rufty

In mIRC, it should have the following on the menubar.

• 1. Click on Tools
• 2. Click on Options

That should bring up a window as follows

• 1. Click Connect
• 2. Click Options
• 3. Click Perform, brings up a window
• 4. Ensure 'Enable Perform on Connect' is ticked
• 5. Enter '/msg q@cserve.quakenet.org auth username password' replacing username and password with your own
• 6. Click OK, closes the perform window
• 7. Click OK, closes options

That should perform connect when you connect to quakenet. There are various other things you can put into the perform box line-per-line, such as '/join #rufty' autojoins #rufty on each connect.