<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>Howto/mIRC</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2010-07-12 19:40:09</date><authorinitials>independence</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2010-07-12 19:36:44</date><authorinitials>independence</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>Using mIRC</title><para>This page will show you how to connect to Blinkenshell's IRC chat (<ulink url="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/mIRC/wiki/BlinkenIRC#">BlinkenIRC</ulink>) with the mIRC client. </para><para>Start by <ulink url="http://www.mirc.com/get.html">downloading</ulink> and installing mIRC. After mIRC is installed, you have to download OpenSSL to <ulink url="http://www.mirc.com/ssl.html">enable SSL support</ulink> in mIRC. </para><para>When you have mIRC and OpenSSL installed, you have to add the BlinkenIRC network since it's not in the default list that comes with mIRC. </para><para>Go into the options dialog, and select Connect -&gt; Servers. Add a new server: </para><para><inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/mIRC?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=mirc-add-network.png"/></imageobject><textobject><phrase>mirc-add-network.png</phrase></textobject></inlinemediaobject> </para><para>Select the new network/server, and connect to it: </para><para><inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/mIRC?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=mirc-select-network.png"/></imageobject><textobject><phrase>mirc-select-network.png</phrase></textobject></inlinemediaobject> <inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/mIRC?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=mirc-connect.png"/></imageobject><textobject><phrase>mirc-connect.png</phrase></textobject></inlinemediaobject> </para><para>Accept the SSL certificate: </para><para><inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/mIRC?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=mirc-ssl.png"/></imageobject><textobject><phrase>mirc-ssl.png</phrase></textobject></inlinemediaobject> </para><para>Join the #blinkenshell channel: </para><para><inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/mIRC?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=mirc-channel.png"/></imageobject><textobject><phrase>mirc-channel.png</phrase></textobject></inlinemediaobject> </para><para>Or you could add the channel to your favourites: </para><para><inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/mIRC?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=mirc-savechannel.png"/></imageobject><textobject><phrase>mirc-savechannel.png</phrase></textobject></inlinemediaobject> </para><!--rule (<hr>) is not applicable to DocBook--><para> <ulink url="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/mIRC/wiki/CategoryHowto#">CategoryHowto</ulink> </para></section></article>