your own messages and notices are now time-stamped if you have time-
   stamping turned on in a window.
17.Fix bug in $findfile()/$finddir() identifiers, file handles weren't
   being freed in some situations in the 32bit mIRC.
18.Added Nick List menu item to Channel Window System menu, allows you to
   position nick list to the right or left, or to turn it off.
19.The file dialog used for selecting pictures now displays a preview of
   the selected picture.
20.URL catcher now also catches https:// addresses.
21.Added extra memory checks in $+ and other areas of script processing to
   warn when concatenated strings are too long.
22.You can now double-click directly on URLs in windows to open a web browser.

   You can also hold down the shift-key and double-click on email addresses
   to open your email program. The shift-key is required because of the
   huge number of addresses on IRC which look like emails but aren't.

   If you're in a channel window and you move the mouse over text that is a
   nickname on that channel, you can double-click on it for the usual double-
   click behavior, or right-click on it to open the nickname list popup menu.
   If you single-click on the nickname, the cursor in the listbox is scrolled
   to that nickname.

   You can also double-click on a channel name to join it.

   If you move the mouse over text that is a nickname in your Notify list,
   right-clicking will pop up the notify popup menu.

23./ddeserver and /sound are now quiet when . prefixed.
24.Added "Sort" item to Channels List window popup menu, allows you to sort
   by channel name, number of users, or channel topics.
25.Using a faster sort routine for sorting the IRC servers list.
26.Made small changes to appearance/processing of Chat/Fserve windows.
27.DDE can now be turned off, and will also remember to turn on again if it
   failed to initiate previously.
28.Fixed /writeini bug locking file after showing "file too large" warning.
29.Implemented new indexing method for scripts.
30.Added $mircexe identifier, returns full path/name of mIRC exe file.
31.Fixed /window -c closing gpf bug, related to mouse events processing.
32.mIRC now recreates the download/logs/sounds directories if your INI file
   contains invalid directory names for them.
33.Changed the file/dir existence checking method, it was previously treating
   non-accessible files ie. no read/write/etc. allowed, as non-existent.
34.Control-F dialog in status/channel/etc. windows now allows you to enter
   up to 90 characters as search text.
35.Fixed script.ini renaming bug.
36.Added $network identifier, mIRC gets the name of the IRC network you are
   on from numeric 001, ie. "Welcome to the N Internet Relay Network", where
   N is the name of the network. If it can't find a network name (some IRC
   networks don't have this info), it uses the Group name of the server if
   it's in your IRC Servers list.

   The network name is used to select the correct filename in the List
   Channels dialog, eg. if you connect to a DALnet server, mIRC will now
   auto-select the channels list file called dalnet.txt.
37.Fixed /*line related gpf bug with invalid colour value.
38.Fixed .ial flag, is now reset when you turn IAL on/off.
39.Single/multi-line editbox now beeps if you enter a line that may be too
   long to be processed by the server.
40.Optimized switchbar dragging routine.
41.Fixed bug in /log command.
42.If you have a /query window open with someone, private messages from them
   won't be ignored even if their address matches an ignore address.
43.Now processes numeric 437 which is sent on some IRC networks when you try
   to rejoin a channel after a split and it doesn't allow you.
44.Removed Topic in channel option, now default.
45.Main window background picture is no longer resized when the MDI window
   scrollbars appear/disappear.
46.Added "Save as..." menu item to Custom Picture windows System menu, and
   the /drawsave <@window> <filename> command, which allow you to save the
   picture in a @window to a BMP file.
47.Fixed horizontal scrollbar width in custom windows which use a tabbed
   listbox.
48.Added /window -E switch, creates a custom window with a multi-line editbox.
49.Added Show Ctcps in active window switch.
50.Fixed bug relating to file dialogs, may have been causing mIRC to freeze
   in some situations.
51.Numeric 477 is now handled differently based on the IRC network you are
   connected to since it's used for conflicting purposes on different IRC
   networks.
52.Fixed custom window bug where it would trigger menu {} and mouse events
   even if the popup menu name wasn't specified.
53.Fixed bug in handling of :goto jump points in some situations.
54.When the switchbar is turned on, the Alt-N key combination now refers to
   the Nth window in the switchbar, any windows not shown in the switchbar
   are placed at the end of the Alt-N list.
55.Improved /timers to more precisely measure elapsed time. Also added
   /timer -c switch, makes mIRC "catch up" a timer by executing it more than
   once during one interval if the real-time interval isn't matching your
   requested interval. This happens often because timer messages can be
   delayed by a few milli-seconds each time they are triggered due to the
   OS being busy, and the number of milliseconds lost accumulates over time.
56.Added preview button in file dialogs for playing .wav files.
57.Fixed bug in $ulist().
58.Changed behavior of event "on chat/serve" with and without the ^ prefix
   to allow you to /halt the default behaviors of an fserve.
59.Fixed /log command not working with DCC Chat/Serv windows.
60.Added "lbclick" menu {} listbox event, triggers when a user clicks on an
   item, or selects an item using the cursor keys, in a @window listbox.

   menu {
     lbclick: echo 4 selection: $active $1
   }

61.Added -b switch to /sockwrite, allows you to specify the number of
   bytes to send.

   /sockwrite [-tnb] <name> [numbytes] <text|%var|&binvar>

   Added -n switch to /sockread, allows you to read a CRLF terminated
   line into a &binvar. If the incoming line does not contain a CRLF,
   no bytes will be read into &binvar, unless you specify the -f switch,
   which forces the read (same as when reading into %vars).

   /sockread [-fn] [numbytes] <%var|&binvar>

62.Added on notify/unotify to the haltable ^ events list.
63./write now doesn't append an LF character to the end of your line if
   it already ends in an LF character.
64.Fixed filename checking routine, was treating too many characters as
   invalid and replacing them with an underscore character.
65.Fixed freeze bug in bracketed identifiers containing certain $+
   combinations.
66.Added support for DALnet WATCH list. mIRC now uses this for its notify
   feature when on DALnet servers >= 4.6.3 since it's far more efficient.
   All mIRC does is submit a list of nicknames to the server, and the server
   then notifies mIRC whenever a user comes on or off the network.

   If you specify a full address (or wildcard address) eg. nick!id@host as
   a notify nickname, mIRC will match the address against the reply from
   the WATCH notifications. You can also specify a wildcard address.

   Also added Dalnet specific options in Notify dialog, only appear when
   connected to a DALnet server.

   On non-DALnet servers, mIRC still uses the old notify method which sends
   an ISON with your entire notify list every 40 seconds or so to get an
   update. This method ignores the address portion of your notify nickname
   if you specified one.

67.mIRC now converts ANSI colour codes in private and channel messages to
   mIRC color codes. Also added $ansi2mirc(text).
68.Fixed bug in $read -w switch, wasn't stripping off ending CRLF at end of
   line before doing match.

   Extended $read -w and -s switches so you can now specify multiple words
   enclosed in quotes.
   
   //echo $read -nw"*t public &" versions.txt

69.Added on ACTION and on OPEN to ^ events. on ACTION now behaves exactly
   the same way as on TEXT, including the way it triggers the on OPEN event
   if a Query window isn't already open.

   on ^OPEN is now triggered before a new Query window is created, allowing
   you to /halt it, and on OPEN (as a non ^ event) is triggered right after
   the window is opened. If you /halt on ^OPEN no on ACTION/TEXT events are
   triggered.
70.Fixed bug with switchbar dragging.
71.Extended $findfile() and $finddir() to accept a @window/command. The
   command is performed on every item that matches your request.

   You can also specify a search depth which limits the search to N
   directories deep.

   $findfile(dir, wildcard, N [, depth, @window | command])
   $finddir(dir, wildcard, N [, depth, @window | command])

   Both are optional. The old format is still handled.

72.IRC Server popup menu via the right-click on setup toolbar button now
   lists the top 12 IRC servers, and the top 4 IRC networks.
73.Fixed $nopath()/$nofile() changing filename to lower case.
74.Fixed bug with help file not found dialog popping up at odd times.
75.Currently selected Address Book tab is now remember across sessions,
   when opening and the Notify tab is selected, the Notify listbox gets
   the focus.
76.Moved MDI Options Dialog into New options dialog.
77.Added /writeini -n switch, makes mIRC write to the INI file even if
   it's greater than 64k since some users seem able to create INI files
   of several megabytes.
78.If several users in your notify list have the same associated sound file,
   and the notify list sees them at the same time, mIRC only plays the sound
   once instead of repeating it for each user.
79.If mIRC sees the word "throttled" in the Closing Link disconnect message,
   it waits 10 seconds before trying to connect to the same server again.
80.Added /window +elL switches, +e gives the window a 3D edge under win95,
   and +l makes the window a tool window which has a thin titlebar, +L
   does the same except the window doesn't appear in the taskbar and it
   can't be accessed via the Alt-Tab keys.
81.Added $rnick(#,N) identifier, returns regular (non-op/help/voice) nicks
   on a channel, and isreg if comparison.
82.Long Ctcp messages now wrap correctly in status window.
83.Added /tray -iN <filename> command, changes the mIRC Tray icon to the
   Nth icon in the specified file (which might be an .exe, .dll, or .ico).
84.Disconnect messages are now time-stamped.
85.Can now set/unset the default picture for channel/query/chat/fserve
   windows via the background popup menu. Also added /background -e switch
   to set a picture as the default.
86.Fixed notify sounds not being played in some situations.
87.If you double-click on the mIRC tray Icon and mIRC is the active window,
   it is now minimized.
88.The perform section is now performed before channels are auto-rejoined
   after a disconnect.
89.Added "leave" menu {} listbox event, triggers when the mouse is moved
   outside a picture @window.

   menu {
     leave: echo 4 mouse left $leftwin
   }

90.Added /dns -h switch, makes it treat parameter as a hostname.
91.Fixed timers not seeing local alias -l aliases if a script is /reloaded.
92.Actions now also show if the action was directed at @+% users.
93.Can now specify -1 for /window x,y,w,h parameters to make mIRC use
   default or existing values.
94.Fixed bug in /whois colour not being set properly.
95.Fixed bug with +modeless channel handling, mIRC was assuming that you
   could /msg @+%#channel to send a message to Op/Voice/Help users, but
   only /msg @#channel to send a message to Ops is supported (which is a
   good thing since the /msg +#channel would look the same as a normal
   message on a +modeless channel)
96.Positions of individual query/chat windows can now be saved.
97.Can now use wildcards in /timer -e switch to execute all timers which
   match the wildcard timer name.
98.Can now Control-F in URL dialog.
99.Added /window +d switch, creates a custom window with no border.
100.Can now save the main window position and make the main mIRC window
    stay on top of other windows via the main mIRC system menu.
101.Added $matchkey identifier, returns wildcard matchtext that was
    used in the matching remote event.
102.Fixed bug in display of Editor dialog on being opened.
103.Added /firewall command to allow changing of firewall settings.

    /firewall [-mN[+|-]d] [on|off] <server> <port> <userid> <password>

    -mN where N is 4 or 5 for Socks4 or Socks5 firewall
    +|-d where +d turns on DCCs through firewall, -d turns it off

104.Extended $window() to allow wildcard match, $window(@wildcard,N)
105.Address book now deletes picture associated with a nickname when
    you delete the nickname.
106.Added Date filenames option to Log files dialog, only appears in
    32bit under win95.
107.Added switches to /server to allow modification of servers.ini:

    /server -sar [server] [-p port] [-g group] [-w password] [-d description]

    -s sorts the servers list
    -a adds a server. If it exists, it is udpdated
    -r removes a server

    mIRC tries to find a match for either the server address or the
    description in the existing servers list. You can also specify "none"
    for -g -w and -d to clear the current setting.
108.Fixed /join -n switch not working if you specified several channels
    separated by commas.
109.Fixed $matchtok() making all text lower case.
110.Fixed bug in Find Text dialog in Editor dialog.
111.Added /window -k switch which removes the @ at sign from the name in
    the titlebar.
112.Fixed a gpf buf in /sockwrite relating to queuing of data.
113.Added UDP datagram support to sockets scripting. UDP is a connection-
    less protocol, ie. you can send information via UDP to other UDP
    addresses without needing to be connected to them first.

    UDP does NOT guarantee that any information you send will actually
    reach its destination. This is the way UDP works, it is not a
    reliable protocol. Also, UDP packets may not arrive in the same order
    as that in which they were sent.

    /sockudp [-bntk] <name> [port] [<ipaddress> <port> [numbytes] [data]]

    -bnt are the same as in /sockwrite.

    -k forces the socket to stay open, this allows it to listen for data
    that is sent to its port via UDP. If -k is not specified, the socket
    is opened, the information is sent to the specified ipaddress and
    port, and the socket is then closed.

    If you specify a socket <name> that doesn't exist, it is created. If
    it does exist, the existing socket is used to send the info.

    You can also specify the local port number that you wish to use, if
    it isn't specified, mIRC chooses one randomly.

     Note: If you specify a socket name and a port, and the socket name
     exists but is using a different port, mIRC will report an error since
     it assumes you want a socket with that specific port.

    <ipaddress> and <port> specify the destination address to which you
    want to send information. You can only use an IP address here.

    <data> is the information you want to send.

    The on UDPREAD event and the /sockread command can be used to read
    incoming info on a UDP socket.

    Also added $sock() .type property, returns UDP or TCP, and .saddr and
    .sport properties, return source address and port of last received UDP
    packet.

114.Added $isfile(filename) and $isdir(dirname) identifiers, return $true
    or $false.
115.Added /ajinvite [on | off] to turn auto-join on invite on or off.
116.Added $istok(text,token,C) returns $true or $false if token exists
    in text, and $numtok(text,C) returns number of tokens in text.
117.Added /colour <name> <index> which allows you to change the colour
    settings for items in the Colours dialog.
118.Added /mdi -act to arrange icons, and cascade/tile windows.
119.Added on KEYDOWN/KEYUP events, and $keyval and $keyrpt identifiers.

    on 1:KEYDOWN:@window:key,...:echo pressed key $keyval $keyrpt
    on 1:KEYUP:@window:key,...:echo released key $keyval

    Where @window is the custom window name, and key is a numeric key
    value, eg. spacebar = 32. You can specify a list of key values
    separated by commas, eg. for the cursor keys:

    on 1:KEYDOWN:@:37,48,39,40:echo pressed cursor key $keyval

    Note: these events will only work in custom @windows without an
    editbox and a listbox.

120.Can now load /background pictures for custom @windows.
121.Can now manipulate position/size of channel, private, etc. windows
    using the /window command.
122.Added /window -w switch which turns a @windows switchbar button on
    if it was previously turned off.
123.Added format specification to $asctime() $time() and $date().

    Year       yy      98
               yyyy    1998
    Month      m       1
               mm      01
               mmm     Jan
               mmmm    January
    Day        d       1
               dd      01
               ddd     Mon
               dddd    Monday
    Hours      h       5
               hh      05
               H       13
               HH      13
    Minutes    n       1
               nn      01
    Seconds    s       1
               ss      01
    AM/PM      t       a/p
               tt      am/pm
    Ordinal    oo      Add ordinal 1st,2nd,3rd,Nth if
                       appended to a number
    Timezone   z       +0
               zz      +0000

    $asctime(ctime,format)
    $time(ctime,format)
    $date(ctime,format)

    If only the format is specified, the current time is used.

124.Fixed freeze bug in $rand().
125.Added popup menus for channels folder, finger, chat, and notify
    toolbar buttons.
126.Fixed bug in * userlevel prefix in script events for matching any
    level user, was matching even if a user level matched another event.
127.mIRC will now only ask you once if you want to create a new sounds
    or logs folder.
128.Added $window().fontbold property, returns $true or $false.
129.Added Hide minimized desktop windows option to Windows dialog,
    removes a window's button from the taskbar when you minimize it,
    unless you're holding down the shift key at the time.
130.Added $gmt and $asctime without brackets.
131.Added -r"root directory" command line switch when running EXE,
    allows you to set the root mIRC directory.
132.Increased time-out for firewall connections from 60 seconds to
    180 seconds.
133.Moved all text to resources area.
134.Added $file(filename).size,.mtime identifier, .mtime returns a
    $ctime value indicating when the file was last modified.

    Note: $lof() is supported for now but will be removed in future.

135./timer command now knows when it is initated from inside a remote
    script event.
136.Fixed bug in tabbed dialogs, some controls weren't appearing in
    some situations.
137./filter no longer allows you to specify the same window for in & out.
138.Added Trim log files option which keeps log files below the max Kbytes
    limit that you specify. The log file is only trimmed when a window is
    opened. If it's greater than the max size allowed, it is  trimmed to
    60% of the max size allowed.
139.Fixed gpf/freeze bugs relating to [] brackets.
140./set -u0 now unsets a variable at the end of a script.
141.Added /copy -a switch to append to a file.
142./sockmark now allows storage up to the max. length of chars that mIRC
    usually handles for other lines.
143.Added -r switch to /filter, specifies the range of lines which you want
    to filter, /filter [-sgdfwxnpr] [n-n2] <infile> <outfile> <matchtext>

    Also add -lL switches, -l filters from the side-listbox in the first
    window, -L filters to the side-listbox in the second window.

144.Added custom dialog creation commands and identifiers.

    The /dialog command allows you to create a modeless dialog:

    /dialog -mdtsonkc name [table] [x y w h] [text]

    -m   = create a modeless dialog using 'table'
    -d   = open dialog on desktop
    -t   = set dialog title
    -s   = set dialog size/pos
    -o   = set dialog ontop of all windows
    -n   = unset ontop setting
    -k   = click ok button
    -c   = click cancel button

    You can create a dialog with the /dialog command by using:

      /dialog -m name table

    Where name is the name by which you will refer to the dialog,
    and table is the dialog table name. Dialogs created with the
    /dialog command are modeless, ie. they do not return a value
    and do not halt a script, and allow access to other mIRC
    windows at the same time. They can be kept open indefinitely.

    The $dialog() identifier allows you to create a modal dialog:

    %result = $dialog(name,table[,parent])

    name    = dialog name
    table   = name of the dialog table
    parent  = window name, or
              -1 desktop window
              -2 main mIRC window

    Dialogs created with $dialog() are modal, ie. they return a
    value, and halt the script and don't allow access to the parent
    window until the dialog is closed. These types of dialogs
    should only be displayed for immediate user input.

    You can also use the $dialog(name/N) identifier to list any
    open dialogs, where N returns the Nth open dialog. If N is zero,
    the total number of open dialogs is returned.

    You can use the dialog prefix to create a dialog table in
    a script using this format:

    dialog name {
      title   "text"
      size    x y w h

      text    "text", id, x y w h, style  (right, center)
      edit    "text", id, x y w h, style  (right, center, multi, pass, read, return, hsbar, vsbar, autohs, autovs)
      button  "text", id, x y w h, style  (default, ok, cancel)
      check   "text", id, x y w h, style  (left, push, 3state)
      radio   "text", id, x y w h, style  (left, push)
      box     "text", id, x y w h, style

      list    id, x y w h, style          (sort, extsel)
      combo   id, x y w h, style          (sort, edit, drop)

      icon    id, x y w h, filename, index
    }

    In addition to the styles shown in brackets for each type of
    control, you can also specify styles:

    disable  - to disable the control
    hide     - to hide the control
    group    - to identify the start of a group
    result   - to identify the control whose value will be used as
               the return value to the calling script when the dialog
               is closed by pressing the ok button.

    If you specify -1 for any of the x y w h values in the size
    setting for the dialog, a default setting is used. To make
    mIRC center the dialog in a window, specify x y as -1 -1. The
    size setting can be over-ridden in the "init" event by using
    /dialog name x y w h.

    Note: You must specify an ok and/or cancel button. When a user
          clicks the ok or cancel buttons, the dialog is closed. You
          can prevent the dialog from closing if a user clicks the
          ok button by using /halt.

    Clicking certain controls in the dialog triggers the on dialog
    script event:

    on dialog:name:event:id: {
      echo $dname $devent $did
    }

    Where name is the dialog name, id is the number of the control
    triggering the event, and event can be:

    init    = when dialog is about to be displayed, controls can be
              initialized in this event. id is zero.
    edit    = text in editbox changed
              text in editbox of combobox changed
    sclick  = single click in list/combo box
              check/uncheck of radio/check buttons
              click of a button
    dclick  = double click in list/combo box

    The /did command allows you to modify dialog controls by id
    number:

    /did -ftebvhcukradiog name id [n] [text | filename]

    -f   = set focus on id
    -t   = set id as default button

    -e   = enable id
    -b   = disable id
    -v   = make id visible
    -h   = hide id
    -c   = check checkbox/radiobutton list/combo line
    -u   = uncheck checkbox/radiobutton list/combo line
    -k   = works with -c and -u, keeps other listbox selections

    -r   = clear all text in id
    -a   = add line of text to end
    -d   = delete Nth line
    -i   = insert text at Nth line
    -o   = overwrite Nth line with text

    -g   = set a new icon/bmp to an icon control
           /dialog -g name id [n] filename

    Note: you can mark a 3state checkbox as indeterminate by using
          both -cu switches.

    You can refer to controls using the $did() dialog id identifier
    with the following formats and properties as appropriate to the
    control to which you are referring:

    $did(name,id)
    $did(name,id,N)

    Note: if used in a triggered event, "name" is optional.

    .text    = returns line or Nth line
               $did(id) is same as $did(id).text
    .len     = returns length of line or Nth line
    .lines   = returns number of lines
    .sel     = returns Line Number of Nth selected line
               if N is 0, returns number of selected lines
    .state   = returns 0 = off, 1 = on, and 2 = indeterminate
    .next    = returns id of next control in tab order
    .prev    = returns id of previous control in tab order

145.Added option in the Windows dialog to make the Editor dialog
    modeless ie. opens it as a desktop window, allowing editing of
    scripts while chatting etc.
146.$cb() should now process LF and/or CR delimited lines properly.
147.Made change to /unload command so that it will match the filename
    you specify with a loaded filename even if you don't provide a full
    path specification.
148.Fixed $*nick(#,nick/N) returning N = 0 for non-existent nicknames,
    now returns $null.
149.If you load/unload alias/popup/script files while the Editor dialog
    is open, the Editor now updates its current view accordingly.

24/07/1998 - mIRC v5.41

Changes:
1.Fixed win32s under win3.x display bug in 32bit mIRC.
2.Fixed bug with private messages text-wrap when using ^ events.
3.Can now use %variables or $identifiers in the Perform Highlight words.
4.Can now do /dcc send nickname <wildcardfilename>.
5.Fixed $sdir bug.
6.Fixed bug in auto-arrange/cascade/tile options.
7.Fixed SOCKS firewall support bugs.
8.Channel Central dialog now allows mode +h users on TS4 efnet to change
  the channel settings.
9./remove now tells you if you specified a non-existent file but doesn't
  halt processing.
10.Changed Channel central dialog behavior, no longer resets channel modes
   unless they've been changed.
11.Fixed bug in $calc() with very long strings.
12.Fixed bug in inactive DCC Chat windows, editbox allows you to copy text
   from it but entered text is not processed in any way.
13.$chan().ial now returns $true if the IAL is full, $false if it isn't, or
   $inwho if you sent a /who #channel to the server to fill the IAL and the
   IAL isn't full yet.
14.Improved winsock error checking.
15.Fixed bug in /goto command where it was incorrectly reporting a "not
   found" error instead of a "duplicate name" error in some situations where
   you had duplicate goto names in a script.
16.Fixed bug in the remote events in %variables in remote event definition
   not being processed correctly if it evaluated to just #.
17.Fixed /renwin bug allowing you to rename a @window to any name without
   the @ prefix.
18.Fixed $read bug when reading a line with only a space in it.
19.Fixed disappearing DCC windows bug.
20.Fixed bug with URL/Email catcher being turned off when using the Send
   To menu in the URL window popup menu.
21.Fixed bug with Status window not remembering MDI/desktop position.
22.Fixed editbox/listbox focusing bug.
23.Fixed BURC code stripping in IRC Switches not applying to channel topics.
24.Using the . prefix to hide /play command information now also hides the
   /msg command information when sending to a user/channel.
25.Fixed @window listbox background colour bug not being reset when using
   colour control codes in text.
26.Fixed editbox processing bug in custom @windows.
27.Fixed /ignore -x exclusion bug.
28.Fixed bug in on OPEN event, was preventing on TEXT/ACTION events from
   triggering if on OPEN was /halted.
29.Can now specify whether you want DCCs to go through the Socks Firewall
   or not.
30.Fixed /renwin bug, was halting scripts.
31.Fixed bug when processing $? in combination with $+ in some situations.
32.$findfile() and $finddir() in 32bit mIRC now maintain case of filenames.
33.Fixed bug with wave playing not working with certain sound drivers. Note
   that simple sound drivers eg. speaker driver, are very limited and don't
   support mIRC's queuing of sounds feature, etc.
34.Fixed /cline when colour not specified, sets to default colour.
35.Fixed ctcp event not processing wildcard ctcps, eg.

   ctcp 1:*ping*:echo $1-

36.Fixed DCC Send CTCP request not working with IRC clients that add an extra
   ID number to the CTCP message, mIRC v5.4 also uses this extra ID to identify
   DCC Send requests through a SOCKS firewall. If mIRC sees an ID but can't
   match it internally, it assumes it's not valid and processes the CTCP as a
   normal DCC Send request.
37.Improved handling of long filenames in commands: /dcc send, /unload, /mkdir,
   /loadbuf, /savebuf, /filter, and /window.
38.Fixed bug in /font command.
39.Extended various commands/identifiers/etc. that reference listboxes so that
   they can now process any number of selected lines.
40.Can now /clear -n with a picture window, where -n delays update of the display
   until you force an update (same as with other picture window commands).
41.Fixed bug in $iif(), remote identifiers in it where not being evaluated.
42.Added $inpoly(x,y,x1,y1,...,xN,yN) identifier which returns $true if x,y is
   inside the polygon made up of the specified points, otherwise $false.
43.Changed DCC server 150 and 151 replies, they now return "unavailable" and
   "rejected" instead of a nickname.
44.Added .dx and .dy properties to $window(), return the x and y position of
   a window relative to the desktop.
45.Changed $notify() so that it works with your whole notify list. Added
   .ison property, returns $true if user is on IRC, otherwise $false.
46.Fixed bug with status window receiving focus in certain situations.
47.Fixed bug in /write command when /writing to files that aren't on the same
   hard-disk as the mIRC exe file.
48.Fixed freezing bug in $dde, $read, and $readini when used within other
   identifiers in some situations.
49.The on DNS event is now triggered if you try to /dns a nickname that's not
   on IRC and the server replies with the "no such nickname" numeric.
50.Fixed bug in listbox windows eg. url/notify/channelslist/etc. when first
   opening, the background was first set to the main window background colour
   not the listbox colour, making the window flash.
51.Fixed bug in ip address having a space appended to it when looking up via
   the server method. Shouldn't have affected processing though.
52.Extended $mask() and all other mask-related commands/identifiers, so that
   you can now specify a type of 10 to 19 which correspond to masks 0 to 9,
   but instead of using a * wildcard to replace portions of an address, it
   uses ? wildcards to replace the numbers in the address.
53.Fixed bug in /window -h switch not setting window focus correctly.
54.Fixed /list command so that it works correctly with older DALnet ircds
   that don't support serverside filtering.
55.The value of $halted can now be checked in any event to see if a previous
   event /halted the default text. You can also prefix events with the new
   & prefix to prevent the event from triggering if $halted is true, eg.

   on &1:text:*:?:/echo this won't trigger if $halted is true

56.When mIRC joins a channel and issues a /mode to look up the channel modes,
   the channel creation time numeric is hidden if sent by the server.
57."Unable to connect to IRC server" message now also shows the actual winsock
   error message.
58./enable and /disable now accept wildcards.
59./loadbuf and /savebuf can now work with DCC =chat windows. Also added
   switches to /loadbuf:

   -cN specifies default text colour
   -e  evaluates lines
   -h  hides a line if -e is specified and it doesn't evaluate

60.Fixed /window -c closing gpf bug when using multiple /window opening
   and closing commands in the same script.
61.Added $isdde(name) identifier, returns $true if DDE name is in use.
62./background can now change background in DCC =chat windows.
63.Fixed bug in remote * event prefix.
64.Timestamp now shows double digits for the hour.
65.Time related identifiers/routines now return $null if a time value is
   specified that lies outside the values mIRC can handle.
66.Fixed /.copy showing a line separator incorrectly.
67.Fixed bug in Editor dialog, if you loaded a new script and then closed
   the dialog, the on load event in the script would only trigger if you
   were in the Remote tab of the dialog.
68.Added -l switch to /ignore [-lpcnitkx] command, specifying the -l switch
   now displays a list of the ignores which match the specified switches.
69.Fixed bug in Socks firewall handling of a DCC Send to an IP address ie.
   to a users DCC server.
70.Fixed /echo -a =chat bug.
71.Fixed switchbar display bug.
72.Fixed /drawtext -p switch background filling bug.
73.If the Channels folder dialog is open while connecting to a server,
   the Join/Names buttons are enabled on connection.
74.Fixed gpf bug in /cline when trying to use it on an empty window.
75.Extended $os identifier in the 32bit mIRC, it now replies differently
   depending on whether you're on 3.1, 3.1 win32s, 95, 98, and NT. The
   16bit is still limited to replying 3.1 or 95.
76.Added $ulist(address,level,N) identifier for referencing the Users list,
   (replaces $maddress() which is still supported for now).

