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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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