it has come to my attention that mirc6.1 now supports these function, however i cannot seem to find any documentation on the syntax of these or any other new function in the help file, any ideas? perhaps a list of all the new function supported by mirc, and where to find documentation on these.

$compress(file|&bvar, blN)
$decompress(file|&bvar, blN)
Compresses the specified file or binary variable. The result is raw compressed data.

Where b indicates a binary variable in the first parameter, and lN sets a compression level of 1 to 6 (default is 6). Returns 1 for sucess, 0 for failure.

^Taken straight from the mIRC helpfile.

Make sure you've replaced the old .hlp file with the new one!