   You can specify an address of * to match any address in the user list,
   or a wildcard address. If you don't specify a full address, it completes
   the address with wildcards.

   If you specify L, $ulist() will return matching addresses that contain
   the specified level.

   Note: L and N are optional, but if you specify only one number, mIRC
   assumes it is N, to maintain backward compatibility.
77.Changed $calc() evaluation method slightly, this may break existing
   scripts.
78.Fixed a few /finger and fingerserver related bugs.
79.Fixed /auto -r bug.

23/06/1998 - mIRC v5.4

Changes:
1.Fixed identd/finger/DCC server bug.
2.Fixed connect retry bug when server name can't be resolved.
3.Fixed bug with windows being displayed/hidden when switchbar
  is turned on/off.
4.Fixed /join -n bug when specifying a password.
5./load now only asks you once if you want to run the on start
  and on load sections when your script loads multiple files.
6.Added identd switch to turn identd on/off before/after connection.
7.Added identifier $isalias(name) returns $true/$false.
8./dns now returns a reply for each /dns that is issued even if you
  specified multiple identical addresses.
9.In addition to specifying -1 in $window() to refer to the desktop
  screen size, you can now also specify -2 for the main mIRC window,
  and -3 for internal MDI window where other windows are displayed.
10.Fixed focusing bug when clicking in a window.
11.Added /reload command, reloads the specified script without
   triggering the on start/load events.
12.Added $finddir(root,wildcard,N) works the same as $findfile()
   except it returns directory names.
13.Added Options section to Address Book.
14.Fixed Help menu bug when more than 30 items where listed in
   the menu.
15.Added support for numeric 477, tells you if you can't join
   a channel if channel only allows registered nicks.
16.Added /renwin <@old> <@new> [topic] command, changes the name
   of a custom window.
17./sockopen now triggers "on sockopen" if a connection fails
   immediately, instead of just halting the script with a connection
   error message.
18.Fixed /editbox command when using lines with CR/LF characters.
19.Can now handle DALnet @+target notices.
20.Small change in DCC Send routine which may have been causing a
   freeze in certain situations.
21.Fixed bug in action messages, may have been preventing action
   messages from being displayed sometimes.
22.Can now open the Channels Folder and Channels List dialogs when
   not connected to a server to edit/view them offline.
23.$chan now works in the on input event.
24.Fixed bug in Alt-1,2,3,etc. that was causing a gpf in certain
   situations.
25.Fixed display gpf bug which occurred when a window was resized
   to a width smaller than an indented line.
26.Made a small change to the way DDE messages are sent, should
   now work with more applications.
27.Fixed bug in Filserver, wasn't displaying the list of dirs or
   files correctly in certain cases.
28.Added switch -S to /window command. The small -s now sorts the
   main window (whether text or listbox), the large -S now sorts
   a listbox on the side.
29.Fixed gpf bug when the custom menubar popup menu is empty and
   a new item is added to it.
30.The TAB nick completion now works in custom windows.
31.Fixed /join -i bug.
32.Your nicknames, local info, and current irc server are now all
   updated in mirc.ini whenever they change.
33./filter no longer creates a file if there were no matching
   items to output to the file. It also fills the $filtered identifier
   with the number of matches found, if any.
34.A users nick and address are now stored in the log file at the
   start of the logging session for a query window.
35.Now supports serverside filtering of channels list on DALnet
   servers. This is done automatically whenever you retrieve a
   channels list, same as with Undernet servers. DALnet servers
   also supports server-side wildcard filtering.
36.Fixed /editbox -n switch.
37.If you try to connect to a server which resolves to multiple
   IP addresses eg. a round robin server, mIRC will now try each IP
   address until it gets a connection.
38.Colour 99 is now treated as a transparent colour, ie. it will match
   a users current background colour. The main purpose of this is to
   allow you to use numbers after a ctrl-k without a problem, eg.
   /echo ctrl+k5,9954  This would display the number 54.
39.Added $readn identifier to return the line number that matched a
   search for $read -s<text>.

   Also added $read -w<wildtext> switch which finds a line that
   contains the matching text.

   If you specify the -s or -w switches, you can also specify the
   -lN switch to specify which line to start searching from in the
   file, eg.:

   //echo $read -l100 -w*mirc* versions.txt

   Note: this will start the search *after* line 100. This allows
   you to use it with $readn easily.

40.Added -e switch to /dde command, makes /dde send the request as
   an XTYP_EXECUTE DDE message. This type of message does not require
   an item, so the format is:

   /dde -e service topic command

41.Fixed /rline bug.
42.Fixed bug relating to use of [ ] to evaluate items inside
   a bracketed identifier eg.

  //echo 1 $gettok( [ $readini -n mirc.ini mirc host ] ,1,58)

43.Fixed gpf bug when trying to resize a window that contains
   lines of text of which some are empty ie. contain no characters
   at all, was happening mainly when filling a custom window with
   lines from a text file eg. using /filter.

44.Added * as a new remote event prefix, matches the level of any
   user. This allows you to create events that will trigger for
   all users regardless of their access levels.

   on *:event:etc.
   ctcp *:event:etc.

45.Using new method to display icons in toolbar and switchbar, this
   should fix the disappearing toolbar problem some people have been
   experiencing.
46.Added .fname property to $group() identifier, to return filename,
   and the .name property to return the name of the group if you're
   looking up the Nth group.
47.Added /ban -r switch, this removes a ban of the specified type for
   nickname, eg. /ban -r nick 2
48.Url catcher now treats more characters as valid parts of a URL.
49.Fixed bug in $pos() identifier.
50.Added $ctime() identifier to compliment $ctime. You can specify
   the date and time in various formats in $ctime() to return the
   number of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970.

   //echo 1 $ctime(January 1 1970 00:00:00)
   //echo 1 $ctime(3rd August 1987 3:46pm)
   //echo 1 $ctime(21/4/72 1:30:37)
   //echo 1 $ctime(Wed 1998-3-27 21:16)

51.Modifed the way the inc/dec -uN switch works, added two new
   switches, -c and -z.

   -uN now only incs/decs the %var once and unsets it N seconds
   later.

   -c incs/decs %var once per second.

   -z decreases %var until it reaches zero and then unsets it.

   The -z switch also works with /set.

52.Fixed bug in /describe appearance in query windows.
53.Can now use $mouse outside of picture window events. Also added
   the following properties:

   .win     returns the windows name
   .mx/my   returns x,y position relative to mIRC main window
   .dx/dy   returns x,y position relative to desktop
54.Added .fname property to $isalias() identifier, which returns the
   filename inwhich the alias exists, and .alias property which returns
   the alias definition itself.
55.Added $ifmatch identifier, returns the first parameter of a matching if
   statement. eg. if (text isin some text) etc. then $ifmatch will return
   "text".
56.Added /showmirc -nrstx command, where:
     -n = minimize
     -r = restore
     -s = show
     -t = tray
     -x = maximize
57.Added -u switch to /window which removes the -ontop setting
   for a desktop window. Can also reset it again with -o.
58.If you specify a delay of 0 seconds in /timer, the command is now
   executed immediately after a script finishes.
59.Added $cb(N) identifier to return CRLF delimited lines from the
   clipboard. The property .len returns the length of the line, or
   if N is zero, it returns the total length of text in the clipboard.
60.Extended $timer() to handle both N and a Timer name as a parameter.
   Also now returns $null correctly if it can't find a match.
61.Extended $nick/opnick/nopnick/vnick/nvnick() to handle both N and
   a nickname. If a nickname is specified it returns the nicknames Nth
   position in the nicklist.
62.Fixed Window/Icon Flashing bug, wasn't triggering in certain situations.
63.Fixed gpf bug in fileserver time-out event.
64.Fixed /window sizing bug when first opening a very small window.
65.Added .ial property to $chan(), returns $true if the IAL contains the
   addresses of all users on the specified channel, otherwise $false.
66.The TAB key nick completion now works as an identifier/variable evaluator
   when placed over items that begin with $ or % or # (evaluates to current
   channel name).
67.Notify now displays on/off messages in more situations.
68.Can now specify N = 0 in $findtok() to return number of matching tokens.
69.Added $matchtok(Tokens,String,N,C) identifier, checks if any of the Tokens
   contain the text String. eg.

   $matchtok(one two three, e, 0, 32) returns 2
   $matchtok(one two three, e, 2, 32) returns three

   And $wildtok(Tokens,WildString,N,C) which does the same thing using
   wildcards:

   $wildtok(one two three, t*e, 0, 32) returns 1
   $wildtok(one two three, t*e, 1, 32) returns three

70.Added Remove menu item to notify list popup menu.
71.Made a change to /log command to make it handle the file .ext extension
   better with LFNs.
72.Moved notify section from Options dialog to Address Book. Also added
   Notify? and Address? buttons to connect Address and Notify sections.
73.You can now retrieve your basic System colours with $rgb() by specifying:
   face, shadow, hilight, frame, and text, which return the RGB value.
74.Pressing TAB key in an editbox no longer clears the editbox if it
   contains text. The editbox needs to be empty in order for TAB to fill
   in the "/msg nickname" text.
75.DCC Chat window editbox is no longer disabled on a disconnection.
76.Can now click on a number in the Colour index dialog to insert the number
   into the editbox.
77.Fixed $dde gpf if data being received is too long, now returns $error in
   this case.
78.Extended $replace() to handle multiple replace parameters, eg.

   $replace(String,n1,n2,m1,m2,...,t1,t2)

   And $remove() to handle multiple remove parameters, eg.

   $remove(String,n1,n2,n3,...)

79.Replaced channel window switching keyboard command from Control-Space
   to Control-N due to conflict with other applications.
80.Fixed minimized icons appearing in certain sitautions when switching
   windows via switchbar.
81.Speeded up text display slightly.
82.Added $hash(S,B) where S is a string, and B is the number of bits to
   use when calculating the hash number.
83.Can now specify a non-existent file in $file/dir/hfile/sdir dialogs.
84.Added /whois in active window switch. Displays whois results in the
   channel, query/chat, and custom windows if it is turned on and a /whois
   is issued inside one of these windows.

   Also added Whois text colour selection to Colours dialog.

85.Added -g switch to /clear and /filter to refer to finger window.
86.Added Background Picture option to System menu for Status, Channel, and
   Query/Chat windows. Allows you to select a background picture for the
   window, note that this significantly decreases the display speed of
   text in a window.

   Also added picture option to the mIRC background window, right-click
   on it to pop up a menu with options.

   Can also select a background picture for the toolbar, toolbar buttons,
   and switchbar, right-click to pop up a menu.

   You can use the following command to change the background picture
   settings and display method for windows:

   /background [-amsgdluhcfnrtpx] [window] [filename]

   -a = active window (window name not required)
   -m = main mIRC window
   -s = status window
   -g = finger window
   -d = dedicated query window

   -cfnrtp = center, fill, normal, stretch, tile, photo

   -l = toolbar
   -u = toolbar buttons
   -h = switchbar

   Toolbar buttons can use RGB Colour 192,192,192 for transparency, the
   BMP must be of the same form as that in mIRC resources.

   -x = no background picture

   Window name should only be specified if none of the window switches
   are specified. The filename does not need to be specified if you are
   only changing the display method.

87.Added $iif(C,T,F) where C is a conditional clause, and T is the result
   if the conditional is True, and F is the result if it's false, eg:

   echo $iif(1 == 2, yes, no)  returns "no"

   $iif returns F if the conditional returns zero, $false, or $null, for
   any other value $iif returns T.

   If you don't specify the F parameter, $iif returns a T value if the
   condition is true, and returns nothing if it's false.

   echo $iif(1 == 2, yes)  returns nothing

88.mIRC can now display longer channel topics in channels.
89.Added -p switch to /editbox, appends a space to the end of the text.
90.Added -t switch to /echo, prefixes line with a timestamp if a user has
   global time stamping on or timestamping is on for that window.
91.Integrated the notify settings into the Address book dialog.
92.You can now open a query window with the /query command while offline.
93.Fixed $duration() to handle floating point numbers.
94.Titlebars in windows now aren't updated if the new text is identical.
95.Made line sorting in text @windows case-insensitive.
96.Added -o switch to /copy command, overwrites file if it exists.
97.Can now use ! (not prefix) with & bitwise operator.
98.Added uclick event to mouse detection events.

   menu @test {
     uclick:echo Released mouse button
   }

99.The switchbar button for a query window is now updated when there is
   a nick change.
100.Added -h switch to /clear command, clears the command history for
    a window.
101.Switchbar can now also be displayed on the left and right sides of the
    mIRC window, you can drag it with the mouse to reposition it.
102.Fixed $server().port including password at end of ports.
103.Fixed problems with sounds not being heard when your system is set up
    to use the internal speaker driver for sound playback, note however
    that this means that events such as on waveend/midiend do not work
    now since the speaker driver doesn't support them.
104.Added /saveini command, updates all mIRC related INI files with the
    current info.
105.Added /ignore -x (exclude) switch. Basically this allows you to ignore
    messages from all people except your friends. For example:

    a!b@c.org,exclude   this excludes this address from being ignored
    *!*@*               this ignores all other addresses

106.Fixed bug in on chat/fserve events not filling $1 correctly.
107.Fixed bug with certain /if operators treating a $null value as plain
    text eg. if (n isin $null) would evaluate to true.
108.Fixed bug with $calc() not processing identifiers with properties.
109.Fixed on close event not triggering for fileserver.
110.Added Command option to DCC Get Directories dialog, allows a command
    to be performed when a file is received. The command will be performed
    if no application has been selected and the filename can be referred
    to in the command as identifier $1-.
111.Fixed /write not adding an extra LF to the last line in a file if it
    needs one before appending a new line to the end of the file.
112.Added Rejoin channels on connect switch to Options dialog, if turned on
    channel windows which are open are auto-rejoined when you reconnect to an
    IRC server.
113.Fixed custom sockets bug where last packet of a file being received was
    not received fully in some cases.
114.Added .font and .fontsize properties to $window().
115.Variables set to the value $null now evaluate to an empty string.
116.Control codes are now stripped from URLs/Emails caught by URL catcher.
117.Fixed bug in DNS resolving routine which may have caused certain
    problems in the situation where a DNS request failed immediately.
    Also fixed a bug where an invalid DNS reply may have caused a gpf.
118./dns -c now clears all queued DNS requests except the one currently
    in progress.
119.Added isincs for a case-sensitive version of isin comparison.
120.Added $fline(@,wildtext,N,T) searches a window for a line matching
    the wildcard text and returns the matching line number. If T is not
    zero, it acts on the side-listbox.
121.The on MODE event now triggers when you make a mode change. You can
    prevent it from triggering on your own mode change using the ! event
    prefix as usual.
122.Fixed /echo bug, can now specify switches with a DCC chat =nickname.
123.You can now prevent the default text for an event from being shown
    by using the ^ prefix in an event definition. This allows you to
    show your own custom event messages, eg.

    on ^1:JOIN:#:echo $chan Joins: $nick | halt

    This line is triggered by a JOIN event and shows your own custom join
    event message, /halt prevents the normal message from being shown.

    The ^ events don't replace your existing events, your normal events
    are independent and are still processed whether there is a ^ event in
    a script or not.

    Events that currently support ^ prefix: BAN, CHAT, DEHELP, DEOP, DEVOICE,
    HELP, INVITE, JOIN, KICK, MODE, NICK, NOTICE, OP, PART, TEXT, UNBAN,
    USERMODE, VOICE, QUIT, SERV, SERVERMODE, SNOTICE, TOPIC, WALLOPS.

    You can also halt the default text without halting a script by using
    the /haltdef command.

    The $halted identifier returns $true if /halt or /haltdef was used in
    a ^ prefixed event, and $false if it wasn't.

124.Added $shortfn(filename), returns short version of a long filename,
    only works in 32bit mIRC. In 16bit, returns same filename.
125.Can now /resetidle <seconds>.
126.Fixed bug in display of DCC transfer window.
127.Fixed bug in timezone calculation routine.
128.Fixed bug in /ignore.
129.Fixed gpf bug in on load/start events.
130.The /ignore and /auto commands now reformat the given nickname/address
    to a full address spec. if it isn't one already.
131.Fixed bug when switching dedicated query window to/from MDI/desktop mode.
132.Removed minimum window size restrictions.
133.Local info is now looked up using the Server method by default.
134.Fixed bug where first item in a listbox was selected when the listbox
    window was first opened.
135.Fixed $target for DCC chat/fserve windows.
136.Added Socks5 firewall support for connecting to an IRC server. mIRC
    passes the domain name to the Socks5 firewall instead of trying to 
    resolve it to an IP itself. mIRC still supports Socks4 however this
    doesn't support authentication or domain name resolution or listening
    for a connection.

    mIRC also supports an EXPERIMENTAL method for DCC Send/Chat through a
    SOCKS5 firewall. This will NOT work with older versions of mIRC or
    other IRC clients.

    mIRC uses a PASSIVE protocol to establish DCC connections when a client
    is behind a SOCKS5 firewall. The method will work with SOCKS5 firewalls
    that both:

      a) Support listening/binding to a port of Zero for an incoming
         connection.
      b) Assign outgoing connections an IP address that's the same as
         the SOCKS firewall IP address.


    The DCC Send/Chat CTCP messages are extended by adding an extra number
    to the end of the message which uniquely identifies the negotiation,
    and a port of Zero is specified to indicate that this is a passive
    connection request. All other fields are identical to a standard DCC
    Send/Chat message.


    DCC Chat Passive Protocol:

    Client A, initiating the DCC Chat, sends the passive connection request
    below to Client B. The port is set to zero, and the id number is a unique
    integer identifying the connection:

    DCC CHAT nickname address port id

    If Client A is behind a firewall, the address is the ip address of its
    SOCKS firewall.

    Client B receives the message and sets up a listening socket, and sends
    the IP address and port back to Client A, specifying the id number that
    identifies Client A's request:

    DCC CHAT nickname address port id

    If Client B is behind a SOCKS5 firewall, it requests a listening socket
    from the SOCKS5 firewall and specifies Client A's IP address as the
    binding address.

    Client A then proceeds to connect to this address to chat. If Client A
    is behind a SOCKS firewall, it sends a connection request to it.


    DCC Send Passive Protocol:

    Client A, initiating the DCC Send, sends the passive connection request
    below to Client B. The port is set to zero, and the id number is a unique
    integer identifying the connection:

    DCC SEND filename address port filesize id

    If Client A is behind a firewall, the address is the ip address of its
    SOCKS firewall.

    Client B receives the message and sets up a listening socket, and sends
    the IP address and port back to Client A, specifying the id number that
    identifies Client A's request:

    DCC SEND filename address port filesize id

    If Client B is behind a SOCKS5 firewall, it requests a listening socket
    from the SOCKS5 firewall and specifies Client A's IP address as the
    binding address.

    Client A then proceeds to connect to this address to begin the transfer.
    If Client A is behind a SOCKS firewall, it sends a connection request
    to it.

    Nb. The DCC Resume and Accept protocols in mIRC are also extended by
    adding the id number to the end of the CTCP message, but otherwise work
    in exactly the same way.

137.Fixed on input bug with chat/fserve windows. Can specify = for matching
    chat events and ! prefix for fserve events, same as on open/close.
138.Fixed bugs in $calc() identifier.
139.Changed the way tooltips are displayed, there is now a small delay
    before a tooltip appears.
140.Fixed bug in /if handling of multiple parameters, eg.:

    if (a b c == a b c) echo yes | else echo no

    This will only work if your /if is specified using () brackets around
    parameters, or {} around the commands following the /if, so that the
    conditional clause is fully specified.

141.Added support for certain Efnet TS4 features.

    mIRC will now process TS4s new mode +h for helper users on a channel,
    for nicknames prefixed with a %.

    Also added new script events and identifiers:

    on 1:HELP/DEHELP:#:echo I just helped/dehelped $hnick

    $hnick() and $nhnick(), same as $opnick()/etc.

    Also added a new /if comparison "ishelp".

    Extended $comchan() properties to: .op, .voice, .help

142.Can now select the background more easily in the Colours dialog.
143.Can now specify a named address when initiating a DCC Send/Chat/Fserve
    in the /dcc command or in the DCC Send/Chat dialogs.
144.Changed kick/part events routines so that the nickname that is parting
    or being kicked is only removed from the channels nickname list and the
    IAL *after* scripts are processed, allowing you to access these users
    settings.

    You can use the /updatenl command to force the nicknames list and IAL
    to update immediately during an on kick/part/quit script event.
145.Can now force a /sockread to read incoming characters into a %variable
    even if the incoming line does not contain a CRLF.

    /sockread -f %var

146.Extended $? input identifier, the dialog will expand vertically to
    accomodate longer questions, and if you use $?* then text will appear
    as ***** to prevent anyone seeing what you're typing.

    If you use $?! then a Yes/No dialog will appear without an editbox,
    it will return $true or $false depending on whether the user clicks on
    Yes or No respectively.

    You can make text appear on different lines by using $crlf identifier
    to separate lines, eg.

    //echo $?="For example: $crlf $+ This is on the 2nd line."

147.I changed the version checking method slightly to recognize NT 5.0.
148.Fixed bug with $().property processing getting confused by %variables
    with . in their name.
149.Added $crlf identifier, returns CRLF characters.
150.Added $sreq and $creq identifiers, return current /sreq and /creq settings
    for DCC Get/Chat respectively (return ask, auto, or ignore).
151.Fixed /drawtext command and $width() identifier so they now work with the
    same measurements correctly.

    If no clipping area is specified in /drawtext, the command should only
    affect the area around the text, whereas before it was affecting most
    of the window.

152.Added $height(text,font,size) returns height of text in pixels for the
    specified font and fontsize.
153.Aded /timer -e switch which executes the specified timer name immediately
    if it exists.
154.Fixed /copy changing filenames to lower case. This only works in the
    32bit mIRC, the 16bit is still limited. The original case of the filenames
    is now retained.
155.When saving the buffer of a query window, the users nickname and address
    are placed at the top of the buffer, if they are available.
156.Fixed bug in Editor dialog where aliases were getting overwritten by the
    variables section in certain situations.
157.You can now save a channel window position as maximized/minimized.
158.Added $os identifier, returns operating system version 95 or 3.x.
159.Fixed /sline bug changing the colour of a listbox item when all you wanted
    to do was select/deselect the line without changing it's colour.
160./splay no longer halts a script if the sound can't be found or played.
161.Fixed =$nick evaluating to just $nick when used outside of a remote
    event. It worked correctly in remote events though.
162.Fixed -sg switches in loadbuf/savebuf commands.
163.Fixed bug where server password was not being set correctly when retrying
    a connection if it failed/you were disconnected before.
164.Fixed bug with $script/$scriptdir not evaluating properly in some cases.
165.Fixed Channel central channel key handling, correctly unsets/sets a channel
    key now if you are changing an existing channel key.
166.Added a fix for undernet ircd behavior regarding channel keys. Here is how
    the new undernet ircd works now:

    If you join a channel with a key, the server will NOT send you the channel
    key to display in the channel window titlebar.

    If an Op changes the channel key while you are on the channel, the server
    will send you the channel key and mIRC will display it in the titlebar
    even if you *aren't* an Op.

    You can only retrieve the channel key after you have become an Op on the
    channel.

    If someone Ops you on a keyed channel and you don't have the channel key
    yet, mIRC sends a /mode #channel to retrieve it so it can display it in
    the channel window titlebar automatically.

    The undernet ircd now sends a +k without specifing the key in the above
    situation, so be aware that you can now have +k but no key. You should no
    longer assume that doing a /mode #channel will get you the full info on
    undernet servers. mIRC will show a +k without a key in the titlebar. 

    mIRC can no longer rejoin a keyed channel automatically in the above
    situation if a) you have "rejoin on kick" turned on, or b) you have
    "rejoin on disconnect" turned on.

167.Fixed bug in Installation program which was causing it to fail in
    certain situations.
168.Fixed bug in INI file saving routine which was preventing INI files from
    being updated properly in certain situations ie. in a network environment,
    where the mIRC EXE is not in the same HD/Directory as the INI files.
169.Fixed line highlighting bug, lines were sometimes being highlighted in
    the wrong situation.
170.Fixed bug in on OPEN/CLOSE events.

04/01/1998 - mIRC v5.31

Changes:
1.Fixed Alt-Gr keyboard bug.
2.Fixed toolbar button display bug.
3.Fixed min/max/close buttons in maximized windows (?)
4.Fixed bug in random port selection routine which was resulting
  in DCCs freezing if your IP address was incorrect.
5.Fixed certain keys not working if all windows in mIRC are
  minimized.
6.Fixed sorting bug in sorted text @windows.
7.Fixed bug in remote identifier processing.
8.Fixed /aline/iline/etc. commands scrolling text when adding a
  line when at the bottom of the text buffer.
9.Fixed wave sounds not playing for people whose computers don't
  have full wave/midi support, but $inwave and the on waveend
  event won't work in this case.
10.Fixed $show not being set correctly if . is used in a command
   that's part of an if statement.
11.Fixed isletter.
12.Fixed $dir/$file/etc. identifiers bug when using a description
   enclosed in quotes, wasn't evaluating following identifier.
13.Fixed DCC get extensions application bug under win3.x.
14.Fixed channel not being parted bug when a channel window is closed
   while mIRC is iconified in the taskbar.
15.Changed Help menu display of .txt and .hlp files, they're now
   separated into their own popup menus for more room, and mIRC won't
   limit the number of items that are displayed.
16.Added $width(text,font,size,B,C) identifier, returns width of text
   in pixels for the specified font and fontsize. If B is not zero then
   text is in bold, if C is not zero then it interprets colour codes.
17.Fixed /sound display bug, was showing channel info when a channel
   name wasn't specified.
18.Fixed /filter bug.
19.The Alt+1...9 key combination now minimizes a window if it is
   currently the active window.
20./sockwrite now won't let you queue > 8192 bytes per socket.
21.Fixed a $+ bug when used inside [ ] brackets.
22.Added "Include nicks" option in Options/Perform dialog makes
   highlight option search nicknames in a message.
23.Fixed bug in $?="...", the "..." wasn't being parsed correctly.
24.Fixed $readini bug when reading commands separated by |.
25.Can now create smaller windows eg. for picture windows.
26.Fixed buffer bug in socket handling.
27.If a user doesn't have a .wav or .mid DCC get directory association,
   mIRC now sets one up so downloaded .wav and .mid files go straight
   into the sounds directory so they can be used immediately with
   /sound and /splay.
28.Fixed on close event bug, closing a @window was triggering an on
   close:?: query event.
29.$count() now returns 0 if the second string is longer.
30.Added $bits identifier, returns 16 or 32 indicating the 16bit or
   32bit version of mIRC.
31./window -a now shows a window that was hidden with /window -h.
32.Fixed $address identifier for a DCC chat in on DCCSERVER event.

