however what i'm saying is that gzip built-in to mIRC would be like installing text-based chat into internet explorer, since Internet explorer is a browser not a chatting client, as mIRC is a chatting client not a browser.
well mozilla and opera have chat clients

and i believe the $compress function has more use compressing with gzip then with that raw compress method that probably can only be used by mirc it self.
It is my point of view of course...