Introduction In the golden era of Internet Relay Chat (IRC), mIRC was the undisputed king of Windows clients. While many remember mIRC for its simple chat interface, a dedicated subculture remembers it for something far more competitive: scripting . Among the thousands of scripts released over the last three decades, few names carry the weight of one specific file: Scoop Script mIRC .
on *:text:!request *:#: queue.add $2 $nick msg # $nick Added to queue. Type !send when ready.
alias queue.send var %nick = $1 var %i = 1 while (%i <= $ini(queue.ini,$+(%nick,.queue),0)) var %file = $readini(queue.ini,$+(%nick,.queue),$ini(queue.ini,$+(%nick,.queue),%i)) send %nick %file %i = %i + 1 scoop script mirc
on *:text:!find *:#myracechannel: scoop.search $2- --> Returns: [10GB] Movie.2024.DVDRip.XviD.avi (3 secs ago)
on *:text:!send:#: queue.send $nick
This lacks the UDP racing and multi-threading but demonstrates the logic Scoop perfected. The scoop script mirc is more than a piece of code; it is a time capsule of early internet competition and ingenuity. For a decade, it transformed a chat client into a high-performance file distribution network. It taught thousands of users about raw sockets, queue theory, and the limits of TCP/IP.
scoop.race var %file = C:\Race\$(1).rar if ($exists(%file)) echo -a Racing $1 to $2 .timer 1 0 socket -c sendfile %file $2 1337 Introduction In the golden era of Internet Relay
; Minimal File Queue System ; Save as queue.mrc alias queue.add var %file = $1, %nick = $2 writeini queue.ini $+(%nick,.queue) %file $ctime echo -a Added %file to %nick's queue