13/12/1997 - mIRC v5.3

Changes:
1.Fixed DDE bug, can now use DDE intensively in remote scripts
  without problems.
2.Fixed /font bug.
3.Fixed finger tooltip.
4.Fixed multiple-line pasting and handling by a script.
5.Fixed Fserve max. downloads per user bug.
6.Fixed DCC Get directory listbox not having a scroll bar.
7.Default drag-drop settings changed from using $2 to $2- to
  handle long file names.
8.URL catcher now catches @ characters in URLs as well.
9.Fixed @windows not defaulting to status window font.
10.The . prefix now makes /play quiet.
11.Fixed DCC Send dialog bug which was causing mIRC to exit for
   some people (?)
12.Fixed problem with mIRC not running under non-English versions
   of windows (was still having problems with certain languages).
13.Fixed tabbed dialogs display bug with large system font.
14.Can now echo to dedicated query window with /echo -d switch.
15.Fixed channel/private message text-wrapping bug.
16.Fixed /stats wrapping bug.
17.on NOSOUND is no longer tied to the "Warn if sound doesnt exist"
   switch in options dialog, it triggers anyway.
18.Fixed /dline gpf bug when specifying a range of lines.
19.Added -a switch to /savebuf, appends text to end of file.
20./loadbuf now loads text faster into normal (not custom) windows.
21.Can now specify the filename for the channels list file in the
   list channels dialog.
22.Fixed editbox focusing problem with when switching to/from
   desktop windows.
23.[removed]
24.Highlight in Options/perform dialog now checks only the text
   portion of a message and ignores the nickname.
25.Added auto-tile option.
26.Changed auto-tile/cascade/arrange method... these are now only
   applied when a window is first opened, when it's closed, or when
   the main mIRC window is resized.
27.Fixed notify popup menu problem when notify window first pops
   up on connect.
28.Added /filter command, allows filtering of information.

   /filter [-sdfwxnp] <infile> <outfile> <matchtext>

   The infile can be a filename or a window name (custom or normal).
   The outfile can be a filename or a custom window name. You should
   specify the -fw switches if the names are ambiguous eg.

   /filter -ff in.txt out.txt *mirc*

   This indicates that both are filenames, and:

   /filter -wf #in.txt #out.txt *help*

   indicates that the first is actually a window name, and the
   second is a filename.

   The -x switch excludes matching lines.
   The -n switch prefixes lines with a line number.
   The -s switch makes the status window the infile.
   The -d switch makes the dedicated message window the infile.
   The -p switch wraps the text output in a custom window

29.Added on WAVEEND event, works the same as on MIDIEND. Also added
   $inwave which returns $true/$false if currently playing a wave.
30.Added -qwm switches to /splay command. The -q switch allows you
   to queue wav and mid sounds for playing. The -wm switches are
   used in conjunction with /splay -wm stop, and allow you to specify
   whether you want to stop waves, mids, or both playing.
31.The Notify list now queues sounds if several notify users have
   an associated sound.
32.Fixed scrollbars bug in channel windows.
33.Fixed scrollbar display bug when changing fonts.
34.Added filename editbox to DCC send dialog.
35.Fixed /pdcc range.
36.Can now use $server(address) to look up server info, also speeded
   up $server() identifier.
37.Now only uses one toolbar button for connect/disconnect.
38.If you right-click on the Setup dialog toolbar button, a popup
   menu of your top 15 irc servers is displayed.
39.Fixed notify bug.
40.Added $appactive, returns $true if mIRC is the active application,
   $false if it isn't.
41.$script() no longer includes variables and users.
42.Implemented new indexing method for aliases/scripts, processing
   should be much faster, especially when many files are loaded.
43./remove can now handle LFNs.
44.Added "show topics in channel" switch to options dialog.
45.Added -uN switch to /set command, where N is the number of seconds
   delay before the specified variable is /unset.
46./.ignore -u is now completely quiet.
47.Changed behavior of /notify.
48.Added internal ctcp version flood protection.
49./timers can now be given names as well as numbers.
50.Actions now trigger the on QUERYOPEN event if a window isn't open,
   and fixed bug relating to remote handling of invalid actions.
51.Fixed lines sometimes being highlighted incorrectly.
52.Added nick completion with TAB key in a channel window editbox.
   If the editbox is empty and the TAB key is pressed it works as
   before (places /msg nickname in editbox).
53.[removed]
54.Fixed font dialog bug.
55.Fixed channel nickname selection bug with popups.
56.Fixed /sline bug not working with &+ channels.
57.Added -@ switch to /close command for closing custom windows.
58.Fixed /savebuf bug when used with an empty text window.
59.Added /flash [-wb] <text> command, which flashes the mIRC icon/window
   with the specific text in the titlebar, but only if mIRC is not the
   active window. The -b switch makes mIRC beep every second, the -w
   switch makes mIRC play the Flash sound specified in the Event Beeps
   dialog.

   Also added Flash option in windows system menu for channel and
   private windows.
60.The mIRC icon/window is now flashed if mIRC is not the active
   window and it receives a private or channel message that triggers
   the highlight option in the perform section.
61.If text specified with the /editbox command contains a linefeed
   character, it is entered into the editbox and immediately processed
   as if you had entered it and pressed the enter key.
62.Changed ctcp event format to:

   ctcp level:matchtext:*|#|?:commands

   This allows you to differentiate more easily between channel and
   private ctcps. The old format is still handled.
63.Fixed /server remembering previous server connection info.
64.While connecting or retrying a connection, the connect/disconnect
   toolbar button remains in the disconnect state.
65.Added "Highlight" and "Flash" sound settings in the Event Beeps
   dialog. These allow you to specify the sounds that will be played
   for the highlight/flash options in the Perform dialog.
66.Added .path property to $send() and $get() for a file's directory
   path.
67.Implemented new indexing method for variables.
68.Added quick colour index dialog that pops up when Control-K is
   pressed, can be turned on/off in Options/Extras dialog.
69.Changed $pos() to include start search from Nth character. The
   old format is still handled.

   $pos(string, substring, N)

   If N is zero $pos() will return the number of times substring
   appears in string.

70.Now using one routine for reporting the most common errors, and
   the majority of commands now report a filename and line number
   for an error.
71.Added properties to $notify() .note, .sound, .whois, and can now
   specify either a number or a nickname parameter.
72.Added /rename <filename> <newfilename> command. Can also be used
   to move files from one directory to another.
73.Added -b switch to /font command to specify a bold font.
74.Added -p switch to /aline, /iline, and /loadbuf, forces lines of
   text to wrap when added to a custom window.
75.Added /linesep [-s|window] command to print line separator.
76.Added /copy <filename> <filename> command. You can use wildcards
   for the source, and a directory name for the destination.
77.Added $show identifier, returns $false if a command/alias is
   prefixed with a . to make it quiet, otherwise returns $true.
78.Added "try next server in group" switch in Setup/options dialog,
   works in conjunction with the retry option.
79.Added on DCCSERVER event, triggers on a DCC server connection,
   and allows you to /halt the connection.

   on 1:DCCSERVER:Chat|Send|Fserve:echo $nick $address $filename

80.Removed support for /msg #@channel for Undernet servers.
81.Can now use === comparison in if statement for case sensitive
   comparisons.
82.Added -f switch to /log command, allows you to specify a filename.

   /log <on|off> <window> [-f filename]

83.Added -l switch to alias prefix in scripts, makes an alias in a
   remote script local to the script, so it can only be called by
   events from within that script. It is invisible to all other
   aliases, scripts, and the command line.

   alias [-l] aliasname { commands }

84.Fixed dclick bug with text/listbox windows.
85.Fixed bug with menubar definitions in scripts not appearing in
   menubar if there isn't a Popup for the menubar defined in the
   Popups dialog.
86.Fixed bug in url/email catcher, url catcher now also ignores
   addresses that are too short.
87.Added "copy all" button to /uwho dialog.
88.Added $sdir identifier, pops up a directory selection dialog.
89.Can now specify the range of port numbers used by DCC in the
   DCC Options dialog.
90.Extended "!nick filename" feature so that it supports .mp3 files.
   (note: mIRC can't play .mp3 files itself).
91.Added $colour(name) identifier, returns colour index N of the
   specified custom colour. You can use the name of the custom colour
   eg. $colour(action text). If you don't specify the full name the
   first partial match is returned eg. $colour(action)
92.Modified line-handling commands/identifiers to treat wrapped lines
   as a single line.
93.Changed /dns queuing method so that it only attempts to resolve
   an address once a previous one has finished resolving, and fixed
   a bug when trying to use /dns from within an on dns event.
94.Added -inx switches to /join, -i joins the last channel to which
   you were invited. The -n switch minimizes, and -x maximizes, the
   channel window when you join it.
95.[removed]
96.Fixed popups display bug when using certain combinations of
   submenu definitions.
97.Extended dclick prefix in script menus so that it can handle
   multiple lines etc.
98.Added -uN switch to /inc and /dec, this increases/decreases the
   specified variable by 1 (and only one) every second, for N seconds,
   and then unsets the variable.
100./write, /writeini, /remini, $read, and $readini now handle long
    filenames enclosed in quotes.
101.Added binary variable/file commands.

    /bread <filename> <bytepos> <numbytes> <&binvar>
    /bwrite <filename> <bytepos> [numbytes] <text|%var|&binvar>

    $bvar(&binvar,N)

    If N is 0, returns the length of the binary variable, otherwise
    returns the ascii number of the Nth character.

    /bset <&binvar> <bytepos> <asciivalue>

    If you try to /bset a variable that doesnt exist, it is created
    and zero filled up to <bytepos>. If &binvar exists and you specify
    <bytepos> beyond it's current size, it is extended to <bytepos>
    bytes.

    Note:
    1.If a bytepos of -1 is used with /bwrite, the info is appended
      to the end of the file.
    2.&binary variables can ONLY be accessed by certain commands
      (only bread and bwrite for now) so they can't be printed or
      assigned or edited.
    3.&binary variables are temporary - they are destroyed when a
      script finishes processing.
    4.Max numbytes is 4096.

102.Added -eiN switches to /echo command. The e switch encloses the
    printed text in line separators. The -iN switch indents the
    wrapped line by N characters.
104.$strip() now also removes leading spaces.
105.Fixed /if bug.
106.Added -m switch to /timer command, uses a millisecond timer.
    Note: millisecond timers can slow mIRC down significantly because
    each timer can trigger many times per second and is processed
    individually, whereas non-millisecond timers are only processed
    once per second in one batch.
107.Added support for raw socket connections.

    $sock(name,N).name,.port,.ip,.status,.sent,.rcvd,.sq,.rq,.ls,.lr,.mark

      .name is the name you give to a connection to identify it.
      .sent and .rcvd return the number of bytes sent and rcvd
       over that connection so far.
      .sq and .rq return the number of bytes queued in the send
       and receive buffers respectively (see below for more info).
      .ls and .lr return the number of seconds since the connection
       last sent and last received info.
      .mark is a user storage area max. 512 bytes (see /sockmark)

       Note: you can use a wildcard name to quickly reference only
       matching entries. The N parameter is optional, if it isn't
       specified it is assumed to be 1.

    $sockname

      $sockname is the name given to a connection to identify
      it. This identifier can be used in events to know which
      connection an event is related to.

    $sockerr

      $sockerr is set to a value after each socket command/event
      and *must* be checked after each socket command and before
      processing an event to see if an error occurred.

    $sockbr

      $sockbr is set to the number of bytes read by a /sockread
      command. It is used to test whether any information was
      in fact read from the buffer (see below for more info).

    $portfree(N)

      returns $true if the specified port number is not in use,
      otherwise returns $false.

    /socklisten <name> [port]

      The /socklisten command listens on the specified port for
      connections to that port. If a port isn't specified, the
      port is selected randomly from the range specified in the
      DCC Options DCC ports section.

    on 1:socklisten:name:commands

      The socklisten event is triggered when someone tries to
      connect to a port that you are listening on. If you want to
      accept the connection you *must* do it in this event using
      the /sockaccept command, otherwise the connection is closed.

    /sockaccept <name>

      The /sockaccept command accepts the current connection to your
      listening port and assigns it a name to identify it.

    /sockrename <name> <newname>

      The /sockrename command assigns a new name to an existing
      connection.

    /sockopen   <name> <address> <port>

      The /sockopen commands initiates a connection to the specified
      address and port. You can specify either an ip address or a 
      named address (which will be resolved to an ip address).

    on 1:sockopen:name:commands

      The sockopen event is triggered when a /sockopen command is
      successful and a connection has been made.

    /sockclose  <name>

      The /sockclose command closes the connection with the specified
      name. If you specify a wildcard name, all connections that match
      the wildcard are closed.

    on 1:sockclose:name:commands

      The sockclose event is triggered when a connection is closed
      by the remote connection (not you).

    /sockwrite [-tn] <name> <text|%var|&binvar>

      The /sockwrite command queues info to be sent on the specified
      connection. mIRC will then try to send that info as quickly as
      it can. Once it has finished sending the info, it triggers the
      on sockwrite event so you can send more info if you need to.

      If you specify the -t switch, it forces mIRC to send anything
      beginning with a & as normal text instead of interpreting it
      as a binary variable. The -n switch appends a CRLF to the line
      being sent if it's not a &binvar and if it doesn't already have
      a CRLF.

      Note: you can use a wildcard name to send the same information
      at once to all connections that match the wildcard.

    on 1:sockwrite:name:commands

      The sockwrite event is triggered when mIRC has finished sending
      all of the info which you previously queued for sending.

      Note: if you try to /sockwrite while there is still info
      queued in the send buffer, your new info will just be added
      to the end of the queue. You can find out how much info is
      currently queued by using $sock().sq (send queue).

    on 1:sockread:name:commands

      The sockread event is triggered when there is info waiting to
      be read on the specified connection. You can read this info
      using the /sockread command.

      Note: If this event triggers but no /sockread is performed
      to attempt to read the buffer, it is assumed that no script
      exists that is handling this buffer, so it is cleared and the
      info it contained is lost.

    /sockread [numbytes] <%var|&binvar>

      The /sockread command reads bytes from the receive buffer into
      the specified variable.

      If you specify a %var variable, a line of text ending with a
      Carriage Return/LineFeed is read into %var. The CRLF are
      stripped off (this may result in %var being $null if the line
      only consisted of CRLF).

      If you specify a &binvar then [numbytes] of info is read into
      the binary variable. If no [numbytes] is specified it defaults
      to 4096 bytes.

      Note: a single /sockread may not be enough to read the entire
      buffer. You should keep reading until $sockbr (bytes read) is
      set to zero. This is far faster than letting mIRC re-trigger
      the event. If your script doesn't read the whole buffer, the
      on sockread event is re-triggered if:
        a) you were reading into a &binvar.
        b) you were reading into a %var and there is still a CRLF
           terminated line in the buffer waiting to be read.

    /sockmark <name> [text]

      The /sockmark command fills the .mark attribute of a socket with
      the specified info for later reference via the $sock().mark
      property. If you do not specify any text, the mark is cleared.

      Note: you can use a wildcard name to set the same information
      at once for all connections that match the wildcard.

108.Changed handling of filenames that don't have a fully specified
    path. If a filename has a directory specified with no drive, it is
    assumed to be in a subdir of the mIRC directory. If it has no drive
    or directory, it is assumed to be in the mIRC directory.
109.Fixed /cd into a filename in fileserver.
110.Implemented new indexing method for IAL.
111.Added $ial identifier, returns $true/$false if ial is on/off.
112.Added two new tokens:

      $deltok(text,N,C)        deletes Nth token
      $puttok(text,token,N,C)  overwrites Nth token

    Extended $find/rem/reptok() so you can specify the Nth matching
    token. The old formats are still handled.

      $findtok(text,token,N,C)     finds Nth matching token
      $remtok(text,token,N,C)      deletes Nth matching token
      $reptok(text,token,new,N,C)  overwrites Nth matching token

113.Fixed MDI/desktop options bug.
114.The # character is now equivalent to $chan in remote events.
115./ulist now displays results in current window.
116.Specifying zero for the N parameter in $mid(text,S,N) now returns
    the number of characters from S to the end of the line.
117.Extended the /window command with the following switches:

    /window [-abcdefhl[N]norsx] [-tN,..,N] [+bfmnstx] etc...

    -f   indicates that [w h] width and height is the required size
         of the text/graphic display area instead of the window size.

    -h   hides the custom window (only appears in Windows list).

    -lN  specifying a number after the l listbox switch now creates
         a custom window with a listbox N characters wide on the
         side (like a channel window).

         Note: The -l switch can be used in custom window related
         commands eg. aline, to reference this listbox.

         You can use $line(@name,N,T) where T is 0 if you are referring
         to the text display or 1 if you are referring to the listbox.
         The old format $line(@name,N) is still supported.

    [-tN,..,N] specify tabstops (in characters) for a listbox window. If
    you add text which contains tabs to the listbox, the text is aligned
    according to these tabstops.

    [+bfnstx] modify the window appearance.

         b = border
         f = dialog frame
         n = minimize box
         s = sizable
         t = titlebar
         x = maximize box

118.Added /resetidle command to reset $idle timer to 0.
119.on INPUT event can now use wildcard text for window name.
120.Added Close Window Alt+Z menu item to Window menu.
121.Added new on OPEN/CLOSE event which triggers when a window is opened
    or closed. The behavior of this event is slightly different depending
    on the type of window.

    on 1:OPEN:?|@|=|!|*:echo opened $target
    on 1:CLOSE:?|@|=|!|*:echo closed $target

    Channels:    are not handled by these events, they are handled by
                 the on JOIN/PART events.

    Queries:     on OPEN triggers if an incoming message is about to
                 open a new query window.
                 on CLOSE triggers if you close a query window.

    Chat/Fserve: on OPEN triggers when a connection is made.
                 on CLOSE triggers when a connection is closed.

    Custom:      on OPEN never triggers since you manually open a
                 /window anyway.
                 on CLOSE triggers if you close a custom window.

    Note: on CHATOPEN/CHATCLOSE/QUERYOPEN/QUERYCLOSE/SERVOPEN/SERVCLOSE
          events are now obsolete, if you load a script that uses them
          mIRC will (try to) translate them into the new format.
122.Added -h switch to /echo command which forces text to hard wrap.
123.Specifying line 0 with $read eg. $read -l0, now returns the value of
    the first line if it is a number.
124.Fixed remote identifiers not evaluating inside custom identifiers.
125.Added faster indexing for menu {} definitions in scripts.
126.The Text editor now warns you if it was unable to display the
    whole of a file in the editbox.
127.Added -p switch to the /window command, opens a new type of custom
    window for displaying pictures/graphics/text/etc. See below for the
    commands/identifiers available for use with this window.

    /drawdot -ihnr @ <colour> <size> <x y> [<x y>...]

      Draws a dot in the specified colour and size at the specified
      x,y co-ordinates (multiple co-ordinates can be provided).

      The -i switch draws in inverse mode.

      The -h switch highlights the windows icon if it's minimized.

      The -n switch prevents the display from being updated immediately.
      You can specify any of the /draw commands with only a window name
      to update the display (allows you to make changes in the background
      and then display the result when you're finished).

      The -r switch indicates that the colour is in RGB format. You can
      use $rgb(N,N,N) to create an RGB value.

      You can clear the whole window with /clear @windowname.

    /drawline -inr @ <colour> <size> <x y> <x y> [<x y>...]

      This draws a line from the first <x y> co-ordinate to the second,
      if more co-ordinates are specified, the line is continued.

    /drawrect -ihnrfec @ <colour> <size> <x y w h> [<x y w h>...]

      This draws a rectangle of at the specified co-ordinates of the
      specified width and height. If more co-ordinates are specified
      these are also drawn as separate rectangles.

      The -f switch fills the rectangle with the current colour.

      The -e switch draws an Ellipse instead of a rectangle.

      The -c switch draws a focus rectangle.

    /drawfill -ihnrs @ <colour> <colour> <x y> [filename] [<x y>...]

      This fills an area with the specified colour starting at the
      specified co-ordinates.

      If the -s switch is specified, this means that the second colour
      parameter is the colour that should be filled. If no -s is
      specified, the second colour is the border colour at which filling
      should stop.

      The optional [filename] specifies a bitmap .BMP file that is
      8 by 8 pixels in size and is used as a fill pattern.

    /drawtext -hnrpboc @ <colour> [colour] [fontname fontsize] <x y [w h]> <text>

      This draws text at the specified co-ordinates.

      The -p switch processes and interprets colour/bold/etc. codes in
      the text.

      The -b switch indicates that you have specified a second colour
      as the background colour for the text.

      The -o switch means the specified font should be in bold.

      The -c switch means that you have specified the [w h] values as
      the rectangle in which text should be printed. Text will be
      clipped if it extends beyond this rectangle.

    /drawscroll -hn @ <x> <y> <x y w h> [<x> <y> <x y w h>...]

      This scrolls the region inside the specified rectangle. The first
      <x> and <y> parameters represent the distance to scroll and can
      be positive or negative.

    /drawcopy -ihnt @ [colour] <x y w h> @ <x y [w h]>

      This copies part of a picture to a different position in the
      same window or to another window. If the second [w h] parameters
      are specified, the picture is stretched/squeezed to fit.

      The -t switch indicates that you have specified a [colour] RGB
      value as a transparent colour in the source bitmap.

    /drawpic -ihntsc @ [colour] <x y [w h]> [x y w h] <filename>

      This loads and draws a Bitmap .BMP picture at the specified
      co-ordinates. If the first [w h] are specified, it is stretched
      or squeezed to fit. The second [x y w h] rectangle specifies
      which portion of the loaded bitmap should be displayed ie. a
      bitmap could contain multiple pictures.

      The -t switch indicates that you have specified a [colour] RGB
      value as a transparent colour in the specified bitmap.

      The -s switch indicates that you have specified the first [w h]
      parameters (as explained above) to squeeze/stretch the bitmap.

      The -c switch indicates that the bitmap should be CACHED. This
      greatly speeds up subsequent references to this bitmap. If you
      specify -c and the bitmap is already in the cache, it is loaded
      and used from the cache, otherwise it is reloaded from the file.
      You can clear the entire cache with /drawpic -c.

      If you try to load and cache a bitmap and there are already 30
      bitmaps in the cache, the bitmap with the lowest reference count
      is freed and replaced by the new bitmap.

      If you try to load a bitmap and there isn't enough memory, mIRC
      repeatedly frees the least referenced bitmap and tries to load
      again.

    $pic(filename).size,width,height

      This returns the size, width, and height of a bitmap file.

    menu @ {
      mouse:/echo mouse moved at $mouse.x $mouse.y
      sclick:/echo single click at $mouse.x $mouse.y
      dclick:/echo double click at $mouse.x $mouse.y
      drop:/echo drag and drop at $mouse.x $mouse.y
    }

      The mouse event is triggered when you move a mouse inside a
      picture window. You can use the $mouse identifier (below) for
      the x and y position of the mouse.

      The sclick event is triggered when you click inside a picture
      window. It will trigger even if you double-click. The dclick
      event is triggered when you double-click inside a picture window.

    $mouse.x,.y,.key

      The $mouse identifier can be used in the mouse/click events.
      For $mouse.key you can use the & bitwise operator to check if
      the left button, shift key, and/or control key are pressed.

      eg. if ($mouse.key & 1) echo left button is pressed

    $click(@,N).x,.y

      This stores a history of x,y clicks for a window. You can use
      /clear -c @ to clear the history of clicks for a window. If you
      use $click() with no properties it returns x y.

    $inrect(x,y,x,y,w,h)

      This returns $true if the point x y is in the specified rectangle,
      and $false if it isn't.

    $rgb(N,N,N)

      This returns an RGB value for use in the above commands. If you
      use only ONE parameter, it assumes it is an actual RGB value and
      returns N,N,N.

    $getdot(@,x,y)

      This returns the RGB value of the pixel at the specified position.

128.Added Control-F Find text search dialog for use in text windows.
129.Fixed /ignore -p ignoring a users actions to a channel instead of
    only in private messages.
130.Fixed channel listbox selection bug, was leading to items in listbox
    being selected spuriously in certain situations.
131.Added identifiers $sin(N), $asin(N), $cos(N), $acos(N), $tan(N),
    $atan(N), where N is in radians, $log(N), $sqrt(N).
132.The channel name is now displayed in a CTCP if you received it via
    a channel message.
133.Fixed Bold/underline/etc. bug in text display.
134.Keyboard messages are now processed correctly for desktop windows.
135.Fixed bug relating to messages being incorrectly highlighted.
136.Added properties to $window(N/@) identifier, now includes:

    $window().x,y,w,h,dw,dh,bw,bh,mdi,title,state

    x,y    the left and top corner position
    w,h    the width and height of the window
    dw,dh  the width and height of the text/graphic display area.
    bw,bh  the width and height of the bitmap for a bitmap window
           this may not be the same size as the display area.
    mdi    $true if window is mdi, otherwise $false
    title  the text in the titlebar
    state  minimized/maximized/normal/hidden

    If you specify -1 as the window name, w and h will return
    the width and height of the screen.
137.Fixed floating point number checking routine, was treating a
    single . as the value zero.
138.Fixed conflicting shortcut keys in several dialogs.
139.Added Minimize to Tray option in Extras dialog. This option is
    only available under win95 with the 32bit mIRC.

    If the option is unchecked, you can force mIRC to minimize to
    the tray by holding down the SHIFT key when you minimize mIRC.

    If the flash option is triggered, the icon flashes.

    If you right-click on the icon a popup menu with your current
    queries/channels appears, those that have a checkmark next to
    them have had their icons highlighted due to incoming messages.
    You can click a menu item to open the window.

    If you hold down the SHIFT key when you quit mIRC, the next time
    you run it, it will be minimized.

140.Added $portfree(N) identifier, returns $true if the specified
    port number is not in use, otherwise returns $false.
141./splay and notify can now handle LFN sounds.
142.If you hold down the Control key when clicking on a windows tab
    in the switchbar, the window is minimized.
143.Extended $maddress() so you can specify the Nth matching address,
    eg. $maddress(address,N). The old format is still handled.
144.Fixed identd bug which was disabling identd in certain situations.
145.If your directories for DCC Get, Logs or Sounds are the main mIRC
    directory, mIRC creates a download directory for DCC gets, and asks
    if you want a Logs/Sounds directory created for you. Existing .log
    or .wav and .mid files are moved from the main directory into their
    respective directories.
146.Leading spaces are now stripped from a $read line.
147.Added support for DALnets /nick <nickname> [password] command.
148.Can now hold down Alt-Key while pressing enter in a multi-line
    editbox to enter separate lines.
149.If you use /load to load a file that is already loaded, its
    contents are updated and its position in the processing order
    is maintained.
150.Added /mkdir <dirname> and /rmdir <dirname> commands.
151.Fixed bug in Identd, Finger, and DCC Servers which was causing
    them to miss incoming connections if many came in quickly at
    the same time.
152.Lines in the channels list are now stripped of control codes
    before being scanned for the match text.
153.Fixed file creation routines not setting the correct read/write
    file attributes in certain cases.
154.If you /server <group> and the group doesn't exist, mIRC assumes
    it's an address without a domain and tries to connect to it.
155.Fixed out of bounds number processing gpf bug, out of bounds
    error calculations now return $null.
156.Fixed drag-drop bug.
157.It is no longer possible to alias the /unload command.
158.Can now press Alt+1...9 key combination to switch to the Nth
    window in the Window list. eg. Alt+1 is the status window. You
    can also use Alt+0 to switch to the main mIRC window from an
    mIRC desktop window.
159.Fixed toolbar bug which was preventing keypresses from being
    processed when the tooltip was displayed.

11/09/1997 - mIRC v5.11

Changes:
1.Fixed problem with mIRC not running under non-English versions
  of windows (main reason for this bugfix release).
2.Fixed version info in version tab in explorer.
3.Removed support for IRCNets numeric 005 B:lines for this version.
4.Now handles /privmsg with : prefixing the message.
5.Fixed mIRC not evaluating certain identifiers if they were
  capitalized.
6.Fixed $file/$hfile/etc. not using the specified directory.
7.Fixed DCC server socket not being closed properly on exit.
8.Added $highlight identifier returns text in highlight editbox
  in options dialog.
9.Fixed -h icon highlight bug for /aline etc. commands.
10.Fixed /cline bug (?)
11.Fixed default listbox text colour not being updated after
   changing it in colour dialog.
12.When copying a URL to the clipboard from the URL popup menu,
   the cr/lf characters is not added if you're only copying a
   single URL.
13.Fixed Alt+F4 appearing in minimized windows instead of Ctrl+F4.
14.Fixed /describe =nick bug.
15.Fixed $round().
16.Fixed server connection retry when a connection fails.
17.Fixed /remove bug.
18.Fixed small finger server $ bug.
19.Fixed toggling MDI/desktop status of window when it is minimized.
20.Fixed $server in on disconnect event.
21.Fixed Identd UserId being used instead of Email UserId when
   registering with IRC server.
22.Fixed /unloading alias/script files bug, files are now saved if
   they have been changed before unloading.
23.Changed server lookup method in local info dialog back to old
   method, the named address is resolved using /dns to look up the
   ip address.
24.Fixed font bug in text display routines for windows/listboxes.
25.Fixed bug when switching between multi/single-line editbox.
26.Fixed shift-drag-drop settings not being saved.
27.Fixed offline DCC chat window closing even if "close window on
   DCC completion" option is not turned on.
28.Fixed text-wrapping when displaying certain numeric events.

