I wanted to update Appendix B “Notes on logfiles” from the installation guide, because except for mIRC all the other IRC clients have logging set up by typing commands whereas for mIRC it has to be done through the GUI.
To straiten this out, I installed mIRC on a Windows box, created a copy of the original config file, than ran mIRC and configured logging according to the instructions in appendix B. I than finally compared the new config file with the copy.
I was surprised at first to find out that mIRC doesn’t store all the changed settings as separate variables, but instead uses a set of obscured serialized variables that hold more than one setting each.
Then I realized that for this reason Martijn (a supporter and contributor to the project) had to incorporate the instructions for mIRC as a GUI walk through, rather than listing commands that the user must type (as is the case with the other clients). A real bummer.
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