Using mIRC 7.1.

IRC Server may constraint message's length, but mIRC client doesn't seems aware of it.

This is maybe not a mIRC bug, but maybe a server specific behavior. I was testing some text catching script and while testing, I found out my text was either spread on multiple line or that it was truncated.

This was done on EFNet, #test100

First case:

If I send a text message to the channel:
This is a test#1. This is a test#2. This is a test#3. This is a test#4. This is a test#5. This is a test#6. This is a test#7. This is a test#8. This is a test#9. This is a test#10. This is a test#11. This is a test#12. This is a test#13. This is a test#14. This is a test#15. This is a test#16. This is a test#17. This is a test#18. This is a test#19. This is a test#20. This is a test#21. This is a test#22. This is a test#23. This is a test#24. This is a test#25.

On the other side I see this:
[09:11] <ZokciM> This is a test#1. This is a test#2. This is a test#3. This is a test#4. This is a test#5. This is a test#6. This is a test#7. This is a test#8. This is a test#9. This is a test#10. This is a test#11. This is a test#12. This is a test#13. This is a test#14. This is a test#15. This is a test#16. This is a test#17. This is a test#18. This is a test#19. This is a test#20. This is a test#21. This
[09:11] <ZokciM> is a test#22. This is a test#23. This is a test#24. This is a test#25.

We can see that the message was spread in two message. Me the sender, I don't know that this happened. Might be nice to see it exactly the same as the other side see... but chance are it is a server behavior and there is no way to tell?

I tried the exact same test with a channel notice:
/notice #test100 This is a test#1. This is a test#2. This is a test#3. This is a test#4. This is a test#5. This is a test#6. This is a test#7. This is a test#8. This is a test#9. This is a test#10. This is a test#11. This is a test#12. This is a test#13. This is a test#14. This is a test#15. This is a test#16. This is a test#17. This is a test#18. This is a test#19. This is a test#20. This is a test#21. This is a test#22. This is a test#23. This is a test#24. This is a test#25.

On the other side I see this:
[09:13] -ZokciM:#test100- This is a test#1. This is a test#2. This is a test#3. This is a test#4. This is a test#5. This is a test#6. This is a test#7. This is a test#8. This is a test#9. This is a test#10. This is a test#11. This is a test#12. This is a test#13. This is a test#14. This is a test#15. This is a test#16. This is a test#17. This is a test#18. This is a test#19. This is a test#20. This is a test#21. This is a test#22. This is a test#23. This is a test#24

You can notice that the message was truncated at "[...] This is a test#24" and therefore is missing the ". This is a test#25." part. This is more problematic than the first case as the other side miss some part of the message.

If it is server specific behavior, then is there a way for mIRC to find out max message length, max notice length, etc.

Well that's.

Last edited by MickoZ; 29/09/10 04:54 AM.