28/08/1997 - mIRC v5.1

Changes:
1.Fixed actions display bug.
2.Fixed empty first line in alias halting script.
3.Fixed small bug in !nick file.
4.Fixed on DNS being triggered when events are turned off.
5.Fixed remembering window position/size bug.
6.Can now use {} in single-line definitions in popups, they are
  ignored by the {} parser.
7.Fixed !nick file not working in DCC chats.
8.Fixed sound requests bug, sound request filenames which contain
  a drive or directory specifier caused problems.
9.Fixed line-wrap bug in minimized @custom window.
10.The /part command sends a /part to the server as usual but now it
   also closes the specified channel window immediately.
11.Fixed $inmidi returning true/false instead of $true/$false.
12.Fixed Help menu bug, wasn't acknowledging selection sometimes.
13.Fixed small bug in on NOSOUND event.
14.Fixed /whois on a notify nick with an address specified.
15.Fixed editbox losing focus when drag-dropping a file on a window.
16.Now allows you to clear a users notify sound setting and the
   DCC get directory application setting by clicking it's button.
17.Now allows you to use /ban with an address, if you specify a wild
   card address, it is used as is. If you specify a full address, the
   address mask is applied to it.
18.on SERVCLOSE now also triggers on a fileserver time-out, and both
   on SERVCLOSE and on CHATCLOSE trigger when you close a window
   manually.
19.Fileserver allows cd into an LFN directory.
20.Added $getdir(*.ext) returns download directory for filetype.
21.Can now use /titlebar @window to change topic of custom window.
22./run command no longer changes specified line to lower case.
23.You can now specify a window name for the on INPUT event by
   using the format on 1:input:*/#/?/@:/commands.
24.Added $alias(N/filename) and $script(N/filename) identifiers.
25.On connecting, if mIRC doesn't receive a 375 (RPL_MOTDSTART)
   before recieving 372's (RPL_MOTD), it shows the 372's.
26.Server IP Address lookup method is now different, it gets the IP
   address from the actual connection so it doesnt have to look it
   up, and after connecting it looks up the named address with a
   /userhost. For new IRCnet servers, mIRC uses the address in the
   numeric 001 when first connecting instead of /userhost.
27.Fixed notify bug (?) previous method was causing problems, so have
   reverted to sending all notify lines immediately.
28.Improved tabbed dialogs display, there should no longer be any
   flickering in the display.
29.Modified some icons, also added an mIRC scripts icon.
30.Fixed !nick filename bug which wouldn't work if a user specified a
   message after the filename.
31.Added internal version info to exe.
32.Changed display method of icons in switchbar buttons.
33.Fixed com1, com2, etc. device bug (?)
34.Added copy option to urls list popup menu.
35.Send To option in urls list popup menu now doesn't send description
   of address if it's the same as the address.
36.Added support for /locops.
37.Fixed old parsing bug relating to positioning of : character, affects
   general server commands such as /wallops, /globops, /away, /stats,
   /who, /userhost, etc.
38.Can now specify -n with /run to minimize a window.
39.Added "All" button in replace text dialog.
40.Can now specify a @window name in $findfile() as the Nth parameter
   and it will output list of matching files to @window if it exists.
41.Fixed /fingering an IP address.
42./.dns now hides output of dns results.
43.Fixed bug in switchbar display when showing/minimizing windows.
44.When the switchbar is turned on, minimizing URL and Notify windows
   is now the same as closing them.
45.URL Catcher now catches email addresses.
46.Improved method for closing down a connection, should prevent the
   problems with the computer hanging when disconnecting from a server.
47.Added $window().titlebar property identifier.
48.Improved memory usage of /dns, socks host, and finger routines.
49.$address identifier can now be used to refer to the address in the
   titlebar of a query window.
50.Added -a switch to /write command which appends the text to the
   specified line.
51.Added /clipboard <text> command, copies text to the clipboard.
52.Major decrease in DCC Send/Get memory usage. Also the /pdcc method
   has changed, should be faster now.
53.Fixed logging switch in window system menu when changing to/from
   MDI/desktop window mode.
54.Text @windows no longer wrap text.
55.Can now /loadbuf a window's log file into its window.
56.Added $query(nick).address which refers to the address in the query
   window titlebar. Note: this address could be incorrect and is not
   available until after you receive a message from the user.
57.Fixed popup menu bug which was resulting in processing of lines
   following the end of a definition.
58.If no dclick item is specified in a menu script, mIRC uses the
   /command definition of a @window for the double-click.
59.Fixed /help passing parameters.
60.Fixed on dns ip address bug.
61.Added $ltimer identifier, returns number of last started timer.
62.Added $email identifier, returns email address in setup dialog.
63.Fixed any ctcpreply beginning with "PING" being interpreted as
   a ping reply.
64.Added (v1 isletter v2) comparison, where v1 is a letter in the
   list of letters in v2 (v2 optional).
65.Added $ignore(N/address) identifier, with .type property.
66.Added /sline [-a|r] #channel N/nick command.
67.Changed identifier parsing routine so that it is now independent
   of the command parsing routine, which allows...
68.Identifiers and variables in Menu definitions, Full Name, and Quit
   message are now evaluated.
69.Lines in finger server file are now evaluated if they are prefixed
   with a $ character.
70.Fixed dclick in menu script definition being triggered for a window
   even if the popup name in /window wasn't specified.
71.Added $ialchan(address,#channel,N).
72.Now handles floating point numbers (precision to 5 digits only).
73.Fixed recursive gpf with multiple script on start/load calls.
74.Fixed toolbar buttons display bug (?) buttons appeared incorrectly
   under some graphics drivers.
75.Added $round(N,D) rounds to closest integer and $int(N) chops off
   decimal point.
76.Can now use Shift-F1 in dialogs.
77.Added $calc(N) identifier, allows you to perform mathematical
   calculations, combining brackets, terms, variables, identifiers,
   handles operator precedence, etc. eg.:

   //echo 1 $calc(3.14159 * (2 ^ %x % 3) - ($ticks / (10000 + 1)))

78.Added Address Book which replaces the Uwho dialog. You can use the
   command /uwho <nick> as usual to /whois a user, or you can use the
   command /abook <nick> to display the currently stored info on a user.
   Can display pictures only in BMP format. You can pop up the Address
   book with Alt-B.
79.Can now /list <#channel[,#channel,...]> to list just the specified
   channels.
80.When you manually turn on logging for a window you can now specify
   a log filename which will be remembered across sessions until you
   turn logging off. Turning off logging for a window is now also stored
   across sessions, so once you turn it off it needs to be manually
   turned on again later (the auto-log option won't override it).
81.Script errors such as invalid if statements, identifiers, non-existent
   gotos, etc. now report line number/filename.
82.Fixed toolbar tracking mouse when mIRC isn't the active application.
83.Fixed bugs relating to If statements and [ ] brackets.
84.Fixed custom identifiers returning garbage if no /return is used.
85.Added $link(N) identifier for Links window, with properties .addr,
   .ip, .level, and .info.
86.Added /editbox [-s|-a|[=]window] [text] command which fills the editbox
   of the specified window with text. If no text is specified, the editbox
   is cleared.
87.If you press the Up/Down key to view the previous/next line in an
   editbox, and you are at the bottom of the editbox, the current line
   is first saved. If you're at the bottom of the buffer and you press
   down, the editbox is cleared.
88.Can now specify a range of lines with /dline, eg:
   /dline @name N[-N2]   delete lines N to N2
89.Can now customize colurs in Colour dialog by right-clicking on a
   colour box. Note: only SOLID colours can be used.
90.Added Script ordering dialog for aliases and remote scripts.
91.Tweaked text display routine.
92.Fixed appearance of mode change when using /channel dialog.
93.Added Lock files option to logging dialog. If turned on, log files
   are opened, written to, and only closed when logging is turned off
   or window is closed. If turned off, log files are opened, written to,
   and closed each time a new line is written to the log.
94.Listboxes can now display coloured lines, eg. custom windows, the
   links list window, etc.
95.Now displays a square around selected colour box in colour dialog.
96.Control codes are now interpreted in channels list, links list,
   urls list, and custom window listboxes.
97.The channel nicknames list no longer jumps around when nicks are
   added/removed/modified to/from/in it, and selections and nick colours
   remain constant across nick/mode changes.
98.Added command /cline [colour] @name N, allows you to set the colour
   of the specified line.
99.Fixed /squit.
100.Fixed handling PONG server reply that isn't fully specified. This
    was causing the flood protect mechanism to stall and not send any
    buffered text.
101.Control codes in /titlebar text are now stripped out.
102.The Check Brackets button in the Editor dialog now turns into a sort
    variables button when viewing the variables section.
103.Fixed Control-Shift-Tab bug, was stopping at channel windows.
104.Decreased the number of memory allocations in the command parsing
    routine by over 50%, in some cases it may be close to 100% decrease.
    There is a slight increase in script processing speed, but this
    change should mainly affect mIRC running under NT.
105.Fixed $asc() bug.
106.Added -s switch to /play command, allows you to play commands to
    status window, and can now also /play while not connected to server.
107.Fixed /remove command.
108.[removed]
109.Added [+m|-m] switch to /creq and /sreq to turn minimize on/off.
110.Fixed $replace() gpfing with long lines.
111.Now displays numeric 329 with channel creation time.
112.Added auto-arrange icons and auto-cascade options to Window menu.
113.Line separator is now not printed again if the previous line was
    a line separator.
114./wallchops command is now translated into the /onotice command.
115.Can now queue multiple /dns requests. If an address is already in
    the DNS queue, it is not added again.

    Note: because of the way the DNS lookup works, any DNS related
    requests currently in progress eg. connecting to a server, must
    be resolved before subsequent requests. This means that if a prior
    DNS is having problems resolving, subsequent DNSs have to wait
    until it times out before they can be resolved.

116.Added auto-overwrite option for DCC Gets.
117.Changed DCC Options dialog into a tabbed dialog for more space.
118.Added events on 1:QUERYOPEN/QUERYCLOSE:/echo $nick $address. Note
    that $address may not always be available.
119.Now displays messages sent to @#channel properly, and $target is
    also set correctly with the @ prefix.
120.For DALnet 4.4.11 & Undernet 2.10 or higher /onotice now sends
    message in the format: /notice|/msg @#Channel.
121.Custom Menubar on|off is no longer an option. If there is popup
    text in the Menubar section of the Editor, the menubar will be
    displayed automatically.
122.Fixed rubbish text appearing in Editor dialog when switching from
    Users/Variables to a script section via the View menu.
123.When selecting File/New in Editor dialog, any changes in the current
    editbox are now remembered.
124.Can now use /savebuf [-s|-f] etc. to save status/finger buffer,
    a window name should not be specified.
125.When a channel is first joined, mIRC now saves to the channels
    logfile: channel topic, topic set by, channel URL, and channel
    creation time.
126.URL catcher now doesn't chop off addresses with ? and = in them.
127./partall now works offline.
128.Added /dqwindow [on|off|show|hide|min] which allows you to change
    the dedicated query window setting, and to manipulate the window.
129.When listing info on a specific channel eg. /list #mIRC, your
    channels.txt file is not over-written.
130.Fixed handling multiple lines pasted into editbox and parsing
    by on INPUT event.
131.Added /winhelp <filename> <key> command for opening help files.
132.Added -h switch to /aline/dline/etc. line commands which highlights
    the icon of the window in which the change is being made.
133.Added $timezone identifier, for the 32bit version the return value
    depends on timezone setting in Windows, for the 16bit the return
    value depends on the TZ environment variable in your autoexec.bat.
134.Fixed /timer -o switch bug.
135.Added mIRC DCC server, listens by default on port 59 for special
    mIRC DCC connections. To turn the DCC server on/off you can use
    the command:

    /dccserver [+|-scf] [on|off] [port]

    You can send/chat/fserve the DCC server using the DCC Send/Chat
    dialogs and specifying an IP address instead of a nickname (you
    can also specify both a nickname and IP address, mIRC will use
    the ip address to connect).

    From the command line, you can use /dcc [send|chat|fserve] with an
    IP Address instead of a nickname to initiate a connection to the
    DCC server. Note: /dcc fserve only works for IP connections and
    does not work via IRC.

    Chat Protocol
      Client connects to Server and sends:
      100 clientnickname
      When Server receives this, it sends:
      101 servernickname
      Connection is established, users can now chat.

    Fserve Protocol
      Client connects to Server and sends:
      110 clientnickname
      When Server receives this, it sends:
      111 servernickname
      Connection is established, user can now access fserve.

    Send Protocol
      Client connects to Server and sends:
      120 clientnickname filesize filename
      When Server receives this, it sends:
      121 servernickname resumeposition
      Where resumeposition is between 0 and filesize, and is required.
      Connection is established, and Server DCC gets the file.

    Get Protocol
      Client connects to Server and sends:
      130 clientnickname filename
      When Server receives this, it sends:
      131 servernickname filesize
      When Client receives this, it sends:
      132 clientnickname resumeposition
      Where resumeposition is between 0 and filesize, and is required.
      Connection is established, and Server DCC sends the file.

      Notes:
      a) The Get protocol has been implemented in this way mainly
         because I'm assuming:
         1) The client may not be able to open a socket to listen
            for and accept a connection (firewall etc.)
         2) The DCC server may only be able to listen for connections
            on port 59 (firewall etc.)
         3) Since the client was able to connect to the DCC server the
            first time, it should have no problem connecting to the
            same port again.

      b) Currently the Get Protocol is ONLY used by the fileserver when
         a user (who has connected to a fileserver via the DCC server)
         requests a "get filename". All other attempts to Get a file via
         the DCC server are ignored.

    If server receives unexpected information, or doesn't recieve info
    15 seconds after initial connection, it closes the connection.

    If service is unavailable, server sends:
    150 servernickname

    If server rejects connection, it sends:
    151 servernickname

136.Fixed timer().time bug.
137.Fixed $duration() bug.
138.Can now specify multiple @window names with the "menu" prefix in
    remote scripts, eg.:

    menu @info,@test,@blah {
      squawk:/echo squawk!
    }

139.Fixed gpf when using /close for certain types of windows in
    remote events.
140.Fixed /links not displaying info correctly when only retrieving
    partial info.
141.Fixed text wrap bug when a window is minimized.
142.To force /uwho to lookup a users idletime/awayinfo/etc. you can
    now use /uwho nick nick (just like /whois).
143.Added $editbox(window) identifier which returns contents of editbox
    for the specified window.
144./splay can now play LFN filenames.
145.Fixed appending _ to a filename when a dir of the same name
    exists (excluding .extension)
146.Enhanced /font command, can now change font by specifying
    parameters, eg. /font 712 ms sans serif

    /font [-a|-s|window] <fontsize> <fontname>

147.Added support for IRCnet's 005 numeric.

21/04/1997 - mIRC v5.02

Changes:
1.Fixed Alt-Gr key for non-UK/US keyboards.
2.Fixed joining a channel in channel folder.
3.Perform section now performs after MOTD is completely processed,
  and the Channels Folder now pops up after the perform section is
  completed.
4.Now handles numeric 437 Nick/channel is temporarily unavailable.
5.Fixed long server version bug (yeesh).
6.Added .ln property to $sline() to return line number of selected
  item.
7.Fixed /aline/rline bug when a colour is specified.
8.Can now specify colour number without the "-c" prefix for /aline,
  /iline, and /rline.
9.Fixed bugs in !nick filename.
10.Fixed $scriptdir in on LOAD/START events.
11.Fixed loadbuf/savebuf gpf with invalid parameters.
12.Now uses a tabbed dialog for aliases/popups/remote so you can
   switch between them easily.
13.Now adds lines to custom windows using "normal" text colour.
14.Can now use nickname in $query(), returns $null if not in query
   with nickname.
15.Improved Control-Tab routine for tabbed dialogs.
16.Fixed ! remote halt suffix bug.
17.Improved Find Text routine in APR dialog.
18.Fixed an old bug in the {} bracket counting routine.
19.Added a "{}" button to APR dialog to check if the {} count in
   the current script is correct.
20.Fixed mIRCLink INI file bug.
21.Changed toolbar appearance, also toolbar button colours now
   appear correctly under different colour setups.
22.Changed switchbar appearance, also added mini-icons to buttons.
23.Fixed /sline command.
24.Fixed /play not allowing following commands to be processed.
25.Fixed up/down keys in custom window editbox.
26.Improved /loadbuf and /savebuf, can now specify a range of lines.
   eg. /loadbuf 5-25 @moo moo.txt
       /savebuf 1-50 @moo moo.txt
27.Fixed Next/Timestamp conflict in system menu.
28.Fixed finger server problem with unix fingers (?)
29.Can now use %variable for menuITEM or menuTITLE, if the variable
   is not defined, the menu item or entire submenu is not displayed.
30.Changed popup menu routines in various places to accomodate 31.
31.Added "menu" prefix for use in scripts. Allows you to add sub-
   menus to the standard menus:

   menu status {
     <menuitems>
   }

   You can also add sub-menus to the channel, query, nicklist, and
   menubar popups. All loaded scripts are scanned for menus to add.
   For custom windows you can use:

   menu @window {
     [dclick /command]
     <menuitems>
   }

   You can specify @window as the popup filename when creating the
   window with the /window command. The dclick specifies the command
   that should be performed when a user double-clicks in a @window.
   The line-number of the line that was clicked is in $1 for listboxes.

32.Directory displayed to a user in a fileserver now appears as
   a root directory instead of the full directory path on the HD.
33.Added $version identifier which returns the mIRC version number
34.Added /ctcpreply <nick> <ctcp> [message] command.
35.Fixed /unload -rs switch.
36.Added "fixed width buttons" switchbar option.
37.Fixed bug in Installation Program which was resulting in mIRC
   reporting an install error for some people.
38.Added -s switch to /aline, /iline, and /rline, to select the
   line that was just added, or if you want currently selected lines
   to remain selected you can specify the -a switch instead.
39.Fixed memory bug when processing lines in listboxes.
40.Can now also use Alt+APR to switch quickly between tabs in the
   editor dialog.
41.Added $mircini and $ddename identifiers.
42.Now checks for and prevents double-separators in popup menus.
43.DCC Send/Get switchbar buttons now turn light grey when the
   transfer has finished.
44.Optimized DCC Send/Get switchbar buttons progress display routine.
45.Fixed /window [x y [w h]] bug.
46.Fixed text bolding in mark/copy.
47.mIRC now converts old remote .ini files when they are loaded, each
   section is loaded and automatically converted. Removed "convert"
   menu option. Same for /load command.
48.Added on DISCONNECT event, eg.: on 1:DISCONNECT:/echo *gack!*
49.Tooltips should now display correctly under different setups.
50.Fixed small connect retry bug.
51.Fixed window sizing problems when main mirc window is minimized.
52.If "show queries in active window" is checked, private actions
   now appear correctly in a channel window.
53.Added .mrc script file extension to the file dialogs extensions
   list.
54.Added colours toolbar button.
55.Can now get and read long filenames in fileserver.
56.When you press a function key and all windows are minimized, mIRC
   defaults to using the status window.
57.Fixed gpf bug with on start/load/connect combo and /loading files.
   The on connect event now triggers *after* normal processing of the
   End of MOTD raw event.
58.Fixed $readini -n switch.

02/04/1997 - mIRC v5.0

Changes:
1.Fixed /sound command when used with channels which have
  a . in their name.
2.Title of custom menubar now updates when /loading popup.
3.There's no longer a limit on the number of items in a
  popup menu (apart from the editbox limitation).
4.Fixed /finger bug.
5.Fixed /ignore bug.
6.Fixed $ial() bug.
7.If "show query in active window" is checked actions should
  now appear in the active window.
8.Fixed $online identifier.
9.Fixed problem with /sound when the sounds directory contains
  a space in its name.
10.Fixed notify not being timestamped in certain situations.
11.Added option to strip control codes from log files.
12.Fixed /echo -a gpfing when there's no active window.
13.Added $target identifier.
14.The active item for popups has been removed, only exists
   for the menu bar popup now.
15.Highlighted nickname in channel nick listbox remains highlighted
   after a nick change.
16.Fixed insert/delete keys in urls list window.
17.Fixed $lines() and $read line counting.
18.Added ignore button to DCC Chat/Get dialogs which allows you to
   discard and ignore all incoming Chats/Gets from a user for 30
   seconds.
19.Changed IRC Servers interface in setup dialog.
20.Added invisible mode option to setup dialog.
21.Changed dialogs to use standard dialog font.
22.Added Midi directory setting in sounds dialog.
23.Added $group(number/name) identifier.
   $group(N)          group name
   $group(N).status   on/off
   $group(name)       same as .status
24.Added ON UNOTIFY event, works the same as ON NOTIFY
   except triggers when a user leaves IRC.
25.Can now specify the -n switch with $readini to prevent a line
   from being evaluated.
26.[removed]
27.Delayed Op and Unban now check to see if 1) you're on the channel,
   2) you're an Op, 3) the user exists, before acting.
28.You can now specify different files for each popup menu.
29.Can now save alias/popup/remote files as plain text (non-INI
   format) by not specifying an .ini file extension.

   NOTE: You can't save multiple sections to a plain text file!
   So if you have all remote sections in remote.ini and want to
   save them as plain text, you'll need to save each section to
   a separate file. Same goes for aliases/popups.

30.Fixed channel folder join/names bug.
31.Fixed email address stripping of control chars.
32.The delayed unban now prevents duplicate addresses being
   added to the unban list.
33.Fixed gpf bug when popup item starts with {.
34.[removed]
35.Notify/Unotify now trigger correctly.
36.Query window now displays address of user in titlebar.
37.Added $mididir identifier.
38.Fixed gpf bug when extraneous $+ are used in combination
   with bracketed identifiers.
39.Added custom window creation/manipulation tools.

   /window [-abcdelnorsx] @name [x y [w h]] [/command] [popup.txt] [font [size]]

   Switches:
     a = activate window
     b = update horizontal scrollbar width for listbox
     c = close window
     d = open as desktop window
     e = editbox
     l = listbox
     n = minimize window
     o = if opened on desktop, place ontop
     r = restore window
     s = use a sorted list
     x = maximize window

   @name     = window name (must prefix with a @)
   x,y,w,h   = left top width height
   popup.txt = popup filename, loaded when needed
               (must be a plain non-ini text file)
   /command  = default command
   font/size = font name and size (defaults to status window font)

   You can also use /window to manipulate some of the above
   settings for an existing custom window.

   You can use the following commands to manipulate lines:

   /aline [-cN] @name text     add line to list
   /dline       @name N        delete Nth line
   /iline [-cN] @name N text   insert line at Nth line
   /rline [-cN] @name N text   replace Nth line
   /sline       @name N        selects Nth line

   Where -cN allows you to specify the line colour.

   You can use the $window(N/@name) identifier to access the
   following custom window information:

   $window(N).x      left
   $window(N).y      top
   $window(N).w      width
   $window(N).h      height
   $window(N).state  minimized/maximized/normal

   To access the lines in a custom window you can use:

   $line(@name,N)    returns Nth line
   $sline(@name,N)   returns Nth selected line (listbox only)

40.Can now /load popups with these switches:
   -ps status popup
   -pc channel popup
   -pq query/chat popup
   -pn nicklist popup
   -pm menubar popup
41.Fixed indexing bug with alias/popup/remote processing.
42.[removed]
43.mIRC now stores relative (instead of full) file/directory
   paths, if a path lies inside the mIRC directory.
44.Made (most) buttons the same size.
45.Parameter identifiers changed to:

   $n     for parameter n
   $n-n2  for parameters n to n2
   $n-    for parameters n onwards

   $parm has also been discontinued, you can use the above
   to refer to remote parameters from now on.

   Note: This version of mIRC still supports the old $1 and
   $parm for now but only the above is documented.

46.Added (v1 isvo v2) comparison to check if user v1 has a
   voice on channel v2.
47.Fixed $numeric not being set when matching any raw event.
48.Added /loadbuf and /savebuf commands.

    /loadbuf [lines] <window> <filename>
    /savebuf [lines] <window> <filename>

   Where [lines] indicates the number of lines you want to
   load/save from the end of the file.
49.Can now prevent message display for /ignore, /auto, and
   /protect with the . prefix.
50.Alias/popup/remote dialogs can now be resized and will
   remember their size/position.
51.The alias, popup, and remote dialogs have been redesigned
   to cope with various improvements (see below).
52.You can now load multiple alias files.
53.To /load, /unload, /save files you can use:
     /load <-a|-pscqnm|-ruvs> filename
     /unload <-a|-rs> filename
     /save <-pscqnm|-ruv> filename
54.The remote dialog and script routines have been improved.
   The format of definitions has changed to:

   ctcp 1:PING:/echo etc.
   on   1:JOIN:#:/echo etc.
   raw  1:*:/echo etc.

   This allows all of these to be intermixed in a single
   script file. The remote dialog has been altered to cater
   for only 3 types of files: Users, Variables, and Scripts.

   You can load as many script files as you require. Events
   will trigger all script files as independent scripts.

   You can also define aliases in a script by using the
   "alias" prefix:

     alias test /echo this is a test alias!

   You can also enter initialization commands which are run
   when a script is *first* loaded by using:

   on 1:LOAD:{ etc. }

   And initialization commands which are run whenever mIRC
   is first run (and loads scripts automatically) by using:

   on 1:START:{ etc. }

   The START section also runs after the LOAD section when
   a script is first loaded.

   If a script is loaded from within the remote dialog, auto-
   run commands are not executed until the dialog is closed.

   The above allows a whole script of ctcps, events, and raw
   and it's related aliases and initializations to be edited
   and distributed in one file.

   Note: mIRC automatically splits your current remote.ini
   into separate files and translates the ctcp, event, and raw
   entries into the new format. To convert old files into the
   new format use the Convert option in the Remote dialog and
   load them in as an INI file because mIRC will need the
   header info eg. [commands] [events] [raw] to know how to
   translate them.

55.Added on INPUT event which is triggered when a user enters
   text into an editbox and presses enter:

   on 1:INPUT:/echo you entered $1-

   You can use /halt to prevent mIRC from processing the text.

56.$chan is now $null if an event is not a channel event.
57.Can now add/change/remove aliases from a specific alias
   file (not script files) with:

     /alias [filename] <aliasname> [commands]

   When adding/replacing/removing an alias, all alias files
   are purged of the specified alias.

58.If a file doesn't exist mIRC doesn't create it if there's
   no information to save to it.
59.Now allows empty lines in aliases and scripts.
60.#group names in scripts now use "on" and "off" instead of
   "start" and "disabled" (conversion program will translate
   these automatically).
61.Added script #group indexing to speed up group processing.
62.Added on USERMODE event.

   on 1:USERMODE:/echo Set usermode to $1-

63.Can now /echo =nick etc.
64.Added on CONNECT event which triggers when the end of an
   MOTD is reached after connecting to a server (same as the
   perform section).

   on 1:CONNECT:/echo connected!

65.[removed]
66.Fixed "maximum sends" check not working in fileserver.
67.Added $inmidi returns true if midi is playing, false if not.
68.Added on MIDIEND event which triggers when a midi finishes
   playing (but not if you stop it by playing another midi or
   using /splay stop).

   on 1:MIDIEND:/echo finished playing midi file!

69.Fixed /halt not returning $null.
70.Fixed odd popup menus gpf bug.
71.Added Find option to popup menu in urls list window.
72.Fixed processing of incoming server NOTICES which don't
   have the source and target specified.
73.Can now use & character as a wildcard one word match, eg.

