Written by Nathan Roberts and Richard Poser
Latest version: Beta000324, 3/24/00
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K9 is mirrored at the following locations:
K-9 is a multipurpose all-round protection/convenience script for the IRC
client mIRC. It has the following features:
- Protects you from being deopped, kicked, or banned, including coming back
and deopping the offender. (DALnet only, you must be an AOP or above on
the channel)
- Automatically invites you to channels you're an AOP on (DALnet only)
- Automatically unbans you from channels you're an AOP on (DALnet only)
- Automatically identifies you to NickServ (DALnet)
- Automatically kills your ghosts (DALnet)
- Formats the output of many DALnet service lists (such as AOP lists,
SOP lists, AKick lists, and Access lists) and displays them in a
popup window
- Protects you from being flooded by CTCP requests
- Provides an auto-away system that marks you as being away after a given
time
- Provides the ability to mark yourself away with just a few keystrokes,
including the ability to keep a list of preset away messages
- Provides an auto-quit system that can disconnect you after a given
time (Fully configurable)
- Provides the ability to quit easily including the ability to keep a
list of preset quit messages
- An autokick system that will automatically kick users with a matching
nick or mask
- A semiautomatic pervert scanner, which checks anyone that joins a channel
for certain words in the channels they are on
- A semiautomatic bad word checker, which allows you to quickly kick
someone for swearing
- A pager that allows someone to get your attention when you're away from
the keyboard
- A system to easily let you grab .WAV files that other people play
- An event sounds system that alerts you when someone joins or parts
a channel, and more
- Configurable Random PING response system
- A multitude of shortcut commands and aliases
- Fully configurable with a nice setup interface
- Context-sensitive help system
- /LOADable
Changes in Beta000324:
- Added dialog frontends for DALnet Memoserv. Right-click a window and look at
the Memos submenu.
Changes in Beta000211:
- Fixed a bug that caused the "clear modes" menu item not to clear
the channel key
- Fixed a bug that caused the AOP, SOP, AKICK, and ACCESS lists not to
work, due to a change in services messages.
Thanks a lot again, services programmers :P
- Autoquit now gives you a one-minute warning before disconnecting you.
You can remain online by entering something, or by pressing F6
- Now K9 can invite himself past a channel key (mode +k), thanks to a
change in DALnet ircd
- Replaced the old version numbering system with something hopefully
more sane
To upgrade K9, download the lite package.
K9 was originally written by Nathan
Roberts. Nathan once again has access to a network-capable
Windows box, and is now maintaining it again. It is also being
maintained by Richard Poser <whomiga@missingpiece.com>.
The main design philosophy behind K9 is, only put in useful stuff. K9
doesn't suffer the bloat of many other scripts for mIRC. (One script
that I won't name is a total of 8 megabytes. Compressed.) Other
design philosophies behind K9 are:
- The user should have complete control over the script. Many
features are "semi-automatic." That is, most of the things K9 does
are not done automatically. Typically K9 will alert the user to
something, and the user has only to press a single key to confirm the
action. The result: A script which combines the power of scripts with
human discretion.
- A script should be for defense, not attack. K9 is a peaceful
script. It has no war capabilities, but will defend you from certain
attacks.
First of all, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE mIRC 5.61! You can download it from
http://www.mirc.co.uk
To upgrade K9, download the K9LITE.ZIP file. Shut down mIRC if it's
running. Uncompress the file into the K9 directory, overwriting all
files. Start mIRC, and type "/load -rs k9a.mrc" (the same load command
as when you first loaded it.)
Note: It seems that the latest versions of mIRC have the /run command
locked by default. This prevents the "K9 Documentation" command
from working properly. If you wish to change this, go to
File | Options, go to the Lock settings (under the General tree),
and unlock the run command
The K9 distribution comes in two flavors: Regular (172k) and Lite
(77k). The lite version is missing the sound files for the event
sound system and the ping responses.
K9 can be downloaded from the following sites:
Latest Beta version:
Nathan's page usually contains the latest version. Check and make sure the
site you're on has the latest version before you download it.
Remember that this is beta software and
may still probably will have bugs. Please report any
you find. However, my small group of beta testers have been using
it for months, without incident.
If you want to spread the word about K9, a link to Nathan's page
(http://www.tardislabs.com/k9/) would be appreciated. If you're so inclined,
several "stickers" have been provided below, which you can use to link to this page.
![[#1]](k9button.gif) |
k9button.gif |
The original sticker, designed by Jason Fraser |
![[#2]](k9anim.gif) |
k9anim.gif |
Animated sticker, designed by Richard H. Poser II |
![[#3]](k9anim2.gif) |
k9anim2.gif |
Another animated sticker, designed by Nathan Roberts |
Following is a sample snippet of code to include the button and link on
your page:
<a href="http://www.tardislabs.com/k9/">
<img src="FILENAME.gif" alt="[K9 for mIRC]" width=88 height=31 border=0>
</a>
Replace FILENAME.gif with the name of the file you downloaded
The maintainers would like to thank the unofficial K9 beta test team:
- Richard "Whomiga" Poser
- Kris "The_Anti" Herzog
- Shel Wolf
- Brian Morris
- Bill Thompson
- Peter Fagan
- Adrean McCann
- Janet Eaton
- Talus Young