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How can 2 users in the same household sign on if each has their own s/n ?

Sign on to what?

To pre-empt any reply assuming that there is only one computer, obviously only one person can use it at a time. If you are talking about mIRC's serial/key then this has nothing to do with how many people use it or how many times mIRC can be booted or logged in. Or if you have more than one computer and you are the actual owner of the computers you can use the serial on both copies as the mIRC licence, to my knowledge, does not specifically prohibit this.

Well, unless you have 2 computers you can't both use mIRC at the same time - you can both be logged on to IRC, but if you have one PC with one screen and one keyboard, you can't both type

However, you can always open 2 mIRC clients. Just open one, and then click the icon again and it will open a second. I don't remember about other OSs but I know Windows XP has multiple user logins, and you can switch between accounts without closing other programs in the other account. Go to Start > Control Panel > User Accounts.

Remember, if you both connect at the same time you will be connecting with the same hostname. Whilst 1 clone is not usually a bad thing and I don't know of any network that would /kill (disconnect you from the server) for it, if you both load individual bots you would have 3 clones and then you might be liable for a network ban (often called a G-Line or AKill). Some channels will ban you automatically for just one clone.

Just a general FYI for IRC 'netiquette', most people won't call IRC nicknames an s/n (screenname). S/Ns are usually left for MSN/AIM etc. There's a good IRC netiquette document here.

Hope this helps..

Regards,

if you mean how could two in the same house have different mIRC's with their own scripts, notify list, nickname etc, you could always set up two different mIRC directories. One could be mRC1 and the other mIRC2 and set icons for each one on your desktop.

Although, the user would then have to manage two lots of executables ....

.. probably easier to have different .ini (and associated script files) and use the "-i<inifile>" command line parameter in the desktop shortcuts.

The user can still set up different directories to hold the script/config files, probably even within their own document areas "My Documents".

This option then allows the use of a commmon script file or two (if wanted) between the users - again minimising administration !

Cheers,

DK

isnt it great there's more than one way to accomplish stuff, ppl can just use whatever is easiest to them

since i have an assortment of mIRC directories and shortcuts, guess that habit just always seems like the easiest way for me.