     &     lines would &
     These lines would match

74.Now displays notices and messages to @#channel correctly (?)
75.Fixed window focus bug bringing main mIRC window to front when
   selecting a window.
76.Server pong echos should display correctly.
77.Speeded up URL-from-text extracting routine.
78.Can now use a nickname as well a number in $send() $get()
   $chat() and $fserv() eg. $send(madgoat).file
79.Fixed offline timers bug.
80.If a remote event calls an alias, that remote events script file
   is searched first for a matching alias and if no match is found,
   all other alias and script files are searched.
81.on DNS $nick is set to $null if no nick is specified.
82.Fixed midi playing bug where mIRC thought that a midi file was
   still playing when it had actually finished.
83.Fixed /play stop bug (?)
84.[removed]
85.Removed switches: own messages are higlighted, actions are purple,
   and windows colours.
86.Added colour configuration dialog. You will notice that colours
   for certain types of information have changed slightly, mainly
   because standardization was required in various places. You can't
   create a custom colour yet, might be added to a future version.
87.Added send/get fail remote events:

   on 1:SENDFAIL:*.txt:/echo failed to send $filename to $nick
   on 1:GETFAIL:*.txt:/echo failed to get $filename from $nick

88.Added $script and $scriptdir which return the file and dir name
   of the currently executing remote script file.
89.Improved $gettok(), can now specify n1-n2 for the number of
   tokens you want returned, eg:

   //echo $gettok(a.b.c.d.e,2,46)     returns 2nd token
   //echo $gettok(a.b.c.d.e,2-,46)    returns tokens 2 onwards
   //echo $gettok(a.b.c.d.e,2-4,46)   returns tokens 2 to 4

90.Added $comchan(Nick,N) identifier, returns channels which both
   you and Nick are on. $comchan(Nick,N).op returns $true if you're
   an Op on that channel.
91.In alias, popup, and remote dialogs can now use Alt+1,2,3,4 etc.
   to switch to a script.
92.Added support for "!nick filename" wave/midi get requests. If
   mIRC receives a request as a private message and you don't have
   a private window open with that person, a new window is not
   opened, but instead the request is displayed in the status window.

   Also has an option to send your own "!nick filename" requests
   as private messages (on by default). This is only done when you
   are on a channel and you specify a "nick" that is on that channel,
   and a .wav or .mid filename.

93.Notifies are now queued and only one line of 500 chars is sent
   at a time. When a reply for that line is received, the next line
   is sent. Once replies for all queued lines have been received,
   the notify results are displayed.
94.The parameter positions of the following identifiers have been
   standardized to fall in line with other identifiers:

   $left(text,N)
   $mid(text,S,N)
   $right(text,N)
   $str(text,N)
   $nick(#,N)
   $nopnick(#,N)
   $nvnick(#,N)
   $opnick(#,N)
   $snick(#,N)
   $vnick(#,N)

   The old formats are still handled but only the new formats will
   be documented.
95.Fixed small /list command bug.
96.mIRC help file now remembers it's last position/size.
97.Can now use the @ must be op prefix with CTCP remote events that
   occur on channels.
98.Notify list now allows you to use an address as well as a nickname,
   this will only work on IRC servers that allow this.
99.Removed the /commands command, replaced with /ctcps command.
100.Fixed switchbar DCC Button Progress indicator being updated too
    often which might have slowed mIRC down with multiple DCCs.
101.Added Wizard which now pops up when a user has problems connecting,
    eg. unable to get/resolve local host, unable to resolve/connect to
    irc server, or being disconnected from a server before the MOTD is
    displayed.
102.Fixed small /play bug, was evaluating identifiers in lines when
    it shouldn't have been.
103.Fixed /titlebar memory bug.

09/01/1997 - mIRC v4.72

Changes:
1.Fixed Windows Colours option.
2.Fixed gpf on joining channel with control codes in topic (?)
3.Fixed/improved channel mode handling.
4.Can specify a channel key in default channel listbox
  as first word of a topic for a channel.
5.Fixed $+ at end of a line gpfing.
6.Fixed /run and long filenames with spaces.
7.Highlighting text in editbox and then Control-K now places
  cursor right after first control character.
8.Fixed gpf in Channel dialog when listing invalid ban info.
9.Fixed display of fonts for certain character sets.
10.URL catcher now doesn't copy any BURC control characters
   attached to a URL.
11.Fixed checking for recursive custom identifier calls.
   (lack of check was leading to gpfs)
12.$null is now handled better when used with $+.
13.Install program now warns if you are about to install to
   a directory path with spaces in its name and recommends
   installing to a path without spaces.
14.Fixed /server N command.
15.Added $online identifier which returns number of seconds
   elapsed on your online timer (ie. the one in the timer
   dialog).
16.Now allows you to call custom identifiers with parameters
   that have a $null value.
17.Added -k switch to /ignore command, allows you to ignore
   BURC codes from someone's text. This works for private,
   notice, kick, part, etc. messages.
18.Fixed marking text that is bold/underlined.
19.Fixed bug with a script not halting properly and continuing
   to process script following it (?)
20.The command parser wasn't stripping out leading and following
   spaces for tokens in a command which may have resulted in
   odd behavior when processing scripts.
21.Control-Shift-Tab for switching between channel windows
   has been removed since it was conflicting with the normal
   windows default for tabbing backwards through windows.
22.Fixed /ruser nick! command, was removing all entries that
   being with "nick" as opposed to "nick!".
23.Added "Edit" button to channels folder dialog.
24.Fixed $maddress being chopped in ON BAN event.
25.Fixed pressing enter in DCC Send dialog to change directories.
26.Fixed finger command (wasn't sending @ prefix when fingering
   an address without a userid).
27.Added $vnick() identifier to list voiced nicks, and $nvnick()
   identifier to list non-op/non-voice nicks.
28.Added ON UNBAN, works the same as ON BAN.
29.Added ON VOICE/DEVOICE, and $vnick refers to nickname.
30.Fixed bug in installer.
31.Invites to non-channels are now ignored.
32.Fixed text being indented in User and Variable remote sections.
33.Fileserver now let's you cd into a directory with an extension.
34.Changed $findfile() identifier, now allows you to specify
   Nth file eg. $findfile(dir,filespec,N).
35.Fixed DCC percent progress wrapping to zero when sending
   large files (?)
36.If a DCC Get directory doesn't exist, the default get directory
   is used instead, if that doesn't exist, the mIRC directory is
   used.
37.Fixed /ignore for actions.
38.A query window no longer opens for a sound request, the sound
   message is displayed in the status window instead.
39.Added skip MOTD warning.
40.Fixed Menu Bar popup menu not working when all windows
   are closed.
41.Improved Tabs in tabbed dialogs to look more 95ish.
42.Standardized Alias, Popup, and Remote dialogs.
43.Resources for popup menus are now allocated just before a
   popup menu is displayed and are freed immediately after it
   is closed thus conserving resources.
44.Added $dlevel identifier for remote default user level.
45.Added $timer(N) identifier.
   $timer(N)       timer id
   $timer(N).com   command
   $timer(N).time  time
   $timer(N).reps  repetitions
   $timer(N).delay delay interval
   $timer(N).type  online/offline
46.Added option to show DCCs in Switchbar.
47.Now allows - character in identd userid.
48.Fixed invalid RAW definition format gpfing.
49.Fixed Beeping when right-clicking in a listbox.
50.Windows minimized to the switchbar don't appear as icons
   first anymore.
51.Wrote my own window list handler, so the Windows list
   now displays desktop windows as well. Also only the first
   50 characters of a windows title are displayed.
52.ON BAN/UNBAN now don't allow wildcard matches of ip/non-ip
   addresses, as well as addresses ending in @*.
53.Setting focus on windows has been improved.
54.Can now use Control-Space to cycle through channel windows.
55.Fixed $mask() when an address with wildcards is specified.

09/12/1996 - mIRC v4.7

Changes:
1.Fixed time bug (?)
2.ISON now displays a message if user doesn't exist.
3.Fixed small DDE problem.
4.Fixed mIRC defaulting to port 6667 when reconnecting
  to a server.
5.DCC Send/Get window titlebar now immediately displays 0% at
  start of transfer, and only displays 100% when transfer is
  completely finished (was rounding up to 100% before).
6.Fixed small bug in fserve DCC send.
7.Fixed /beep command.
8.Bytes/Size display in alias/popup/remote windows are now
  updated only a few times a second to decrease flicker.
9.Finished reorganizing identifiers-related code.
10.Fixed $away updating after you disconnect and reconnect.
11.Fixed Text Assist bug (?)
12.Can now do /sound [on|off] to enable/disable sound requests.
13.Added $server(N).property identifier to access servers list.
   $server(N)        address.
   $server(N).desc   description
   $server(N).port   port
   $server(N).group  group
14.Added $ial(mask,N) identifier to acces IAL.
   $ial(mask,N)      full address.
   $ial(mask,N).nick nickname
   $ial(mask,N).user user id
   $ial(mask,N).host host
   $ial(mask,N).addr user@host
   This returns the Nth address matching "mask" in the IAL.
   Specify zero for total number of matching addresses. To
   scan the whole of the IAL you can use $ial(*,N). If N is
   zero, the total number of matching entries is returned.
15.[removed]
16.Added /identd [on|off] [userid] command.
17.Fixed bug in /ignore address matching.
18.Can now use [type] parameter with /auto to look up
   users address (like ignore).
19.Channels, notify, and urls list listboxes now have a horizontal
   scroll bar added to them.
20.Added $url(N).property identifier to access urls list.
   $url(N)        address
   $url(N).desc   description
   $url(N).group  group
21.When using /sound and /wavplay, the Waves directory and ALL of
   its subdirectories are searched for the specifed wave filename.
   This allows users to organize their sounds into subdirectories
   without having to worry about directory paths.
22.Added 1:ON DNS:/echo $nick $iaddress $naddress $raddress event.
   If /dns <nick> was used then $nick refers to <nick> otherwise
   it refers to your own nickname. $iaddress refers to the ip
   address, and $naddress refers to the named address. $raddress
   is the resolved address. If $raddress is $null then that means
   that the address could not be resolved.
23.Fixed @ (must be channel Op) prefix for remote definitions
   preventing a definition from being performed if the event is
   not a channel event. eg. @1:ON TEXT:*:*:/etc. which reacts
   to private messages as well as channel messages.
24.Added $idle identifier which returns same idle time as that
   returned by ctcp USERINFO or FINGER.
25.Added $numeric identifier which refers to the number of the
   raw event that matched a remote definition.
26.[removed]
27.Ctcp ping reply now displays ping time in hr/min/sec format.
28.Fixed memory bug in Tab display routine, also improved display
   of tabs slightly.
29.Added 1:ON ERROR:*text*:/echo $parms event.
30.Added Extension<->directory association in DCC Options dialog.
31.Fixed empty line in editboxes in options dialog causing
   following lines to be lost.
32.DCC Get dialog now displays listbox of directories from the
   extension associations for quick directory selection for
   miscellaneous file types.
33.Servers.ini file is reloaded each time the Setup window is
   opened to make sure that any changes made to it externally
   are available. eg. if someone downloads a servers.ini file.
34.Now allows you to configure a separate Popup menu for use
   in a channel window. If no channel popup menu is defined it
   defaults to using the status window popup menu in a channel.
35.When marking text for copying, the marked block is not cleared
   if new text is printed in the window, instead the scrollbar
   is updated to indicate there is new text below. If you were
   at the bottom of the buffer when you started copying, mIRC
   will automatically scroll down to the bottom of the buffer
   after you finish copying.
36.I added an /echo -a switch which echos to the active window.
   If the active window is not a status, channel, or query/chat
   window, it defaults to the status window.
37.For remote events that have no associated $chan value, $chan
   refers to a channel that both you and the user that triggered
   the event are on, on which you are an Op.
38.Fixed small bug with /set.
39.Can now do /log [on|off] [windowname].
40.If a user hasn't entered a UserID for the Identd server or if
   their current userid contains invalid characters, mIRC asks
   them for a new userid. Permitted characters:

      .    (0x2E)
      0-9  (0x30-0x39)
      A-Z  (0x41-0x5A)
      _    (0x5F)
      a-z  (0x61-0x7A)

41.Added $wildsite remote identifier which returns the address of
   the user who triggered the event in the form *!*@host.domain,
   added mainly to speed things up since *!* $+ $site is used a lot.
42.Added /perform [on|off] command to turn on/off perform section.
43.Speeded up text display routine slightly.
44.Added $ticks identifier which returns the number of ticks
   since your O/S was first started.
45.Ignoring CTCPs doesn't ignore actions anymore.
46.Added double-click alias option for Notify window.
47.Now using a new indexing method to speed up alias, popup, and
   remote script processing.
48.Using an /if as the first command in a $read line now works.
49.In channel windows, Shift-TAB now switches the focus between
   the editbox and the nicknames listbox.
50.Control-Shift-Tab now cycles through channel windows.
51.Server notices are now displayed in purple.
52.Added "Timestamp" switch to window system menus.
53.mIRC now ignores DCC sends/chats to port 19.
54.Fixed window focus problem when MDI/desktop windows open (?)
55.Can raise a number to the power of another using ^ operator.
   eg. set %x 2 ^ 8
56."End of /who list" now displays who you were doing a /who on.
57.Now handles DALnets 310 numeric.
58.Added skip MOTD on connect switch.
59.Modified Event Beeps interface a bit.
60.Speeded up variable lookup routine and [] processing.
61.Rewrote text mark/copy routine.
62./timestamp [-a|e|s] [on|off] [window] is now used for turning
   on/off timestamping in windows. If only on/off is specified
   with no window, the global timestamp switched is turned on/off.
   -s = for status window
   -a = for active window
   -e = for every window
63.For ctcp commands, $chan is now filled with a channel name if
   you received the ctcp via a channel.
64./flood now ignores *!*@site.
65.$active identifier now returns window names more intelligently.
66./return can now return both numbers and text.
67.For servers that specify who placed a ban in the ban list, mIRC
   now displays this info in the /channel dialog ban list.
68.$server now returns $null if you are not currently connected
   to a server.
69.Added $fserv(N), improved $chat(N), $get(N), $send(N).

    $chat(N)           nickname
    $chat(N).ip        ip address
    $chat(N).status    active, waiting, inactive

    $fserv(N)          nickname
    $fserv(N).ip       ip address
    $fserv(N).status   active, waiting, inactive
    $fserv(N).cd       current directory

    $get(N)            nickname
    $get(N).ip         ip address
    $get(N).status     active, waiting, inactive
    $get(N).file       filename
    $get(N).size       filesize
    $get(N).rcvd       bytes rcvd
    $get(N).cps        chars per second
    $get(N).pc         percent complete

    $send(N)           nickname
    $send(N).ip        ip address
    $send(N).status    active, waiting, inactive
    $send(N).file      filename
    $send(N).size      filesize
    $send(N).sent      bytes sent
    $send(N).lra       last rcvd ack
    $send(N).cps       chars per second
    $send(N).pc        percent complete

70.Can now create your own identifiers, eg. in the aliases section
   create an alias:

     add { %x = $1 + $2 | return %x }

   And then use it in a command //echo Total is: $add(4,21)
   Can define as many parameters as you want: $add(1,2,...,N).
   Built-in identifiers of the same name have priority.
71.Added "default port" setting to setup/options dialog.
72.Can now use /timer [-o] etc. to start an offline timer. Offline
   timers are not stopped if you are disconnected from the server,
   however all other timers are. If you are not connected to a server
   and you try to start a timer, it defaults to being an offline timer.
73.Chat and Query MDI switches are now separate.
74.Alias, Popup, and Remote editboxes now remember their cursor
   line positions and jump to them automatically for each window.
75.Added "Desktop" switch to a window's system menu to toggle
   MDI/desktop display of the window.
76.Can now specify a window name with /clear [window].
77.If an address that is in the auto-unban list of the /ban command
   is unbanned manually, it is removed from the unban list.
78.PONGs from users are now ignored.
79.Using new method to lookup Local Host and IP Address. mIRC now
   connects directly to server and issues a /userhost nickname to
   lookup users address and then does a /dns to resolve the IP
   address. This means that a user isn't prevented from connecting
   to a server if there are any local host lookup problems and it
   also means mIRC will be using a named address that has been
   verified by the IRC server so there should be no problem looking
   up the IP address. The DCC Send/Chat toolbar buttons are enabled
   the moment the lookup is completed successfully.
80.Now uses /userhost instead of /whois to look up addresses from
   the server.
81.The /run command now uses a different method to run files, it
   allows you to run files based on association as well.
     eg: /run notepad.exe readme.txt   or   /run readme.txt
   It also uses this new method to view .txt files in the help
   menu as well as in other parts of mIRC.
82.Can now do /who <channel> <address> and only users on the
   specified channel are displayed.
83.Fixed bug with variable not being evaluated if preceeded by
   the text "set" in a line.
84.Now also using new faster indexing method for IAL.
85.Fixed empty [ ] brackets gpfing.
86.Servers are no longer stored in memory but are looked up
   when needed from the servers.ini file.
87.DCC Send/Get completion info printed in status window now
   also includes time taken and cps.
88.Fixed "error sending data" message at end of DCC send.
89.Variables can handle spaces a bit better now eg. single
   spaces, preceeding spaces, etc.
90.Fixed "fake" PONG messages being displayed.
91.Added support for bold/underline/reverse characters. Can
   use Ctrl-B,U,R to insert these characters into an editbox.
   If you first mark text in the editbox, it will be enclosed
   in starting and ending control characters, otherwise one code
   will be inserted. If you hold down the shift-key, two codes
   are inserted and the cursor positioned between them. You can
   also use Control-O to insert a reset character which turns off
   all the above settings.
92.Added support for colour characters, use Control-K to insert
   a colour control char (0x03) into text in an editbox.

   eg. if * is the control char then:

    *     Selects Default Text and Background
    *1    Selects Colour 1 for Text, Default Background
    *1,5  Selects Colour 1 for Text, Colour 5 for Background

   Colours currently range from 0 to 15.
93.Added flood protect options tab to options dialog.
94.For an ON QUIT event, a users name is now removed from
   all channel listboxes *after* this remote event has been
   processed, not before it.
95.Added $strip(text) identifier which strips out all bold,
   underline, reverse, and colour control codes from text.
96.File dialog defaults to showing ini, txt, or wav files
   depending on file being selected.
97.Fixed multiple IRCop-greeting bug thingy.
98.Fixed notify update bug.
99.Fixed ON TEXT $chan being filled with users nickname when
   trigger is a private message.
100.Added a switchbar to allow easy switching between windows.
    If you click on a button with the left mouse button and
    the window is minimized, it is restored, if it is already
    restored, it is minimized. If you click with the right mouse
    button, the windows system menu pops up. You can turn the
    switchbar on/off in Options/Extras dialog.
101./ban won't allow you to initiate a ban if you don't have Ops.
102./amsg and /ame now don't send an individual message for each
    channel etc.
103.Page up/down now works in channel listbox.
104.Channels dialog, "Limited to" option allows more digits.
105.ctcp ECHO is no longer replied to.
106.ctcp PING no longer replies to non-numeric values and numeric
    values longer than 25 characters.
107.Added $usermode identifier.
108.Channel topics are now stripped of control characters.
109.ON MODE event has changed format to:

    1:ON MODE:#channel:/commands...

    And it no longer enforces modes. $parms is now filled with
    the mode change that was made.
110.Under a 256 colour display the orange colour appears light brown
    instead of orange, all other colours should look exactly the
    same under different colour displays.
111.Fixed ON BAN double-wildcard-string-matching. Was giving false
    matches in certain situations eg. * at end of a string.
112.Changed ordering of masks to:

    Type 0: *!user@host.domain
    Type 1: *!*user@host.domain
    Type 2: *!*@host.domain
    Type 3: *!*user@*.domain
    Type 4: *!*@*.domain
    Type 5: Nick!user@host.domain
    Type 6: Nick!*user@host.domain
    Type 7: Nick!*@host.domain
    Type 8: Nick!*user@*.domain
    Type 9: Nick!*@*.domain

    The mask types for all routines and identifiers are now identical.
    /guser /dns etc. commands all default to type 6 which is the same
    mask as before.
113.When mIRC is in the process of doing a channel listing and it
    receives a "server load to high" numeric 263, it now resets the
    channels list button and other related parameters.
114.Ignores DCCs to a channel.
115./userhost with no reply is now displayed.
116.Added "on top" option for switchbar.
117.Added $duration(seconds) identifier.
118.Added $nofile(filename) which removes the filename and
    only returns any remaining path.
119.Added $findfile(dir,filename) which searches the specified
    directory and its subdirectories for the specified file and
    returns the full path and filename if it is found.
120.Added /ial [on|off] command.
121.Added token handling identifiers:

    $addtok(text,token,C)     - adds a token to the end of text but
                                only if it's not already in text.
    $findtok(text,token,C)    - returns Nth position of token in text
    $gettok(text,N,C)         - returns Nth token in text
    $instok(text,token,N,C)   - inserts token into Nth position in text
                                even if it already exists in text.
    $remtok(text,token,C)     - removes 1 matching token from text
    $reptok(text,token,new,C) - replaces 1 matching token with new
                                token in text

    $gettok() replaces $token(), however $token() is still
    supported for this version.

122./ulist now searches the whole of the users level list for
    a matching level.
123.A user level can now be a word, for example:

    2,5,op,9,prot:*!*@host

    op:ON JOIN:#:/mode $chan +o $nick

    Named levels are = levels ie. they work exactly the same
    way that = levels work.
124.Added strip options to options dialog. These strip out
    control characters from incoming notices and messages.
125.Fixed memory/socket reading bug.
126.Pressing Enter in the parameters dialog without entering
    any text now returns $null.
127.Kick, Part, Quit messages have Control-O appended to them.
128.Improved channel MODE change handling, mIRC updates the
    mode settings itself so there's no longer a delay.
129.ON MODE reacts to initial mode lookup when mIRC first
    joins a channel.
130.Rewrote /auser & /guser routine. Code is cleaner, same
    speed, works better eg. doesnt allow redundant levels,
    and fixes bugs in the old routines.
131.Added wildcard halting of timers. eg. /timer?* off
132.Fixed messages to #host.mask.
133.Install program now only creates one backup directory and
    overwrites any files in it if they already exist.
134.Channels folder now also allows you to enter descriptions
    for channels.
135.Added $chan(N/#).property identifier:

    $chan(N/#)         channel name
    $chan(N/#).topic   topic
    $chan(N/#).mode    mode
    $chan(N/#).key     +k key
    $chan(N/#).limit   +l limit

    $mode() and $topic() are no longer supported. However
    $channel() is still supported for this version.
136.Support for the :> redirection in remote definitions has
    been removed.
137.Added /strip [+-burc] command.
138./wavplay command has been replaced with /splay command,
    which can play both .wav and .mid sound files. Can also
    use "/splay stop" to stop a .mid file playing. /wavplay
    is still supported for now. 
139.The /sound command and related options (ON NOSOUND, etc.)
    can now work with .mid files as well as .wav files.
140.Improved/simplified code in the install program.

07/09/1996 - mIRC v4.6

Changes:
1.Now handles various combinations of : and { at the
  beginning of a remote definition.
2.Fixed :> redirection.
3.Fixed separator handling in popup menus.
4.ON SNOTICE can now be prevented from displaying info.
5.Now does NOT evaluate identifiers in a command issued
  from the command line. If you want to force identifiers
  to be evaluated, you can prefix the command with two
  // instead of just one /.
6.Fixed $1 $2 etc. not working with Function keys.
7.Fixed $dir and $hfile identifiers.
8.Fixed ON KICK missing $parms.
9.Fixed variables section not being saved if commands
  section is empty.
10.Fixed DCC Windows not being minimized properly.
11.Explicit support for the DO ctcp command has been
   removed. If a user wants to use a DO in their ctcp
   definitions, they would have to specifically make
   mIRC perform any parameters that another user sends
   as commands, eg.:

   1:DO:$parm2*

12.Fixed the -s switch in /echo.
13.Fixed $readini with missing parameters gpfing.
14.$read and $readini now return $null if a line isn't found.
15.Extended the functionality of [ ] so that if they enclose
   only a single parameter they will evaluate it even if it
   has already been evaluated. eg.:

   set %x %y
   set %y Hiya!
   /echo [ [ %x ] ]

16.DCC Send, Get, Chat, and Fserv now use different Icons.
17.The = switch in remote definitions 1:COMMAND:= wasn't
   working properly.
18.Fixed =$nick for on serv/chat.
19.Now handles site bans or masks for addresses that only
   have an x.x format instead of the usual x.x.x format.
20.Fixed Aliases "Save To" only saving to mIRC directory.
21.Fixed $asctime() gpf bug.
22.DDE USERS now prefixes nicknames with @ or + if necessary.
23.Now cannot use /writeini to remove items or sections, must
   use the /remini command which takes the same parameters.
24.Added $exists(filename) to check if a file exists,
   returns $true or $false.
25.Added -n switch to $read which prevents the line read in
   from being evaluated or parsed ie. it's treated as text.
26.Added /wallops <message> command.
27.Now supports DALnet /part #channel [message]. The message
   is limited to around 60 characters.
28.Fixed extra separator lines being added to certain popup
   menus occasionally.
29.Now allows you to DCC chat yourself.
30.Now saves URLs to the urls.ini file.
31.Added $maddress which specifies the currently matched
   user address for an event in the remote:

   1:TEST:/echo $fulladdress matched $maddress

   And added $maddress(address) which returns a matching
   address from the remote user list:
32.If the filename specified in $read has no path, it defaults
   to the mirc.exe directory (like all other commands).
33.Can now /load -r and /save -r (raw definitions).
34.Added Load/Save items to URLs pop menu which let you
   load/save any URL file.
35.Join/part/other text messages are now wrapped.
36.Can now press return in a multi-line editbox in the
   middle of a line without sending the text.
37.Added "Play wave" option to notify list which lets you
   choose a wave to play when a specific user joins IRC.
38.Added "show notices in active window" option in IRC
   switches, and also improved the way notices are
   displayed.
39.Fixed memory bug in fileserver.
40.Improved memory allocation in copy/paste routine.
41.Displays /whowas reply with @ in address.
42.The aliases for .hlp files added to the Help menu now have
   the lowest command precedence ie. if an existing alias or
   command of the same name exists, the .hlp alias is never run.
43.Now also adds .txt files to the dynamic help menu.
44.The IAL is updated a bit more intelligently to allow
   remote definitions to access nicknames that have just
   joined/left a channel.
45.Fixed time-out gpf bug which affected Send/Get/FServ.
46.Now triggers ON PART when *you* part a channel.
47.Added $longip(IP address/long IP) which converts a dotted
   IP Address to a long IP, and vice-versa.
48.Fixed message not being wrapped when a query window
   first opens.
49.Fixed GPFs occurring when viewing URLs.
50.Fixed "me:" prefix for remote definitions.
51.Now supports a /list result with or without RPL_LISTSTART,
   to accomodate ircd 2.9.x.
52.Can now specify a filename when saving a window buffer.
53.Added option "Only show notifies in notify window".
54.Fixed "Bad Username" server reply if new user entered an
   invalid email address (the userid part was being used
   in the identd server).
55./echo 1 $asc($mid(3,1,hi there)) was returning 0 for a space,
   now returns 32.
56.Added "fast screen update" option to Extras dialog. This
   speeds up text printing by updating the screen after each
   "batch" of text instead of each line.
57.Moved "Ignore" to first position in Control dialog.
58.Added a new flood protection method. Just use
   /flood [on|off] to turn it on and off.
59.ISON notify lines are broken into less than 500 character
   lines now.
60.Added option "Show finger requests" to Options dialog
   in Servers section.
61.Fixed /oper with wrong password GPFing (?)
62.Prefixing a command with . prevents it from displaying
   its usual message (apart from error messages).
63.Fixed #$$?#="Enter a channel name:" type identifier.
64.Added ON WALLOPS event.

   1:ON WALLOPS:*text*:/command...

