IRCjr
(ver Mar 31 2023)
Freeware


mTCP software requires that a PC/TCP Packet driver be 
first installed, or it will refuse to load. Some mTCP 
software (in particular SNTP) can also read the Time 
Zone [TZ] information from the Environment variable.  

IRCjr is a Textual IRC client for DOS. IRCjr is not 
however a replacement for a full featured graphical 
IRC client, as it lacks file transfer capabilities, 
multiple connections to different servers, etc..  Yet 
for simple text-based chatting on a single server 
with multiple channels, IRCjr does the job very well.  


CAUTION: Before running IRCjr, you must include IRCjr 
specific parameters to the configuration file.  

mTCP software uses the mTCP TCP/IP stack (-not- WATTCP).     
mTCP software reads its configuration settings from a 
regular text file, to which you add valid parameters.  
You need to add a MTCPCFG Environment variable that 
points to this configuration file (specifically naming 
the file means it does not have to be called MTCP.CFG).  
A sample of this file is included (see- "SAMPLE.CFG").  
The Syntax is: 
	Set MTCPCFG=<path\filename.ext>


Note: DHCP leases will expire, so you if you are using 
a dynamic (rather than static) IP address assignment, 
you need to periodically re-run DHCP to get a new lease.  
mTCP programs will check for DHCP expiration by reading 
the "TIMESTAMP" (second line) in the configuration file, 
and will refuse to run (and display an expired message) 
if the lease is expired.  If you use a Static IP, you 
must remove (or comment-out with #) the TIMESTAMP line.


TIP: Unicode can be enabled in IRCjr.  Two example maps 
are included (cp437.txt and cp850.txt).  If used, you 
need to set an Environment variable to the map file.  
The Syntax is:
	SET MTCP_UNICODE_MAP=<path\mapfile.txt>