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Configuring Netscape to understand chat files.

    First you have to start both Netscape and mIRC..
    In Netscape go to the "Options" pull-down menu and select "General Preferences.."
    In the list of TABs at the top, select "Helpers"
    To be safe, scroll through the list of File types looking for "application/x-chat" and "application/x-nschat" in the leftmost column.
    If you can find one or both of these lines, then your copy of Netscape has already been set up to work with some chat application. This can be mIRC of course but also NetscapeChat, Chatman or GlobalChat. In this case you might only have to check if the "Launch the Application" option is set to launch the mIRCLink helper for both lines, and you are done.
    For both lines select the 'Browse..' button and select the mlink.exe or mlink32.exe found in the mIRC directory.

If no chat application was already configured to work with mIRC you can easily get mIRCLink to work. Select the 'Create New Type..' button and fill in :


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    		• Mime Type : application
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    		• Mime SubType : x-chat
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    		• File Extention : chat,cha (to assure proper use of local files)
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    		• Action : Launch the application : c:\mirc_directory\mlink.exe or mlink32.exe
    Do the same for the NetScape Chat files
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    		• Mime Type : application
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    		• Mime SubType : x-nschat (see the difference?)
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    		• File Extention : nsc (to assure proper use of local files)
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    		• Action : Launch the application : c:\mirc_directory\mlink.exe or mlink32.exe


       Now that you have set Netscape to start the mIRCLink helper application with the GlobalChat and NetscapeChat chat file types you can click OK.
       You're done now, Go ahead and explore the mIRCLinks on the WWW !
    Configuring MS-Internet Explorer to understand chat files.

        Similar to Netscape you have to set up MS-IE to understand what to do with the chat files that contain the mIRCLink info.
        First you have to start both mIRC and MS-IE..
        In MS-IE go to the "View" pull-down menu and select "Options.."
        In the list of TABs at the top, select "File Types"
        To be safe, scroll through the list of File types looking for "Chat Files". If you find an item like this then your copy of MS-IE has already been set up to work with some chat application. This can be mIRC of course but also NetscapeChat, Chatman or GlobalChat. In this case you just have to make sure that the "File Type Details" are set to Extention: .cha .chat Content Type: application/x-chat Open with: c:\path\mlink.exe or mlink32.exe
        Extention: .nsc Content Type: application/x-nschat Open with: c:\path\mlink.exe or mlink32.exe If no chat application was already configured to work with mIRC you can easily get mIRCLink to work. Select the 'Add..' button and fill in :


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    		• Description : Chat Files
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    		• Mime Type : application/x-chat
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    		• Suffixes : .chat .cha (to assure proper use of local files)
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    		• Encoding : Text
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    		• Helper Application : c:\mirc_directory\mlink.exe or mlink32.exe
    Do the same for the Netscape Chat files
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    		• Description : NetscapeChat Files
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    		• Mime Type : application/x-nschat (mind the difference)
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    		• File Extention : .nsc (to assure proper use of local files)
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    		• Encoding : Text
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    		• Action : Launch the application : c:\mirc_directory\mlink.exe or mlink32.exe


       Now that you have instructed MS-IE to start the mIRCLink helper application with the GlobalChat and NetscapeChat file types you can click OK and have fun with the mIRCLinks.