65.Fixed $true/$false/$null not working in certain
   comparisons.
66.Fixed info lines sometimes not being displayed in
   DCC Send/Get windows.
67./halt can now prevent the usual text output of raw
   numeric events (for most events).
68.Added $bnick identifier which refers to the nickname
   of the user being banned. This is not always filled
   since sometimes a nickname isn't specified with a
   banmask.
69.Now displays all user modes in status window titlebar.
70.Improved display of info for unknown numerics.
71.Fixed status window not closing when it's opened as
   desktop window and mIRC is exited.
72.Added $ulevel and $clevel which store the remote user
   and command levels that matched for an event.
73.The channels list is no longer stored internally but
   completely stored in and accessed from the channels.txt
   file.
74./remote [on|off] now affects the raw section as well.
75.Can now do /raw [on|off] to turn the raw section on
   and off.
76.Fixed mode event -l or -k skipping parameters in a
   mode change.
77.Notify window now displays note next to each nickname.
78.Tweaked INI routines.
79.When an error occurs in a DCC Send/Get/Chat, the DCC
   window is now closed if "auto-close" is selected in
   DCC options.
80.Added ON NOSOUND event triggered when someone sends you
   a SOUND request and the sound doesn't exist.

   1:ON NOSOUND:/msg $nick I don't have $filename

81.Changed toolbar buttons appearance.
82.Can now do /partall <message>
83.In ON NICK event when you change your nick, the $me
   identifier is only updated after remote definitions have
   been processed.
84.Now handles #,&,+ channels in aliases, popups, remote,
   dialogs, etc. This might affect a few things since &
   and + are now special prefix characters.
85.Now saves Servers in servers.ini file.
86.Tweaked DCC Send/Get routines and fixed problem with
   DCC windows not displaying the correct information in
   certain situations.
87.Standardized INI prefix to "n" for all saved information.
88.Results from a /who and /whois are now used to update
   the Internal Address List if the user is on a channel
   which you are on. eg. /who #channel.
89./speak now supports both Text Assist and Monologue.
90.Now displays #*.server.co.uk type messages properly.
91.Dropped files with spaces in the filename are now enclosed
   in "" quotes.
92.Fixed $parmN1-N2 bug.
93.Added "Font" item to Tools menu.
94.Clicking on "Unban" to unban addresses while in the
   Channels dialog now also sets the topic and modes if
   you've changed them.
95.Fixed bug with command prefix infront of if/else/elseif
   not working properly after { brackets.
96.Fixed RAW definitions being processed from the bottom
   of list upwards.
97.Supports /globops command for DALnet.
98.Can now prevent Quit messages from printing in status
   window with /halt.
99./userhost results now update IAL.
100.Improved /whois lookup code for /guser,/ruser,/finger,
    /dns, etc. commands that look up a users address.
101.Fixed sending multiple files with /dcc send command.
102.Added identifiers $mode(#) and $topic(#) which return
    the mode/topic of channels which you're currently on.
103.Added identifier $count(string1,string2) which returns
    the number of times string2 occurs in string1.
104.Speeded up remote processing a bit.
105.DCC Get problem for netcom users fixed.
106./links now displays links list properly on ircd 2.9.1 which
    sends the list in reverse order (are we surprised? ;)
107.Notify pause time between checks is now based on the total
    number of nicks in your notify list. The minimum pause time
    is 20 seconds, the maximum pause time is 50 seconds.
108.An alias cannot call *itself* anymore (except indirectly by
    calling another alias which calls it).
109.Improved editbox processing routine slightly: now processes
    text entered into it even if another window is active or
    on top of it.
110.Added /close -icfgms [nick1] [nickN] which closes windows of
    the specified type and nicknames. If no nicknames are given,
    all windows of the specified type are closed.
    i = only close inactive windows (doesnt apply to message windows)
    c = chat
    f = fserve
    g = gets
    m = message windows
    s = sends
111.Removed /closechats, /closefserves, /closedccs commands. These
    are replaced by the /close command.
112.Removed /maxdepth command.
113.Added $timestamp identifier returns time in [xx:xx] format.
114.Now allows you to enter multiple Ports (separated by commas) for
    each server. A random port will be picked at each connect.
115.Fixed DCC get time-out bug.
116.Removed "Show transfer progress as percent" switch, now only
    displays progress as a percentage.
117.Added "Display fileserver warning" switch to DCC options dialog.
118.Can now hold down the Shift key when tiling to tile vertically.
119.Fixed channel nickname list updating incorrectly with certain
    combinations of /mode results.
120.Now supports the ircd 2.9.1 ^G in a JOIN.
121.Now triggers the part event if you close a channel window
    manually by clicking on the close button.
122.The TAB key nickname list now only stores the nicknames of people
    who sent you normal query/channel messages, not ctcps.
123.Fixed /timer bug.
124./unset can now use wildcards, so /unset %test* will unset all
    variables beginning with %test.
125./alias now tells you which alias it's adding/removing.
126.Fixed gpf bug when low number values are used with time
    related commands/identifiers.
127.Calling an alias from another alias only passes the required
    parameters and not all parameters.
128.Now also handles .chat files which contain tab characters.
129.Negative value variables are now handled properly.
130.Reorganized identifiers-related code a bit (still in progress).
131.Fixed small bug in installation program.
132.Added Event beeps on/off switch in event beeps dialog, also
    added an /ebeeps [on|off] command.
133.Fixed MDI channel window listbox/scrollbar display bug.
134.Fixed /unset %var1 ... %varN.
135.Can now hold down Shift key when clicking "connect" toolbar
    button to force mIRC to connect to last server and port
    again, instead of picking a new server or port.
136.Fixed /return bug.

06/07/1996 - mIRC v4.52

Changes:
1.Fixed UTC permanently.
2.Fixed invalid ctcp replies causing a gpf.
3.Fixed /play bug.
4.Fixed scrollbars not being set properly in some windows
  when they first open.
5.Changed method of adding Icons to program manager
  in Installation program.
6.Fixed bug in Installation program when installing into
  directory names with spaces in them.
7.Fixed the COMMAND DDE topic to work better with certain
  types of poked commands.
8.Fixed bug with Popup menus when using { } brackets to
  enclose commands in different level menu items.
9.Fixed channels folder bug not allowing you to join a
  channel unless it was first added to the list.
10.In COMMANDS, $parm1 now refers to the actual COMMAND.
11.Server notices are now only displayed in status window.
12.Added $address(nickname,type) which scans the internal
   address list and returns a users address if it's found.
13.Added $logdir, $getdir, $wavedir, $mircdir which return
   current directory paths for each location.
14.Identifiers in remote/popup commands which call aliases
   are now evaluated before the alias is called.
15.Fixed ON NOTIFY not being triggered by notify event.
16.mIRC will no longer allow the DO ctcp command to execute
   at or below the default user level.
17.Now allows /group, /enable, and /disable commands to be
   used with the RAW section.
18.Changed description of Protect option which said it worked
   with addresses.. it can only work with nicknames.
19.Added $lf = chr(10) linefeed and $cr = chr(13) return.
20.Added $lof(filename) which returns the size in bytes of
   the specified file.
21.Added $pos(string,substring) which returns the position
   of substring in string.
22.Fixed bug in remote when parsing { } brackets, was miscounting
   and skipping definitions.
23.Made remote routines less strict in the type of format
   they expect in definitions. eg. the :> redirection.
24.The channels.txt file now does not store channels that
   were excluded in the "Hide" parameters section.
25.Added $send(N) and $get(N) which return currently open
   send/get windows.
26.Fixed $chat(N) so it only returns the nickname of the user.
27.Now allows multiple channel names as variables, eg:

   1:ON JOIN:%chan1,#mIRC,%chan2:etc...

   Or you can do:

   1:ON JOIN:%channels:etc...

   Where %channels is a list of channels separated by commas.
   You can't *combine* these though.
28.Added $mask(address,type) which returns the address
   with the specified mask.
29.Identifiers are now passed correctly when calling an alias
   from another alias.
30.Added command line parameter -ppassword for use with the
   -jchannel parameter. Specifies password to join channel.
31.Now supports the PASSWORD parameter in .chat files for
   joining a channel with a password.
32.Added ON CHATOPEN, CHATCLOSE, SERVOPEN, SERVCLOSE events.

   1:ON CHATOPEN:/commands...

33.Added /flushini <filename> which flushes the INI file to
   disk if it is currently being cached.
34.Added /closedccs, /closechats, and /closefserves, which
   close all inactive send/get, chat, and fserve windows.
35.Added $nopath(filename) identifier which returns only
   the filename with no path.
36.Fixed $$ not working when used in $$1 $$2 .. $$N.
37.Added $replace(string,substring,replacement)
   and $remove(string,substring).
38.Speeded up processing of identifiers and commands.
39.Speeded up display of info in /links window.
40.Fixed NT bug... it didn't like low-level assembly routines.
41.Fixed +v/-v mode display in channel nicknames listbox.
42.The default /list setting for minimum number of people
   on a channel has changed from zero to four.
43.Using /halt to prevent certain EVENTs from being displayed
   has been removed. It worked, but the order of display of
   information became non-intuitive and confusing. Will find
   a better way to do this for the next version.
44.Added $result identifier which stores the result of
   a /return <result>. The result can be a number between
   0 and 30,000.

30/06/1996 - mIRC v4.5

Changes:
1.Major improvement of code in many places. mIRC
  now processes many things faster.
2.Fixed possible bug with invalid nicknames being
  added to nick list on a channel.
3.Fixed a bug in DDE routines which caused a gpf if
  external applications were too slow at processing
  DDE messages.
4.Rewrote remote routines, they now look much less
  like spaghetti and work better.
5.Can now use [ and ] evaluation brackets to control
  the order of evaluation of identifiers. Identifiers
  within brackets will be evaluated first, from left
  to right. You can nest brackets. This allows you to
  evaluate things any way you like...

  /notice $nick " $+ [ $read [ -s + [ $parm1 ] ] c:\text\note.txt ] $+ "
  /say % [ $+ [ $1 ] ]

  Definitions without evaluation brackets are evaluated
  the same way as before, though I've also improved the
  normal evaluation method slightly.
6.Fixed small $read bug.
7.Can now use server addresses in User list in remote.
8.Added MDI options dialog to the Window menu which
  allows you to specify for each individual window if
  you want it opened as an MDI or as an independent
  desktop window.
9.Standardised command error reply to: * /command: <message>
10.Can now use delete key to delete URLs in URL window
   and Insert key to add a new url.
11.Can now use Control-Tab to step through the different
   tabs in the setup and options dialogs.
12.Wrote a setup program which allows you to install mIRC
   in a directory of your choice, creates backups of your
   current files, validates the zipped files to make sure
   they're not corrupted, and adds icons to the program
   manager for you.
13.Improved DCC Send file dialog, can now select more than
   nine files at a time to DCC send.
14.Fixed scrollbar sometimes not being positioned properly
   in certain windows.
15.Added /titlebar command which allows you to change the text
   in the titlebar on the fly.
16.Added protect list to options dialog, now works
   exactly like auto-op command, can specify channels
   for each nick.
17.DCC Send/Get/Chat are now fully dynamically allocated
   structures ie. there is no limit on the number of DCCs.
   This speeds up DCC send/get processing a lot. This also
   fixes a few small bugs related to the way the older
   structures were being used.
18.Improved the DCC Send/Get transfer windows, they now
   give information such as time taken, estimated time
   for transfer, characters per second, etc., and a
   progress bar.
19.Window sizes for Chat/Server/Send/Get windows are now
   saved seperately for each type of window.
20.Added ON BAN remote event, works like ON OP.

   5:ON BAN:#tree:/mode $chan -b $banmask

21.Added option to Links window popup menu which lets you
   switch between displaying links as plain text or
   in a listbox.
22.Wildcard routine now allows ? character to match any
   single character, the * is used as normal to match
   multiple characters. This affects matching text in
   ON TEXT, etc. as well as user addresses. Also fixed a
   small bug that was causing mismatches in certain cases.
23.Now allows multiple channels in a remote event
   definition:

   1:ON OP:#moo,#help,#test:/notice ...

24.Now allows %variables to be used in the text and
   channel positions of an event definition:

   1:ON TEXT:%text:%channel:/notice etc ...

   You can also use %variables for ctcp command names:

   1:%variable:/notice etc...

25.Added a RAW section to the remote which catches NUMERIC
   events. This has it's own separate editbox because if
   mIRC had to scan your whole remote events definitions
   for each numeric event, things would slow down to a
   crawl.

   322:*mirc*:/echo 2 $parms

   This would print all lines which have the word "mirc"
   in them when you do a channels /list (this is a pretty
   intensive test).

26.Fixed bug with notify list not being updated correctly
   when a user changed nicknames.
27.For remote events and ctcp commands you can now prevent
   the normal text associated with that command from being
   displayed by using the /halt command.

   1:ON JOIN:#mIRC:/echo 3 #mirc [Joins $nick] | /halt

   So from now on when anyone joins channel #mIRC, only
   that text is displayed in the channel.

   Be warned: you can use this to prevent query windows
   from opening, plus other things which mIRC usually
   does for an event (though nothing critical).
28.Window structures are now fully dynamically allocated
   so there is no limit on the number of windows which can
   be opened. This also speeds up processing quite a bit.
29.Now allows alias, popup, and remote definitions like:
   <prefix definition> {
     /command1 ...
     /command2 ...
     /command3 ...
   }
   One line definitions are handled the same as before.
   The characters { } now have special meaning so you
   can't use them as normal text anymore.
30.Major improvement of memory usage in command parser.
31.Added "View" URL option in channels list popup menu
   which extracts and views a URL immediately.
32.Added a /goto command which can be used in { } definitions.

   /greet {
     /set %x 0
     :retry
     /inc %x
     /goto %x
     :2
     /echo bye!
     /halt
     :1
     /echo hi!
     /goto retry
   }

   You can also use a variable as a goto name, eg.

   :%jumppoint

   if you "/set %jumpoint 5" then you can do "/goto 5"
   and mIRC will evaluate %jumpoint to 5 and jump to it.

33.You can now use the /return command to finish processing
   an alias command and to allow any default processing to
   continue. eg.

   1:ON JOIN:#mIRC {
     /echo 3 #mirc [Joins $nick]
     /return
     /echo 3 #mirc I'm not printed!
   }

34.Added "Always On Top" setting to system menu of windows
   when they are opened as desktop windows.
35.Text in status, queries, and channels windows is now
   rewrapped to fit the window whenever a window is resized
   or a font is changed.
36.Added two new events:

   1:ON FILESENT:*.txt,*.ini:/echo Sent $filename to $nick ( $+ $address $+ )
   1:ON FILERCVD:*.txt,*.ini:/echo Received $filename from $nick | /run notepad.exe $filename

   These only react to successful DCC transers.
37.Added /writeini command and $readini identifier which use
   the built-in INI routines to write/read standard INI files.

   /writeini <inifile> <section> <item> <value>
   $readini <inifile> <section> <item>

   These will allow better control of storage of different
   types of information into different sections in a file.
38.Now allows aliases to call other aliases, or even to call
   themselves recursively. As a safeguard against infinite
   loops, the default maximum recurse depth is set at 10. This
   can be changed with the /maxdepth command. The minimum
   depth allowed is 1 (aliases can't call other aliases) and
   the maximum is 100. Calling aliases from within aliases
   uses quite a bit of memory, so this might cause problems
   in certain situations where memory is low etc.
39.The /links window now has the save buffer option in the
   system menu.
40.Now supports Drag-and-drop files onto channel, channel nick
   listbox, query/chat, and notify windows. Can define aliases
   for each type of dropped file, as well as different aliases
   if the Shift key is pressed when the file is dropped. See
   Drag-drop tab in options dialog.
41.The /set /unset /inc /dec commands now default to not
   displaying information unless called directly from the
   command line. To force them to display info, you can use
   the [-s] switch eg. /set -s %x 1
42.Improved the copy routine slightly... if lines being copied
   originally belonged to the same line, then they are combined
   instead of separated. If you want to force mIRC to copy text
   exactly as it appears in the window then hold down the SHIFT
   key when you do the mark/copy.
43.In remote, instead of using the * prefix for commands to
   be performed only when you're an Op, you can now use the @
   sign. Both are handled, but I will only specify the @ in
   the documentation since it makes more sense.
44.Increased maximum items for popup menus from 300 to 600.
45.Now ignores any mirc.ini in the windows directory and uses
   the mirc.ini in the current mirc.exe path.
46.Invalid CTCP messages are not replied to anymore.
47.Fixed a small time-out bug related to DCC send/get/chat.
48.New Identifiers:

   $abs(N) returns the absolute value of number N.
   $chr(N) returns the character with ascii number N.
   $asc(C) returns the ascii number of the character C.

   $len(text) returns the length of "text".

   $upper(text) returns "text" in uppercase.
   $lower(text) returns "text" in lowercase.

   $left(N,text) returns N left characters.
   $right(N,text) returns N right characters.
   $mid(S,N,text) returns N characters starting at S.
   $str(N,text) returns "text" repeated N times.

   $token(N,C,text) return Nth token separated by character C
                    (C is the ascii number of a character)

   $lines(file) return number of lines in specified file.

   $nick(N,#) returns Nth nickname on channel #.
   $snick(N,#) returns Nth selected nickname on channel #.
   $opnick(N,#) returns Nth Op nickname on channel #.
   $nopnick(N,#) returns Nth non-Op nickname on channel #.

   $channel(N) returns the Nth channel that you are on.
   $query(N) returns the Nth query window you have open.
   $chat(N) returns the Nth DCC chat window you have open.

   $notify(N) returns the Nth notify nick currently on IRC.

   For the above identifiers you can specify N as 0 (zero)
   to get the total number of nicks/channels/etc. for that
   identifier.

   $snotify   returns notify nick currently selected in
              notify list box.

   $level(address) finds a matching address in the remote
                   users list and returns its levels.

   $away returns the value $true or $false.

   Identifiers/variables can be placed inside the brackets.

   Example: /echo $right(3,$left($len(goats),ToMooOrNotToMoo))

49.Added a simple /if statement...

   /if v1 operator v2 { ... }
   /elseif v1 operator v2 { ... }
   /else { ... }

   Example:

   if (((%x == 2) || (%y >= 3)) && ($1 == $parm1)) { echo match1! }
   else if ($len(%input) == 5) { echo match2! }
   else echo no match!

   If/elseif/else can all be nested inside each other. You
   should use () and {} brackets to make sure that you're
   terms are evaluated correctly though you don't *have* to
   use them.

   Using brackets also speeds up processing quite a bit since
   mIRC then knows exactly what it has to evaluate.

   Available comparisons:

   ==    equal to
   !=    not equal to
   <     less than
   >     larger than
   >=    larger than or equal to
   <=    smaller than or equal to

   //    is a multiple of
   \\    is not a multiple of

   isin  string v1 is in string v2
   iswm  wildcard string v1 matches string v2

   ison  nickname v1 is on channel v2
   isop  nickname v1 is an op on channel v2

   isnum number v1 is a number in the range v2
         which is in the form n1-n2 (v2 optional)

   ischan if v1 is a channel which you are on.

   isauto  if v1 is a user in your auto-op list for
           channel v2 (v2 optional)

   isignore if v1 is a user in your ignore list with the
            ignore switch v2 (v2 optional)

   isprotect if v1 is a user in your protect list for
             channel v2 (v2 optional)

   isnotify if v1 is a user in your notify list.

   To negate the above you can prefix them with an !
   exclamation mark.
50.In all definitions, you do not need to specify the
   / command character any more for commands since it
   is really only needed when typing commands into the
   editbox. This also means you don't need to specify
   the / when defining aliases, etc. See 51.
51.Variables or identifiers that don't evaluate to a value
   now return the value $null so they can be used in the
   if statement for checking etc. eg.

   listops {
     echo 4 * Listing Ops on #
     set %i 1
     :next
     set %nick $nick(%i,#)
     if %nick == $null goto done
     if %nick isop # echo 3 %nick is an Op!
     inc %i
     goto next
     :done
     echo 4 * End of Ops list
   }

52.When entering text in an editbox you can now hold down
   the CONTROL key when pressing Enter and the text will be
   sent as plain text even if it begins with a command
   character. This will also work when you paste text into
   the editbox.
53.Text in Alias, Popup, and Remote ediboxes is now auto-
   indented when { } brackets are encountered.
54.Enlarged DCC Chat dialog to make it easier to use.
55.You can now use an = (equal sign) to assign values to
   variables.

   %x = 5 + 1
   %x = 5 - %y
   %x = %x * 2
   %x = %z / $2
   %x = %x % 3

   Can only perform a single operation in an assignment
   at this time. You can also still do /set %x 5 + 1.
56.Added $ctime identifier which returns total number of
   seconds elapsed since 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970. This
   can be used with PING to find out how many seconds it took.
57.Added ON CTCPREPLY to listen for replies to ctcps. eg.:

   1:ON CTCPREPLY:PING* {
     if ($parm2 == $null) echo [ $+ $nick PING reply]
     else {
       %pt = $ctime - $parm2
       if (%pt < 0) set %pt 0
       echo [ $+ $nick PING reply] %pt seconds
     }
     halt
   }

58.Identifier $active returns the full name of the currently
   active window.
59.Added Font button to alias, popup, and remote dialogs
60.mIRC now automatically gets your web browsers path and
   name from the registry if it's there.
61.Channels list is now saved to a file "channels.txt" and the
   channels list dialog now has "Apply" and "Get List" buttons.
   If "Get List" is pressed then a list is read from the server,
   if "Apply" is pressed then the latest list is used whether in
   the channels listbox or in the "channels.txt" file. The date
   time and server name are also stored in this file.
62.Added "Save to file" item in channels list popup menu which
   allows you to save the currently displayed list to a file.
63.Added "PORT" item to DDE which returns the current irc
   server port you are using.
64.If userid in identd server is empty then mIRC assumes you're
   a new user and automatically fills in the userid from the
   email address you entered and turns on the identd server.
65.Can now use the /quote command to do the same thing as /raw.
66.Now supports server-side filtering on UNDERNET channels for
   the minimum and maximum number of users on a channel. This
   means that you will only receive a list of channels which
   match your choices for these two criteria.
67.Can now use Alt-J to pop up the channels folder dialog.
68.Speeded up display of Channel nicknames listbox. This actually
   affects quite a few other things in mIRC since the channels
   listbox was being used to store the nicknames for each channel.
   Now the nicknames are stored internally. Any command or
   identifier that involves checking/using nicknames is now far
   faster than before.
69.Now sounds an event beep when a chat that you initiated
   makes a connection.
70.Can now set a string variable to an empty string with "".
   eg. set %name ""  or  %s = ""
71.Text in the alias/popup/remote dialogs is now displayed
   quickly.
72.The Wait cursor is now used in more places to give a
   better indication of when mIRC is busy doing something.
73.Can now select multiple files in the Log File listbox
   to make deleting files easier.
74.For $read and /play you no longer need to specify the
   number of lines in a file on the first line of the file.
   If you do, mIRC will use the number and will work faster,
   if you don't mIRC will count the lines itself.
75.Can now use Control-Break to break out of a currently
   executing alias in case it's in an infinite loop, etc.
76.mIRC now defaults to using aliases.ini, popups.ini, and
   remote.ini files if these files aren't specified in mirc.ini,
   and if these sections aren't found in mirc.ini. If these
   files don't exist, mIRC will create them.
77.Added /alias command which allows you to add and remove
   aliases from the aliases list. Only works for *single line*
   aliases.
78.Colour now works in DCC Chats.
79.Speeded up Tab display in setup and options dialogs.
80.Fixed Editbox bug when pressing enter and text isn't sent.
81.DDE Server now defaults to ON with service name MIRC.
82.Added "CONNECT" DDE topic, which connects you to a server and
   joins a channel. The data format is: irc.funet.fi,6667,#mIRC,1
   where the last digit is a 1 or 0 indicating whether you want
   mIRC to be activated or not. This is an XTYP_POKE.
83.Converted some routines to assembly to increase speed.
84.Added $asctime() which converts the value returned by $ctime
   or a PING into a full date in text format.
85.Added support for ctcp UTC.
86.Now ignores DCC-related ctcps sent to a channel.
87.Shift-F1 now pops up the keyword search dialog for the help file.

27/04/1996 - mIRC v4.1 (final bugfix release)

Changes:
1.Fixed /sound being limited to eight character
  channel/nick names.
2.Fixed mirc.ini file being corrupted in
  certain situation.
3.Fixed servers sorting bug in setup dialog.
4.Added /links window which displays a list
  of all servers in the network and allows
  easy connecting, etc.
5.Fixed character | bug in nicknames/userids.
6.Fixed small ON CHAT bug.
7.Fixed DCC Get minimize button not remembering
  setting.
8.Fixed $ bug.
9.Fixed icon highlighting bug.
10.Fixed bug that was intermittently affecting
   various commands.
11.Fixed /ctcp with "dcc" in nickname bug.
12.reFixed Beep.
13.Fixed not replying to server PING bug.
14.Fixed /unset command not working in an alias.
15.Now saves window buffer to ".log" instead
   of a ".txt" file.
16.Added Log file listbox and View/Delete log
   to Logging options dialog.
17.Now displays in the status bar the *actual*
   address of the server you connect to.
18.Improved context sensitive F1 help key to
   work with more dialogs.
19.Fixed small identd and finger bug.
20.Added fileserver warning dialog to warn
   new users.
21.Added $hfile identifier which is like the $file
   dialog except it lists files horizontally.
22.Fixed fileserver "read" command bug.
23.Added option to display identd requests.
24.Improved mark/copy text routine a bit.
25.Remodelled about dialog.
26.Fixed socks firewall access.
27.Added $++ identifier which works the same as
   the $+ identifier but does the concatenation
   after the previous item has been evaluated, so
   something like this works now:
     /say " $+ $read c:\test.txt $++ "
28.Auto-join on invite now ignores invites to
   channel 0. (/join 0 makes you part all channels,
   seems to be an irc server feature).
29.Finger window is restored if it is minimized
   when you try to do a finger.
30.Changed /list command so you don't have to prefix
   the wildcard text with a #. eg. /list help
   and /list *help* is turned into /list help
31.Now displays /whois Idle time in hours/minutes/
   seconds format instead of just seconds.
32.Clicking on "Arrange Icons" now places icons
   behind open windows when arranging them.
33.Now shows both server name and Port number
   when connecting.
34.Status window default height is now larger.
35.Now handles "erroneous nickname" better.
36.If no directory is specified in the wave filename
   for the /wavplay command, it now defaults to the
   wave directory specified in the Sound Requests
   options dialog.
37.Other things.

20/03/1996 - mIRC v4.0 (final version)

Changes:
1.Fixed standard editbox popup menu under 95 not
  being displayed on a right mouse-click.
2.Fixed problem with /ctcp to a user with "dcc"
  in nickname.
3./query command pops an existing window to the
  front if it's hidden.
4.Fixed "parameter dialog" popping up bug.
5.Fixed Channel Dialog gpf bug if kicked while
  dialog still open.
6.Dynamic help menu now displays a list of .hlp files
  in mIRC's directory, as well as the readme.txt,
  versions.txt, and update.txt files, for quick
  access. Also adds internal aliases that match
  these filenames, so if you have "winsock.hlp" in
  the help menu you can type /winsock <topic>. The
  menu is always updated before it is displayed.
7.[removed]
8.Added "play wave" options to event beeps section.
9.Now remembers DDE settings across sessions,
  added to "Servers" section in options dialog.
10.Added "Popup notify window on connect" option.
11.Added new configurable menu which allows you to
   add a menu to the main menu bar. This menu has
   the functionality of both the main, query,
   and nickname popup menus, and allows you to
   define commands that work in different types
   of windows.
12.Can now test for and prevent SOUND ctcp's
   in the remote.
13.Fixed channel list "Hide" parameters being
   erased in certain situations.
14.Modularized Tab dialog routines so now they're
   "completely" independent of the rest of the code.
15.Improved setup dialog/server selection:
   a) Added "group" definition to servers. When sorting
      the servers list this groups servers with the
      same group name together.
   b) Added "connection retry" options. One second
      delay inbetween connect retries.
   c) Can select multiple servers to connect to.
   d) Can do "/server groupname" which will cycle through
      all servers of group "groupname" when trying to connect.

   NOTE:
   When using the 16bit mIRC, winsock will "freeze" sometimes
   when cancelling a connection. This is because winsock has
   to timeout... as far as I know, mIRC can do nothing about
   this since it is built-in to winsock, so even if mIRC
   cancels a connection, winsock still waits for 10 seconds
   *anyway* before completing the cancellation. This might
   result in other problems.

