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       Talking to a gopher server in mIRC script
       April 06th, 2018
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       Using gopher in an mIRC script is darn easy... Here is an example
       script that could be put into the bot to connect to a gopher-based
       spell checking service...
       
       Lets start by creating an alias that will close any stale sockets and
       open a new TCP socket to a gopher server when called... in mIRC
       scripting it could be done like so:
       
       alias aspell {
         sockClose aspell
         sockOpen aspell gopher.zcrayfish.soy 70
       }
       
       Now lets set mIRC to listen for spell check requests when a user sends
       ``!spell someword'' to the channel:
       
       on *:TEXT:*:#: {
         if ( $1 == !spell ) {
           if ( $2 != $null ) {
             set %aspellchan $chan
             set %aspellreq $2
           aspell }
         }
       }
       
       Take our user's request and send it into the newly opened socket:
       
       on *:SockOpen:aspell: {
         sockwrite -nt aspell /aspell/plain.mole? $+ %aspellreq
         sockwrite -nt aspell $crlf
       }
       
       
       And finally, read the reply from the gopher server:
       
       on *:sockread:aspell:{
         if ($sockerr > 0) return
         while (1) {
           sockread %readaspell
           if ($sockbr == 0) return
           msg %aspellchan %readaspell
         }
       }
       
       
       My mIRC scripting isn't the best, but the example works just fine, you
       can see it in action in a few channels on UnderNet (/whois Rasalhague)
       or freenode (try #gopherproject or #devious)... The bot will respond
       to !spell
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