Forums mIRC Help Search for channel by topic?

Hi
I'm a total newbie. I just downloaded mIRC, and I'm currently learning how to use it. My question might sound really odd for someone who is more experienced than i am. Sorry about that.
Is there a way to search for a channel by topic? (some band, movie, book, etc)
Thank you

Sure is possible: /list *bookworms*

thank you
is there a way to perform a global search on all servers?

Do you mean perform the list command on all servers?
If so, /scon -a list *bookworms*.

You could check out these websites, they are a good resource to finding channels/networks.

http://irc.netsplit.de/
http://searchirc.com/

Hm... i'm currently on MusIRC and it seems to perform search only on that server.

Works perfectly fine for me, on 3 servers.

do i need to somehow close the connection to that server before i do the search?

No, /scon -a list *bookworm* should work if you have N server connections.

In Red means server connection(s).
In Green means -a which is the switch to signify all servers.
In Blue it means listing the channels with our *match text*.

I really don't understand why it wont list on all servers though, maybe you have a different of mIRC (before /scon was added) I'm not sure if it's a feature that's been in mIRC since the birth of the IRC client. But other than that I really an clueless.

You should make that -at1 so that this command is only performed on connected servers.

Greets

Good point.

/scon -at1 list *bookworms*

thank you both:)
but either way it seems to be searching only on that one server. what should be the initial settings to perform the search? anything special bout them? (because i'm using default settings)

Almost all methods of finding a channel are covered in this thread.

Regards,

I think she wants to perform a /list on all (Yes, literally) servers, not just the servers she's connected to.

LOL yes Is it possible?
And i'm a she

I'm afraid not, but if you look at searchirc.com you can search servers a lot quicker than you could if you connected to each one and did a /list.



My apologies

How could you do a list on a server where you aren't connected to? Doesn't make much sense to me.

Anyway, I gave her those two sites, though seems she might not have seen it.

I was going to bring that up but I thought I'd of souded dense. *shrugs* story of my life...

lol well, i've never used mIRC before, so don't know what it's capable (or not) of And i do appreciate ur help
is the /whois command only for a server i'm connected to atm?

Indeed, as the /list command, /whois only works if you are actually connected to a server.

Doing a whois means you are querying the server for information about the person you whois'ed, which then sends this information back to your client.

Since this is a server query, you must be connected.

To do a whois:

/whois <nickname> without the < >

If you want to see a person's idle time included in the whois, you'll have to do /whois <nickname> <nickname>

Greets