16.Added "Popup channel folder on connect" option.
17.Now capitalizes the first word in a ctcp message.
18.Notify:
   a) Now has it's own window in options dialog.
   b) Number of nicks is unlimited.
   c) Allows little notes for each nickname.
19.Added /commands [on|off], turns remote commands on/off.
   /events [on|off] turns only events on/off, and
   /remote [on|off] now turns both commands and events on/off.
20.Added other beep/close options to DCC options dialog.
21.Fixed $parms bug, was only storing first 256 chars.
22.Added "Place ? marked urls at top of list" option in url options.
23.Can now do "/ignore -auN", which unignores the
   specified address after N seconds. Can now also do,
   /ignore -apcnti, where p=private,c=channel,n=notice,
   t=ctcp,i=invite.
24.Can now enter auto-op addresses with channels,
   eg. nick!user@address,#mirc,#mircplus
25.All /dde commands are now buffered and sent at intervals
   specified by the DDE delay option.
26.Added /clearall command which clears buffers of all
   status, channel, and private windows.
27.Now warns you if you try to quit mIRC when there are
   DCC Transfers in progress.
28.[removed]
29./links command results are now displayed in a coloured
   tree fashion to make it more readable (?)
30.Added "pop up setup dialog on startup" option.
31.Improved speed of text display slightly.
32.Fixed /rlevel not removing levels in certain situations.
33.Added -s<text> option to /write command, scans file for a
   line beginning with <text> and writes to it.
34.[removed]
35.Added /groups [-e|d] command which lists all, enabled,
   and disabled groups in remote definitions.
36.Can now use #$?#="etc." which will ask for a channel
   name if you try to use the command in a non-channel
   window, otherwise it uses the channel name of the
   currently active channel window.
37.Command parsing routine completely rewritten, much
   more robust and evaluates identifiers etc. more
   intelligently now. However, because of increased
   processing/checking etc. this routine is now slower
   than the older routine.
38.Moved identd server options to setup dialog.
39./speak command requests are now also placed
   in delayed DDE queue.
40.Added variable support:
   /set [-q] <%var) [value]
   /unset [-q] <%var> [%var2] ... [%varN]
   /unsetall
   /inc [-q] <%var> [value]
   /dec [-q] <%var> [value]
   Can be edited in Variables section in remote dialog.
41.Iconized Notify and Url windows are now highlighted
   whenever their contents change.
42.Notify and URL toolbar buttons are now also highlighted
   if either the window isn't open or isn't active.
43.Fixed /ctcp nick VER bug.
44.Fixed beeping bug where mIRC wasn't beeping properly
   for some users.
45./sound now doesn't require you to specify a message.
46.Added $level which represents users level in remote.
47.Added /remove <filename> which deletes the specified file.
48.Added $cd which represents users current directory
   in a fileserver session (Used in ON SERV event).
49.Specifying a nickname in the finger dialog now works
   the same way as /finger <nickname>.
50.Can now use /nick while not connected to server:
   /nick <nickname> [alternate]
51.Fixed bug in resolving dns addresses.
52.Fixed /finger not resolving for some users.
53./auto and /ignore now *add* an address by default,
   to remove an address you can use the -r switch.
   ie. they do not toggle anymore.
54.Added Firewall option, doesn't allow DCC's through
   a firewall yet though.
55.Added "IP method" option for users with different
   winsock setups.
56.Fixed DCC Sending a file with the same name as users
   nickname (would result in an error message).
57.Fixed URL sorting in url window.
58.Now tests to see if DCC send filename is a system device,
   if so DCC send is ignored.
59.Fixed & characters in editboxes in options dialog
   being messed up.
60.Fixed disappearing INI and temp files not being removed (?)
61.Fixed "read" in fileserver allowing read access to files
   outside home directory.
62.Fixed occasional "notice" gpf.
63.Fixed ctcp TIME missing trailing ^A.
64.Fixed Status window saving/reset not working.
65 Can now specify -sgroupname on the command line.
66.Other bits and pieces.

06/01/1996 - mIRC v3.92

Changes:
1.Fixed /sound gpf bug.
2.Fixed security bug in remote.
3.Fixed gpf bug on windows opening due to old
  window pos/size format in mirc.ini.
4.Changed fingers storage method in mirc.ini.
5.Improved Channels List dialog.
6.Popups are now fully allocated dynamically.
7.Changed $file identifier to display only files,
  can now use $dir to display both directories
  and files.
8.Added /font command which pops up the font
  dialog.
9.Added "Extract URL" menu item to channels list
  popup menu, which extracts a URL from a channels
  topic and puts it in the urls list.
10.DCC Send "percent" info is now updated when
   an Ack is received, not when a packet is sent.
11.Fixed $parms not working with $read.
12.Speeded up tabs display in options dialog slightly.
13.Small improvements in DDE response speed.
14.Function key aliases can now execute several
   commands by using the | command seperator.
15.Fixed DCC gpf problem (?)
16.Fixed $read not closing files in certain situations.
17.When entering text in an editbox mIRC now beeps
   when you are within 30 characters of the maximum
   allowed line length.
18.mIRC now works with the three major WWW Browsers.
19.Fixed '=' prefix processing bug in remote.

28/12/1995 - mIRC v3.9

Changes:
1.Fixed the /join KEY bug.
2.Add -q switch to /raw which makes the /raw command
  work "quietly", not printing out what it's sending.
3.Fixed channel folder dialog not remembering
  added/deleted channels when pressing OK.
4.Now /ignores invites as well.
5.Fixed the remote DO command.
6.Can now handle &channels, fully supported in aliases,
  popups, and remote definitions.
7.Redecorated. Tending towards simple and uncluttered
  menus and interface.
8.Removed font dialog, can now change a font only from
  a windows system menu.
9.Can now do /me or /action in DCC chat windows.
10.The 32bit under 95 now saves logs and buffers using
   the full length filename.
11.ON TEXT etc. now allow wild card matches using
   multiple * in the match text.

   NOTE: the text matching routine in ON TEXT etc.
   doesn't use the = sign anymore, as it's now redundant.

12.Found bugs in the wildcard matching routine while
   making ON TEXT work with it. Fixed.
13.Made Tabs in options dialog more 95-ish. The bold
   font is still there though, sorry, I like it!
14.mIRC now does NOT reply to unknown ctcp messages,
   it just prints them in your window as usual and
   then ignores them (as per the RFC).
15.Aliases now work better when called from remote
   definitions.
16.Fixed -l# switch in play command.
17.Improved positioning of various dialogs.
18.DALnet URL catching on joining a channel now works.
19.Nicks in notify list are no longer forced to lowercase.
20./save can now be used in an alias with | separators.
21.Added -stext option to $read, which scans the specified
   file for a line beginning with the specified text.
22./pop delay is now randomly *close* to the number you
   specify as a delay.
23.Fixed /server N (specifying server number).
24.Fixed window bug possibly related to DCC gpfs.
25.Added -u# switch to /ban command which specifies delay
   time before unbanning the specified ban. Minimum delay
   time is 10 seconds. If no number is specified, it defaults
   to 30 seconds. eg. /ban -u15 nick
26./fingering a nick now only adds the nick's address to the
   fingered addresses list, not the users whole irc address.
27.Now allows an unlimited number of /timers.
28.Fixed INI specification on command line.
29.Improved dynamic memory allocation in various places.
30.Added notify list window. Can use the toolbar notify button
   or /notify [-sh] to show/hide the window. Please note that
   there is a minimum window width under 95 that I haven't
   been able to override.
31.Address returned by IAL was sometimes invalid. Fixed.
32.Added [-ar] switches to /notify, /protect, /ignore,
   which forces the command to -add or -remove a nick
   instead of toggling it.
33.Added $site identifier for remote addresses.
   eg. for user@host
   $site = host
34.Now allows /sound in DCC chats.
35.Added minimal DDE support, as well /dde command and
   a $dde identifier, to be expanded. See DDE section in
   help file for description
36.Added "Edit" button for editing finger file in options
   dialog.
37.Can now access popup menus in the notify, URL, and channels
   list window through the keyboard. Pressing RETURN performs
   a "double-click", pressing SPACE pops up the popup menu.
38.Added Alt-N for notify and Alt-U for URL windows.
39./msg command now by default doesn't switch to the
   window you're sending a message to unless you specify
   the [-s] switch. eg. /msg -s hiya!
40.Added /timestamp [on|off] command.
41.Added /partall command which parts all the channels
   you're currently on.
42.Added "Minimize DCC get window" option.
43.Added $adate (for US style month/day/year),
   and $fulldate which spells it all out.
44.Added a "time to activate" option to the /timer
   command, eg. /timer1 11:30 1 1 /say It's now 11:30am
45.Fixed "filename" in quotes with no spaces bug.
46.Fixed using $?="text" identifier.
47.Added $file identifier, eg. in a popup menu item:
   Play Wave:/wavplay $file="Select a Wave!" c:\waves\*.wav
48.Fixed disappearing aliases/popups/remote bug, where
   filenames for each of these were being reset to the
   mirc.ini file.
49.Added a "/timers off" switch which allows you to turn
   off all active timers.
50.Alt-L now pops up the Channels List dialog.
51.Added /disconnect command, hard disconnect from server
   without a /quit.
52.Fixed ON SNOTICE reacting twice to server notices.
53.Fixed/Improved other bits and pieces.

25/11/1995 - mIRC v3.8

Changes:
1.Added option to show invites in active window.
2.Fixed $! bug.
3.Added option to auto-resume existing files.
4.Fixed /echo with invalid parameters gpfing.
5.Option dialog now remembers it's "view" across
  sessions.
6.Paused op wasn't clearing a nick from it's list
  immediately if a nick parted or quit, but had to
  timeout first.
7.Added /speak <text> command which uses monolog
  to speak the specified text.
8.Added /dns <nick/address> which resolves addresses.
  If mIRC sees a "." in the name you specify it assumes
  it's an address and tries to resolve it. Otherwise
  it assumes it's a nickname and does a /whois to
  find the users address and then looks it up. If you
  give it an IP address, it looks up the host name.
9.Removed small users window in remote dialog, now
  using one big window for users, commands, and events.
10.The Add Dialog has been discontinued. Check out the
   alias, popup, and remote dialogs for the improvement.

   IT IS *HIGHLY* RECOMMENDED THAT THE ALIAS, POPUP,
   AND REMOTE SECTIONS BE SAVED SEPERATE FROM THE
   MAIN MIRC.INI FILE FROM NOW ON. THE MIRC.INI
   CAN'T HANDLE THE STORAGE OF LARGE AMOUNTS OF
   INFORMATION AS REQUIRED BY THE ALIAS, POPUP,
   AND REMOTE SECTIONS.

11.Finally fixed DCC Send/Get windows sometimes
   not auto-closing at end of transfer (?)
12.Right-clicking in a non-active window will now
   bring it to the top and make it active.
13.Fixed socket error message when running second
   copy of mIRC (didn't actually affect anything).
14.For new users, mIRC no longer copies the mirc.ini
   to the windows directory but leaves it and uses it
   in the same directory as the EXE. However, if it
   finds an mirc.ini in the windows directory it will
   use it (to remain compatible with older users).
15.Small fixes relating to Function keys.
16.Can now use /load -apuce <file.ini> or
   /save -apuce <file.ini> to load and save aliases,
   popups, and remote sections from the command line.
   NOTE: You can only refer to one section at a time,
   so you can't do /load -ap some.ini.
17.All memory in the parsing and remote routines is
   now allocated dynamically.
18.Added ignore options to DCC send/chat in the DCC
   options dialog. Can also use /sreq and /creq
   (send request and chat request) with the parameters
   [ ask | auto | ignore] from the command line.
19.Added "ON CHAT:text:/msg ..." and ON SERV events to
   scan text in DCC chat windows and fileserver windows.
20.Added command line option to connect to a server and
   join channels which is more of a standard WWW link
   definition: //server:port/#channel,#channel
21.Fixed gpf problem for some users when quitting mIRC (?)
22.Added /flush [levels] command. This clears the remote user
   list of nicknames that are no longer valid. For each nick
   in the user list that matches the specified levels mIRC
   checks to see if that nick is on any of the channels that
   you are currently on. If not, the nick definition is removed
   from the user list. If you do not specify [levels] then
   mIRC clears all nicks from the user list that don't exist
   on channels you are on.
23.Added "me" prefix to remote definitions, eg.:
   me:1:ON JOIN:/msg etc...
   This limits a command definition to reacting only to
   events caused by your client. This is useful in case you
   use Bots which have the same address as you.
24.The address in the Finger dialog now defaults to
   the last address which was fingered.
25.The /play command has been improved in a major way, 
   it can now queue requests (see the help file!)
26.Fixed bug with highlighting in query windows.
27.Added Finger server (must be set up in a certain
   way, see the help file on how to do this).
28.Added ON SNOTICE event, which listens for server
   notices and can filter them ie. prevent them from
   being displayed.
29.Remodelled the setup dialog. Can now also store
   an unlimited number of servers.
30.If /finger sees a "." in the parameter you give it, it
   will assume it's an address and will finger it, otherwise
   it will assume it's a nickname and will do a /whois on the
   nick to find their address and use that for the finger.
31.Added option to change tooltip delay.
32.Split the "Beep on window message" option into two...
   "Beep on channel message" and "Beep on query message".
33.Fixed the notify bug which would result in mIRC telling
   you all the people on your notify list are on... then
   off... then on... then off...
34.Simplified /timer code and fixed a small bug in it.
35.Command line window buffer has increased to 30 lines.
36.Now catches server numeric 328 for URL description
   when joining a channel on DALnet (they might not have
   implemented this yet).
37.Fixed toolbar buttons colours when the default system
   colours are changed.
38.The 32bit mIRC can now DCC send/get LFN's with spaces
   in them. Unfortunately, other clients won't be able to
   receive these properly! See the "DCC Send" section in
   the help file which explains the problem.
   You can also do: /dcc send nickname "this is a.text file"
39.Added -nnick1,nick2 command line option which sets
   your nicks to these values.
40.Overhaul of irc and parsing routines, simplified and
   speeded up.
41.Added [on | off | close] to /url command to turn on/off
   catching urls and to close the URL window.
42.Added option "Show modes in channel".
43.Now gives the reason why you can't join a channel.
44.If you have "rejoin channel when kicked" turned on
   and you are kicked, mIRC will keep the channel
   window open while it tries to rejoin and will only
   close it if it can't.
45.If a /play filename doesn't have a directory spec. it
   defaults to the mirc.exe directory.
46.Added a flexibile /write command which writes lines
   to a file.
47.Added "Show queries in active channel window" which
   shows private messages from other users in a channel
   window without opening a query window.
48.Added "TAB" key putting "/msg nickname" into the editbox
   where "nickname" is the nick of the last person who
   messaged you. If you press TAB repeatedly it cycles
   through the nicks of the last five people who messaged
   you.
49.Now shows who set the topic and at what time when you
   join a channel on Undernet and DALnet.
50.Fixed small bug with the /sound command not checking
   properly if a sound file exists.
51.The Options dialog now uses Tabs. I had trouble using
   existing TabDialog DLL's, so I coded my own Tab
   display routines.
52.Fixed /channel dialog bug which would occur if you
   typed /channel repeatedly while it was in the middle
   of retrieving the channel info.
53.Fixed a problem with /whois replies, the format of
   the reply has changed and is hopefully clearer now.
54.Can now also define Shift and Control Function key
   definitions.

24/10/1995 - mIRC v3.72

Changes:
1.Fixed $parms not being passed in a redirection.
2.Can now /play to any channel/nick without needing
  to have that window already open.
3.Added -ttopic option to /play which looks for the
  specified [topic] in a text file and plays it to
  the specified nick/channel.
4.Added $pnick identifier which refers to the nick/channel
  which is currently being played to, so you can use it
  in /played commands.
5.Allows #$parmN to force a parameter to be a channel.
6.Fixed DCC Resume filesize bug.
7.Added option to show notifies in active window.
8.Completely reorganized the Options dialog as it was
  too crowded and it was getting harder to add new options.
  Now divided into sections, and also incorporates the
  options in the extras, url, sounds, and identd dialogs.
  The menus and toolbar buttons have been re-organized
  accordingly.
9.Fixed QUIT bug when exiting mIRC while still connected.
  It was sending a part instead of a quit to the server.
10.Fixed /timer not releasing it's memory in certain
   situations.
11.Fixed positioning of : in some raw commands.
12.Fixed setting of focus to windows.
13.Added option to dump joins/parts to status window.
14.Now shows DCC transfers percentage/size at head
   of window title for win95 users.
15.Messages from irc ops of the form $address or
   #address are now displayed in the server window
   in pretty purple as opposed to opening up a query
   window.
16.Added "clear list" button to DCC chat dialog (the
   DCC Send dialog uses the same list).
17.The /pop delay value can be up to 15 seconds now.
18.The weird DCC Send dialog bug was fixed (?)
19.Improved copy/paste routine memory allocation.
20.Fixed /sound with invalid parameters gpfing.
21.Fixed some toolbar colours not being displayed
   correctly for some buttons.
22.Number of channels in channel list window is now
   shown at beginning of title.
23.Text printed with the /echo command is now wrapped.
24.Added $r(v1,v2) identifier, returns random number
   or letter between v1 and v2.
25.Fixed identd server time-out bug.

12/10/1995 - mIRC v3.7

Changes:
1.An *iconified* channel list window is not restored
  if a /list is done, instead it's icon is placed above
  current windows (without focus) for easy access.
2.The Join Channel dialog can now handle multiple
  selections.
3.The /timer can now work with aliases again.
4.Can now prevent an identifier from being evaluated
  the first time through the alias routine by prefixing
  it with a ! for example: $!read, $!url, $!me, etc.
  This allows you to use it in a /timer command if you
  want the identifier to be re-evaluated every time.
5.Fixed /channel dialog bug and improved memory
  allocation for the ban list.
6.Fixed bug in status window sizing.
7.Fixed Timer dialog bug, when selecting cancel
  timer wasn't being reset correctly.
8.Improved grouping of switches in options dialog.
9.Fixed "disconnected" bug while trying to connect
  to another server if already connected to one.
10.Cleaned up popup menu routines.
11.Major improvement in robustness of input,
   general irc, and remote routines.

            BACKUP YOUR MIRC.INI FILE(S)

12.Wrote my own read and write INI routines for parts of
   the mirc.ini file since the standard INI routines
   were too slow. Loading and saving is almost instant now.

13.Fixed windows not being saved/closed properly on exit.
14./play now works when used in remote commands.
15.Added /echo command which prints text in the specified
   window (for debugging purposes).
16.Now using 0x04L in dialog definitions so that
   3D dialogs under win95 are automatic.
17.Can now do "/server N" where N is the Nth server
   in the server list.
18.Fixed font selections not being saved correctly.
19.Added URL catcher window which automatically catches
   URLs from text in channels etc. and stores them in
   a listbox. You can then send a URL to your WWW browser
   directly through mIRC. Type /url [-d] to open the window.
   Use -d to clear all ? marked items before showing the list.
20.If a nick in the notify list is prefixed with a + sign
   a /whois is done on it on a notify.
21.Added sounds dialog and a new /sound command which
   allows multiple users on a channel to hear sounds at
   the same time (assuming they have the same wave files).
   format: /sound [nick/channel] <file.wav> <message>
22.Fixed problem with % in channel names (and other things).
23.Fixed channel dialog "Key already set" bug.
24.Added $url identifier which references the currently
   active URL in your WWW browser.
25.Added option in extras dialog to redefine command char.
26.Now automatically sets cursor to last edited window in
   remote and popup dialogs.

         *** NOTE NOTE NOTE IMPORTANT CHANGE ***

27.Now uses a different format for commands/events:
   Old format: 1:PING:/notice *1:$nick hi there
   New format: 1:PING:/notice $nick hi there
   This greatly simplifies processing, the routines
   are now probably more than twice as fast as before.
   mIRC will automatically detect and convert old format
   definitions on startup (and when /add is used).

28.mIRC now maintains an internal list of nick!user@address
   for all users that are on the same *channels* as you. Whenever
   a /guser, /ruser, or /ban is issued, the internal list is
   searched first to find the nick's address. If no match is
   found, the normal /whois stuff is done.
29.Now opens log files in shared mode.
30.The nickname in the DCC Send dialog now defaults to
   the last nick to which a file was sent.
31.Added $snicks which returns a list of the selected
   nicks in the current channel listbox. The list is
   in the form: nick1,...,nickN, so you can only use it
   in commands which take multiple nicks.
32.Greatly improved/simplified address matching routine.
33.Can now do /ignore <nick> [type] which looks
   up the specified nick's address by doing a /whois,
   same as the /auser, /ban, etc. commands.
34.DCC Get dialog now allows you to specify a different
   directory for the incoming file.
35.In the setup dialog, a server is highlighted after
   it is added to the server list.
36.The nickname in the DCC Chat dialog now defaults to
   the last nick that was chatted to.
37.Aliases can now be called from popup, remote, timer,
   play, and any other definitions. You can now also call
   several aliases on one line seperated by a | like normal
   commands. eg. 1:HELP:/help1 $nick | /help2 $nick
   (Aliases still can't call other aliases).
38.Can now have up to 30 timers, also improved memory
   allocation for timers.
39.Fixed bugs with the /add command.
40.Fixed Clipboard missing last character bug (?)
41.Default directories for the file/dir dialogs
   weren't being set correctly.
42.The /notify command was checking twice instead
   of only once for nicks.
43.The /timer command now also remembers the parameter
   line that was around when the /timer was issued.
44.The 32bit mIRC should now handle LFNs okay.
45.Can now do level comparison for ON KICK, ON OP,
   and ON DEOP, prefix a line with <,>,<=,>=,<>,=
   compares levels of eg. kicker and kicked and only
   executes definition if true.
46.Attempted improvement and cleaning up of server
   oriented commands and their replies.
47."signon time" in a /whois on the undernet and dalnet
   is now shown correctly.
48.Can now specify a server on the command line
   eg. -sirc.server.addr:6667
   and mirc will connect to that server on startup.
   (You can combine this with the -j parameter to
   force it to join specific channels too).

13/09/1995 - released mIRC v3.64 patch

1.Fixes the *1-3 type bug.

11/09/1995 - mIRC v3.64

Changes:
1.Fixed Local Host and IP address bug, added options
  in the setup dialog. Now works for any combination
  of requirements for people with different types of
  internet connections (see Setup in mirc.hlp!)
2.$read command improved so you can specify
  a line number with [-l#]. For example:
  /silly /say $read -l5 silly.txt
  This will read line 5 of silly.txt.
3.Now using "Common Dialogs" for file/directory selection,
  as well as for the DCC Send dialog (Long filenames
  are NOT yet supported).
4.Optimized Remote routines - should be faster now.
5.Can now use $read in remote definitions. For example:
  1:TEST:/notice *1:$nick I said " $+ $read c:\langs\mirc\test.txt $+ "
6.Can now store up to 50 IRC server addresses in Setup dialog.
  Storage format in mirc.ini has changed, but will still read
  the old format.
7.Finger button now pops up a red flag while finger is busy.
  The flag disappears when finger has been completed.
8.Bug with Maximized mIRC window fixed.
9.Finger and Timer dialogs now popup under their
  respective buttons.
10.Added "Channels Folder" button which allows you to join
   a channel as well as maintain a list of your favourite channels.
11.Added "List Channels" button which pops up the List
   parameters dialog, allowing you to quickly list channels.
12.Fixed NT gpf bug when using toolbar.
13.Added -j<#channel> command line option. For example:
   mirc.exe -j#mirc,#friendly,#etc
   The specified channels will be joined on connect. You
   MUST have an mirc.ini with the "Connect on startup" option
   selected.
14.Fixed another bug with using * to begin a non-parameter
   identifier. eg. *host* in aliases/etc.

15.The /auser /guser and /ruser commands can now handle multiple
   levels. They have only been extended, so they are still
   compatible with your previous formats.

   /auser [-a] <level(s)> <nick | address>
   /guser [-a] <level(s)> <nick> [type]
   /ruser [level(s)] <nick> [type]

   For /auser /guser, the default is to replace any existing
   user with the specified levels (as usual). The [-a] option
   means add the specified level(s) to an existing users levels.

   The /ruser command removes the specified levels from an
   existing user. If all levels are removed for a user, the
   user is removed.

   See the Remote section in the Help file!

16.Can now do /mode # +oooo nick1 nick2 nick3 nick4
17./play can now be used in a remote/event definition.

18.Extended the /rlevel command to also work with multiple
   levels.

   /rlevel [-r] <level(s)>

   If the [-r] is NOT specified, it works as usual. If
   the [-r] IS specified, the specified level(s) are removed
   from users that have them. If a user's levels are ALL
   removed, the user is removed.

19.Fixed bug with Green box being drawn around iconized
   window in response to wrong messages.
20.Fixed several bugs in /play with using -r and -l.
   The format has changed slightly to:

   /play [-crl#] <filename> [delay]

   This now allows you to specify a delay for -r and -l,
   You must now specify the line number like this:

   /play -l24 file.txt 1000

21.Text colours are now ok when using > 256 colour setup.

31/08/1995 - mIRC v3.6

Changes:
1.Highlight Box around an Icon now turns green if a highlighted
  word is spoken in a window.
2.Fixed Ping Pong bug which was preventing lines from being
  sent properly to the server.
3.Fixed Editbox/Colours bug in Extras dialog.
4.Inserting blank lines in Remote/events/aliases between
  commands would lead to loss of following definitions.
5.Channel list window would clear if you disconnected and then
  connected again.
6.Aliases, Remote Users, Commands, and Events definitions are now unlimited.
  ie. you can have as many as you want, however the limitation is the
  size of the editbox (around 30k?).
7.Fixed font dialog bug when tabbing with cursor keys.
8.Popups are still limited to 300 menu items for each popup menu.
9.Max. length of a line in aliases, remote, and popups is approx. 600 chars.
  Same applies to lines in the Options dialog.
10.Now allows a non-op to change topic in channel dialog.
11.Fixed :) bug.
12.Fixed /auser /guser bug.
13.Fixed /channel dialog title bug.
14.Added a simple NON-configurable toolbar with tooltips.
   A Configurable toolbar would take a lot of work, so I probably
   won't get around to adding it (so don't ask! :)
15.Fixed ctcp PING reply missing a Ctrl-A at the end (?)
16.Specifying a /who *146.219* numerical address would mess up because
   the *1 is a parameter specifier. mIRC now checks to see if there is
   a . in the number, and if so it doesnt try to expand it.
17./play command can now play single lines randomly picked from
   a file (a specific line can also be specified). The format is:
   /play [-crl] [channel/nick] <filename> [delay/linenumber]
   Using -r means pick a line randomly, using -l means pick
   a specific line specified by linenumber. The first line in the
   file MUST specify the number of lines in the file. Any *1 $1 etc.
   identifiers CANNOT be used in the played line.
18.Added $read identifier which picks a line randomly from a file.
   eg. /say $read c:\funny.txt
       /kick # $1 $read c:\kicks.txt
   The first line in the file MUST specify the number of lines
   in the file. $read will insert ANY text, even commands with
   identifiers, and these will work like normal commands.
19.Added Fast Send checkbox to DCC Send dialog.
20.Fixed scrolling keys in Channel list and finger windows.
21.Made Font list longer in font dialog.
22.Added "auto-join on invite" option to options dialog. An
   auto-joined channel is initially minimized (this might not
   always work for various reasons...)
23.Added Function key support F1 to F12. Define in the alias
   window like a normal alias for example:
   /F1 /say Hello!
   /F5 /query $1   (for use on nick listbox in channel window)
24.Font width measurement for copy/paste wasn't correct for
   certain types of fonts.
25.Fixed problem with minimized windows being sized wrongly.
26.Fixed /channel bug. Now times out after 30 seconds, at
   which point another /channel can be issued. BUT if the old
   /channel command is replied to, your status window will fill
   up with ban list information for that channel. No way around
   this I'm afraid!

13/08/1995 - mIRC v3.51 (minor update)

Changes:
1.Fixed garbage character output bug.
2.mIRC16 wasn't recognizing version reply from Win95.
3.Making mIRC active with a click wasn't setting the focus
  to the active window correctly.
4.Fixed security bug in the fileserver.
7.Fixed $day bug.
8.Removes unused bold/italic/etc. characters from lines.
9.Fixed ON MODE bug with +/-k.
10.Fixed gpf bug in on mode/servermode.
11.Fixed Reset bug, wasn't resizing small windows properly.
12.mIRC wasn't outputting to the status window if it was
   starting out maximized.
13.The /auser, /guser, /ruser, /enable, and /disable commands
   now do NOT save changes immediately to the INI file when
   they are used. Remote information is now saved either on
   exiting mIRC, or if the remote dialog is opened/closed.
14.Now uses the ctl3d dialogs as default. The -d is ignored,
   but you can now use -n to disable the 3d dialogs.
15.Complete dialog interface improvements (for mook ;)
16.Commands using $* were not processing commands following them.
17.Fixed socket() initialization bug in various routines.
18.Improved how mIRC uses/gets your local hostname and ip address.
19.Fixed fileserver dirinfo.srv bug.

07/08/1995 - mIRC v3.5

Changes:
1.Using IP address of a server now works...!
2.A ctcp ACCEPT/RESUME now doesn't look at the filename
  to make a match but only at the port number.
3.Fixed perform option being executed after every MOTD.
4.Notify on initial connect is now done just before Perform option.
5.Fixed bug in displaying wrong Server Name in titlebar after
  changing server name in setup.
6.Scrollback buffer wasn't freeing lines properly.
7.Added $time, $day, and $date as parameter types.
8.Prefixing a remote event with '*' means it should only
  be performed if you have Ops on the event channel.
9.Optimized Text Copy routine - now faster/smoother.
10.Fixed divide by zero gpf in /pop routine.
11.Modified Op status checking routine.
12.Added a font dialog.
13.Width of user listbox in channel is now measured properly to
   take account of fixed/variable width fonts.
14.Improved mode-change handling routine.
15.ON ACTION now works for actions (same structure as ON TEXT).
16.Using $* improperly would result in a gpf.
17.The "Always get IP address on connect" wasn't working.
18.A /me now cannot be sent without a message.
19.Cleaned up several routines, removed potential GPFs & other problems.
   (most of which were detected while compiling the 32-bit version)
20.Double-clicking on a servername in Setup dialog is same as
   selecting Connect.
21.Now available in a 32-bit version (with optional air-conditioning).
22.Added /wavplay <sound.wav> command.
23.Two bugs in Getting IP address routines were fixed.
24.Fixed unknown mode oo bug.
25.The ON OP/SERVEROP/DEOP were noticing only the first opped nick.
26.Address as returned by a /whois now has an @ sign.
27.Added $cb parameter, which refers to the first 256 characters
   of current clipboard contents.
28.The /flood command now inhibits only specific types of replies to
   the server eg. replies to Remote/events/ctcp (basically, replies
   triggered by other users).
29.Made random delay auto-op an option in the options dialog.
30.A user in the remote user list can now have multiple access levels:
   5,=10,=15,=17:*!*@host
   1) The first level in the list is treated normally and can be anything.
   2) The remaining levels are treated as = levels (even if you dont put the
      = infront of them).
31.Finger window popup menu now shows the last 5 fingered addresses
   for quick selection.
32.Now prevents Channel list window being closed while a listing is being made.
33.The mode change checking routines have been improved.
34.Cleaned up/Improved popup menu positioning routine.
35.Added /rlevel <level> command which removes all users with the specified
   access level from the remote user list.
36.Fixed problem with extra spaces being appended to sent lines.
37./omsg and /onotice can now take an optional channel argument.
   eg. /omsg [#channel] <message>
38.Windows opening in mIRC are now not given focus if mIRC is not the
   active application.
39.Text in remote dialog is displayed more quickly now.
40./ignore now also ignores all notices. This means you can't do ctcp on
   any person you ignore since a reply to a ctcp is a notice.
41.Added $server, $ip, and $host as identifiers.
42.Can now define groups of commands/events in the remote:
   #2 start
   1:ON JOIN:...
   1:ON TEXT:...
   #2 end
   You can use /enable #2 or /disable #2 to enable/disable group #2.
   A disabled group is ignored by the remote.
   You cannot have groups within groups.
43.Now shows User mode in status window title.
44.The READ command in the fileserver now does paging (default of 20 lines)
   and prompts user whether to continue listing or to stop. User can specify
   optional paging size with: read [-numberoflines] <file.txt>
45.The READ fileserver command now also allows reading of any file.
46.Control-Home/End now moves to top/bottom of window text buffer.
   Control-Page Up/Down moves up/down line-by-line.
47.Can now do /help <commandname> for most commands mirc knows.
48.Each window now has a 20 line command history buffer, use Cursor Up/Down
   in single-line editbox, or Control-Up/Down in multi-line editbox.
49.Protect-list bug fixed.
50./ruser nick! now removes any address beginning with nick! in the
   user list.
51.Can now handle multiple /ban and /guser commands one after the other.
52.Can now also specify *N1-N2 or $parmN1-N2. For a horrible example, see:
   1:TEST:/notice $1 *1 *2-6 *9:$nick $parms $parm1 $parm1* $parm3-5 $parm4-9
53:Optimized text display routines.
54.Fixed the undernet /uwho X gpf.
55.Fixed % problem with actions.
56.Improved output of /finger <address> routine, now expands tabs and
   inserts empty lines in the correct places.
57.Fixed gpf bug in handling of KILLs.
58.Added a crude ON MODE/SERVERMODE to react to a *channel* mode change.
   1!:ON MODE:#mirc:-spmi+lktn 20 mykey:/notice *1:$nick Illegal mode change!
   When someone changes the channel mode, mIRC enforces the above
   channel mode instead, and sends the user a notice.
59.Now removes redundant spaces from lines in the Options dialog.
60.Fixed disappearing popups/commands/events problem.
61.Improved /ruser command so that it can work like /ban and /guser.
   /ruser <nick> [type]   if you do NOT specify a type, then it works
   as usual and removes the specified nick from the user list. If you
   DO specify a type, it looks up the users address and removes that
   address from the user list.
62.Now correctly initiates a DCC CHAT using 'chat' as opposed to
   the originators name.
63.Improved Channel List Window Popup menu. Added a dialog which
   allows you to respecify the list parameters to relist the window
   without having to do a relist from the server.
64.Fixed "Error sending data" at end of transfer with fast send turned on.

29/06/1995 - mIRC v3.42 (minor update)

Changes:
1.Fixed Beeping saving/loading beep settings using only nickname
  and not the whole line in 'DCC Chat with krejt'.
2.The Local Host name can now be changed while online.
3.The /ban command did not allow processing of following commands.
4.Fixed 'Enter' bug in single-line editbox (?).
5.If "Show quits in channel" wasn't checked, user would not be
  removed from channel namelist when user quits.
6.Unbanning in the /channel dialog now unbans 3 users at a time
  in one mode command instead of one user at a time.
7.Added Options->Auto-Op random pausing (up to 7 seconds).
8.Minimized get icon now shows nickname.
9.Fixed server ports being reset to 6667.
10.Fixed the /msg =nickname gpf bug.
11.Added * to beginning of username in /ban addresses.
12.Changed /finger method slightly.
13.Added /pop <delay> [#channel] <nickname> command which performs
   a paused op on the specified user within a random number of seconds.
14.A DCC Chat window is only given focus on connection if it is
   the active window, otherwise it just beeps once.
15.Can now do /help <topic>.
16.Fileserver was ignoring <max gets> parameter and limited users to
   get only one file at a time.
17.Optimized routine for handling mode changes.
18.Fixed ON NOTICE bug.
19.Fixed /uwho (is operator) bug and /uwho ctcp bug.
20.Fileserver: if file has no extension then '.' is automatically
   added to user get request filename.
21.Improved voiced/opped display of nicks but still when a user is
   deopped and has a voice, things mess up.
22.Now automatically shortens your nicknames to the maximum length
   allowed by the server you connect to.
23.Fixed bug with /ban after using the /auser command.
24.Rewrite of INI reading routines in the hope of fixing gpf's
   and other weird problems that are being caused by this.
25.Changed timing of Misc->Options->perform commands, now sends
   commands right after end of MOTD.

21/06/1995 - mIRC v3.3, v3.4

Changes:
1.Fixed line splitting in single line editbox.
2./describe now displays as a normal action if you are on
  the channel that you are sending to.
3.Can now do 1!:ON TEXT:etc... which means this command should not
  react to any events caused by me.
4.Added alternative join/part/quit format option.
5.Fixed :! gpf.
6.Fixed $opnick problem.
7.Directories are now sorted in DCC Send dialog.
8.Can now specify directory for mirc.ini file on command line.
9.Notify routine now checks for a blank line!
10.Server name is now shown in status window title bar.
11.Fixed $parms not being passed on with a :> directive.
12.Added /add [-apuce] filename.ini and /save filename.ini
   which load in alias, popups, and remote user, command, and event sections from
   the specified INI file. The /save saves all of these five sections to the
   specified INI file.
13.Added $me as an alias parameter which refers to your nickname.
14.Added option to append text to application title bar.
15.Can use ; or REM to comment out lines in the remote/event sections.
16.Now connects even if unable to get your local host name but was still able to
   get your ip address (should have done this a long time ago!).
17.Added a /raw command which sends any parameters you supply directly to the server.
   You MUST know the correct RAW format to use this command.
18.Added /omsg and /onotice commands which send a message to all channel operators
   on the current channel. eg. /omsg Hello there!  These are limited to users with Op status.
19.Can now specify max. number of lines in scrollback buffer.
20.Fixed bug in the /auto, /notify, /ignore, and /protect storage routines.
21.Can now minimize a window quickly by pressing the Escape key (option).
22.Added /timer1 to /timer9 commands in the format:
   /timerN <repetitions> <delay in seconds> <commands to be performed>
   eg. /timer1 30 /ame is AWAY!
23.Status window can now remember minimized/maximized position.
24.DCC Chat window is now not minimized if it is initiated by you.
25.Added crude /flood control, format: /flood <numberoflines> <seconds> <pausetime>.
   Prevents mIRC from sending any lines to the server if it has sent too
   many lines in a specified number of seconds. These lines are NOT stored,
   they are lost.
26.Fixed problem with $ followed by letters not being displayed. eg. $SHELL
   ($ followed by a number is always assumed to be a parameter).
27.Added: +2:ON JOIN:etc... the + limits this command to only level 2 users.
28.Added Select File/Directory dialog to Add, Extras, and DCC Options dialogs.
29.Fixed weird DCC-related bug in input routine...?
30.Added ON SERVEROP event eg. 1:ON SERVEROP:#:/msg *1:$me $opnick was opped by $nick
   where $nick refers to the server that did the opping.
31.Added /closemsg <nickname> command to close message windows with a certain nickname.
32.Fixed USER not enough parameters problems.
33.Each window now stores it's own previous line (using /).
   Using / brings back last line typed in current window.
   and /! brings back last line typed in any window.
34.Finger server now uses different method to do a finger which might solve
   problems some people were having.
35.Can now use either the IP address or the Hostname of an IRC server.
36.DCC Send icon now shows nickname.
37.Added option "Reconnect on disconnection".
38./help now brings up mirc.hlp file irc commands section.
39.Now removes strange characters from users name when logging.
40.Can now use $parm1* just like the $1* parameter.
41.Fixed /uwho "is operator" bug.
42.Windows can be resized to a smaller size.
43.Fixed DO problem.
44.Quit in a channel now just shows nickname and quit message.
45./join #this_is_a_test_of_brigs_bug has been fixed.
   But there's still a limit of how long a channel name can be!
46.Fixed buildup of %'s when recalling previous line.
47.Added -c switch to /play command to allow playing of commands.
48.If resizing window and you're at the bottom of the buffer
   it stays at the bottom after the resizing.
49.Fixed problem with silent disconnections (i think).
50.Quit now uses a default message of (Leaving).
51.Fixed occasional window text not being updated?
52.Added Beeping option to Chat/Channel/Query window system menus which
   overrides Options "Beep on Message" setting. Each window remembers
   it's beeping setting.
53.Added ON NOTIFY event. eg. 1:ON NOTIFY:/msg *1:$me $nick is on IRC!
54.Added /log on/off command for logging windows to file.
55.Added $+ parameter which means append the next parameter without
   inserting a space before it.
57.Fixed /stats problem.
58.Fixed 1:*:! problem.
59.Added /fserve <nickname> <maxgets> <homedirectory> <welcome.txt> for fileserver.
60.Fileserver improvements:
   1) now sends 30 second timeout warning to idle user.
   2) Directories are now listed horizontally in wide listing.
   3) If user does ls -4 and then does ls the -4 is remembered.
   4) Can do ls -[k|b] for listing in K's or bytes.
   5) Greatly improved fserve routines.
   6) Prevents a user having more than one fileserver session open.
   7) Directories/files are now sorted.
61.Greatly improved dynamic memory allocation.
62.Made change to the ON TEXT event. The search text should now be
   specified in the following manner: eg. 1:ON TEXT:text:#mirc:/msg *1:etc...
   where text is:
   =text   - if user said only this word
   text*   - if user started line with this word
   *text   - if user ended line with this word
   *text* or text  - if user said this word anywhere
63.Added 5:ON OP:= which means that any level 5 or higher users will not get a
   reaction from a lower level ON OP when they are opped. Works with other
   events and remote definitions as well.
64.Cleaned up/optimized/rewrote many many routines.
65.Fixed gpf when window is closed while popupmenu is up.
66.Fixed "Unable to send query to server" problem(?)
67.Fixed /auser /ruser being lost if Cancel pressed in remote dialog.
68.Can now select a maximum of 9 files to send in DCC send dialog.
   Also added a minimize option to minimize all DCC send windows.
69.Fixed bugs in INI reading routines.
70.Added /guser <level> <nick> [type] command which does the same thing
   as /auser but does a /whois on the specified nickname first and then
   adds their address to the remote user list.
71.Remote DCC Send window closes if other user closes connection.
72.If a DCC Get window is waiting for a resume acknowledgement and
   times out then the window is closed.
73.Speeded up text update in windows significantly.
74.Added /exit command which forces mIRC to closedown.
75.Now removes directory prefix from a DCC Get file.
76.Major DCC Send improvements.
77.Added /fsend [on|off] an experimental fast DCC send option.
78.Added /ulist which lists users in the remote list with specific access levels.
79.Fixed /oper command.
80.Changed /ban types (1 to 4). Also /ban with no type bans the
   whole address with no wildcards. Banning an IP address now adds
   a wildcard to the last ip number.
81.Added/Fixed other things I forgot to write down...

02/05/1995 - mIRC v3.2

Changes:
1.gpf on join to undernet fixed.
2.gpf on joining channel with too long a topic fixed.
3.Added title specification to parameter box, eg.: /j /join $?="Enter channel name:"
4.Can now use Page Up/Down keys to scroll through buffer.
5.Fixed spaced out /who result.
6.Now cannot prevent the standard ctcp version reply being given.
7.Can now build as many levels of popup menus as required.
8.Added Query/Chat popup menu.
9.Added extra double-click options.
10.Added auto-close send window option.
11.A remote send window now closes if other party cancels get.
12.Idle time wasnt working in single-line edit box.
13.Sockets weren't being closed properly.
14.Fixed problem with directory and slash.
15.added /channel command for channel central (only works in a channel).
16.Added ability to view/change topic in Channel Central.
17.Editboxes thinned down for Win95.
18.Changed dialog borders to reflect standard practise.
19.Added ... to menu items to reflect standard practise.
20.gpf on nick collision fixed??
21.Timer now updates in the timer window when online.
22.Can now do both  /ban nickname  or   /ban #channel nickname
23.Complete rewrite of editbox routine. Can now paste properly.
24.Added "You are Op/Not Op" to channel central window.
25.Fixed problem in win95 with title disappearing when window is minimized.
26.Fixed remote :*: responding to an action command. (oops :)
27./server with no parameters connects to the last specified server.
28.Fixed problem with | alias seperator placed after a *1 *2 etc.
29.Fixed problem with DO remote command.
30.Remote can now handle commas etc. stuck to identifiers eg.
   1:WHOAMI:/notice *1:$nick You are $nick, your address is $address.
31.Added #$ parameter type. Prefixes the parameter with a #.
   cannot be used in a multi-command. eg #$* but can do #?1="Say what?"
32.Added $! parameter type. Refers to the last line you entered in
   the entry parameter window.
33.Added /amsg and /ame which do an All channel message and All channel action.
34.Last used server in the Setup window is moved to top of list.
35.If mirc.ini is not found in windows dir but found in current dir then it is
   automatically copied to windows dir without asking user.
36.Added "Fast Ack" in DCC Opts window for non-compliant winsocks.
37.Dialogs are now positioned a little higher in Win95 above menu bar at bottom of screen.
38.Now allows leading spaces in text to channel/query/chat windows.
39.Fixed problem with cursor not showing in editbox??
40.Iconized Win95 windows do not flash anymore but are drawn highlighted with
   a red rectangle.
41.Addresses must now be standard form eg. *!*user@host
42.Can now do /dcc send <nickname> <file1> <file2> <file3> ... <fileN>
43.Added /beep <number> <delay> command.
44.Fixed gpf bug with malformed DCC Send requests.
45.Added simple Event handler to remote section.
46.Other bits I can't remember...

23/04/1995 - mIRC v3.1

Changes:
1.Added /ctcp $* performs command on all parameters.
2.Remembers if main window was iconized.
3.Added "finger" popup for finger window.
4.Fixed mistake in graphics routine. Update is now faster.
5.Windows open up in a more "windows" like fashion now.
6.User listbox now lists all people on large channels.
7.Using main menus under certain setups wasn't working properly.
8.Cancel away on keypress now ONLY cancels if you say
  something in a channel or a query.
9.Fixed finger client so can finger VMS hosts etc.
10.Added new user warning about mirc.ini file.
11.Can now do aliases such as: /laugh /me laughs at $1's joke
12.Added timeout to chat/get confirm dialog.
13.DCC sessions now show only a nickname.
14.USER login to IRC was working but not correct.
16.Improved Editbox: Can now enter multiple lines with a paste
   and they will be sent correctly.
17.Fixed Auto-Op wild-card routine.
18.Fixed beeping when windows are maximized & windows don't scroll.
19.Fixed small bug in /join command, now allows key.
20.Notify now tells you if no one in your list is on IRC.
21.Added User info window as the command /uwho <nickname>.
22.Internal reorganization and cleaning up.
23.PASS password to server was incorrect.
24.Added /msg =nickname for DCC chat.
25.Added /play command.
26.Added /describe command.
27.Major improvement of screen update, speed has more than doubled.
28.Added option to use windows colours.
29.DCC Send by remote is automatically minimized.
30.Now tries three different ways to get local host and ip address.
31.Red rectangle is drawn around icons of windows with pending messages.
   For Windows 95 the iconized window flashes instead.
32.Now changed so that can have only ONE chat session with the same user.
33.If user replies to a /dcc chat request by initiating another DCC
   chat then mIRC treats this as an acceptance of it's own request.
34.You can now ignore addresses as well as nicks.
35.Remote DCC's close windows automatically on finish.
36.Added DCC timeout options.
37.Added #string parameter to /list command.
38.Fixed problem with moderated channels and +nicknames.

26/03/1995 - mIRC v2.8c etc...

Changes:
1.Added wild cards for auto-op.
2.If a user changes nicks while in a query to you and they are on
  the same channel as you, mIRC uses the nickname change notification
  to update the query window name so you can keep talking to the person.
3.When a query is received and it is iconized, the icon is placed
  above all other windows so you can see it.
4.Scroll bars have been made a standard size and moved a little bit to
  make them look neater.
5.ban command now has 4 levels of ban. eg. /ban <nickname> <number>
  where <number> is a value 0 to 3.
6.The /server command can now take Port and Password parameters.
  for example, /server irc.server.co.uk 6667 password
7.Added "Use Dedicated Message Window" option. private messages go
  only to this window.
8."Notices" work more intelligently now and will appear in a channel
  window if sent by someone on that channel. Otherwise they are sent
  to the status window as usual.
9.mIRC now listens for identd requests and replies using the
  userid part of your email address as a UNIX system.
10.Font and Window position can now be saved for the Message Window
   and logging/saving to proper filename now.
11.Was GPFing on a nick collision. Oops :)
12.Added channel modes to ban list routine. Much more useful now!
13.Added context-sensitive F1 help key.
14.Added new alias parameter type.
   $$ = parameter MUST be filled. If it is not filled, command is not executed.
   Before, /whois $1 was executed even if no parameter was given.
   Now, /whois $$1 will only be executed if you supply a parameter.
15.Can now also do  $$?1  or $?1  which means, try to fill this
   value with parameter one if it exists. If parameter one doesnt exist,
   ask for it.
16.Fixed problem with copy/paste routine. MUCH faster now.
17.Fixed font problem with text not showing in Editbox when in windows
   screen with large font setting.
18.Added DCC Resume capability. non-standard.
19.Allows multiple select in ban list.
20.Fixed dialog positioning when in different screen modes.
21.Added option to prefix own messages with own nick.
22.Would gpf if popup menu definition was incomplete. fixed.
23.Double-click in a query window does a /whois.
24.Added small popup menu to channel list window.

21/03/1995 - mIRC v2.8b (not released)

Changes:
1.the % character can now be used.
2.help file had a few mistakes in it.
3.a /msg results in outgoing message being shown
   in the correct window.
4.added option "Beep on message while in buffer".
5./hug /me *hugs* $1 now works.
6.allow /query etc commands in DCC chat window.
7.problems handling /msg and other commands.
8.dissallow changing nickname and alternate in setup when online.
9.log files werent being closed properly.
11.enlarged Popup menus window.
12.refined appearance of /msg /notice/ etc. commands.
13.aliases had a bug or three.
14.added [x] minimize to auto-accept chat request.
15.ctcp ping seconds working properly now.
16.query window sometimes opened up VERY small due to saving
   window size while it was iconized.
17.Changed query/chat windows so that only one default font
   is saved.
18.Changed "beeping" method to minimize number of beeps.
19.File logging was messed up.
20.Speeded up display of popupmenu definitions in popup dialog.
21.text wrapping wasn't taking notice of mid variable.
22.changed minimum window size depending on whether it
   is a channel or not.
23.now remembers default size for channel windows.
24.fixed problem with previous-line routine.
25.added /dcc packetsize command. All memory for DCC Send/Get
   sessions now allocated dynamically.
26.when a window is maximized, widths weren't set properly for
   any other windows beneath it.

18/03/1995 - mIRC v2.7a

Changes:
1.Changed dblclk ban list routine again.
2.Variable assignment was wrong in open window routine.
  Caused windows to behave strangely and gpf.
3.Changed query & msg commands. /msg does not open a
  window, /query does.
4.Added beeping on query & notice options.
5.The INI filename specified on the command line was not
  working for some mIRC features.
6.DCC sessions were not being closed properly, ie. files
  in some cases would be left open.
7.Cosmetic changes - moved some options to extras dialog
  and other stuff.
8.Invite command wasn't working properly.
9.Corrected mistakes in the mirc.ini file.
10.Query window size wasn't being saved.
11.mIRC wasn't closing all DCC connections on quit.
12.Now prevents duplicate server entries in setup dialog.
13.Some windows are now more intuitively centered on opening.
14.Now shows number of channels as they are being listed.
15.Some windows were opening only in the top left corner.
   Window positioning is hopefully better now.
16.QUIT and AWAY commands weren't setting message properly.
17.Added /LEAVE (like /PART. command for compatibility.
18.Again changed optimization switches in compiler. Previous
   settings caused more problems than I thought...
19.Can now open mutiple DCC Chat sessions with the same person.
20.Option to show Quits in channel window.
21.now shows /msgs that you send.
22.when doing a "reset position" window is placed neatly inside
   main window even if saved position was outside it.
23.Changed /protect etc. to work using on and off.
34.Added option to highlight own messages.
25.Aliases with a * in them weren't working properly.
26.About dialog now disappears on keypress.
27.Can now continue DCC chats if disconnected from IRC.
28.After disconnection, on reconnect to IRC, only channel windows
   are closed. All other windows remain open.
29./SERVER command now works. (can use in popup menus!)
30.Bugs in file handling routines.
31.Bug in Channels list routine.
32.Iconify query window option.
33.beeps if message in channel and you are not at bottom of buffer.
34.Added whois option on a query.
35.If talking in query window and person logs off IRC,
   informs you nick is invalid *in* query window.
36.when not at bottom of buffer and a channel message
   is printed, highlighting for copy/paste now stays on.
37.Enlarged alias window.
38.Alias window now shows number of aliases entered.

Possible Bugs/Annoyances:
1.Text in window sometimes goes blank or isn't updated properly.
2.Text sometimes prints over the scrollbar slightly.
3.Multiple DCC sends/gets might not work properly.

13/03/1995 - mIRC v2.6b (a dud version - was unstable)

Changes:
1.Finger routine wasn't being cancelled properly.
2.Now allows user to enter their own IP address.
3.Certain windows would beep on closing (definitely fixed now!)
4.Routine for printing text in window majorly optimized and cleaned up.
5.Listbox popup menu would popup even if a user wasn't selected.
6.Cleaned up the retrieve ban list routine.
7.Winsock startup routine wasn't being initialized properly.
8.Copy/Paste routine has changed. No longer need to press the shift key.
9.QUIT wasn't appending quit message.
10.Child windows were being positioned outside main window.
11.Spotted and fixed oh so sneaky bug in word wrap routine.
12.DCC Send/Get Directories default to same directory as mirc.exe.
13.Can now specify directory for logs and buffer saves.
14.Mode change with multiple settings wasn't working.
15.Can now specify on the command line the name of the INI file to
   use. Default name is "mirc.ini". This means you can have different
   INI files for different nets.
16.Added /! command, recalls previous command.
17.Cleaned up the help file, made IRC commands section readable.
18.Now compiling with different optimization switches. This
   automatically fixed around 5 "bugs" !!!

08/03/1995 - mIRC v2.5a

Changes:
1.added "always retrieve local host" option for people who have
  dynamic IP addresses!
2.channel mode in title is permanently on. not an option anymore.
3.Added ctcp USERINFO command for compatibility. However, it returns
  the same information as a ctcp finger command.
4.moved some options to different windows were they made more sense.
5.added /finger and /auto commands.
6.fixed problem with releasing memory... popup menus weren't
  being freed properly so mIRC would lose as much memory as
  the size of the popup menus defined by the user. With the
  mirc.ini that comes with the program, this turned out to be
  3k+ of system resources everytime the program is run.
7.the MODE for channel mode changes gets messy when lots of
  mode changes occur. cleaned it up.
8.Window names in Window menu would not switch to the correct
  window when selected.
9.Text buffers for windows were not being freed properly.
10.Can now set the default font for the status/finger/list windows
   from their system menu. Only the DCC Send/Get windows have to
   be set from the font dialog window.
11.added auto-log option for channels and query/DCC chat.
12.Commands such as /finger and /run can now be used off-line.
13.Corrected some mistakes in the mirc.ini file.

05/03/1995 - mIRC v2.4a

Changes:
1.major update of window handling - made more robust.
2.notify would keep notifying even if it was still waiting
  for previous notify to be returned by server.
3.popup menu positioning was incorrect in some situations.

02/03/1995 - mIRC v2.3a

Changes:
1.DCC get received file okay but closed connection too early.
2.DCC send/get/chat were re-initiating arrays too early,
  didn't cause problems but made the program beep everytime you
  closed a window because the array was empty.
3.some debug information was being printed! Arrrrgh! forgot to
  turn off the debug switch in the first release.
4.updated help file with description of previously coded but
  forgotten items.
5.In DCC get, if sender client did not specify size of file
  (which it should!. then mIRC said the size was zero bytes.
  Now it just says [unknown].
6.highlighting now works properly.
7.".." previous directory wasnt showing up in DCC send dialog.
8.the channel listbox wasnt adding/removing nicks properly.
9.double-click for ban list. clicking twice only in the SAME
  place now brings ban list up.
10.added option to display file size instead of percent complete
   in DCC send/get transfers.
11.fixed timer display: wasnt displaying timer after nick change.
12.adds "/nick " to editbox if both nicks collide on login.
13.DCC send/get had problems with packet size. fixed.
14.other cosmetic changes.

28/02/1995 - mIRC v2.1a

First public release.
