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- From: A.J.Doherty@reading.ac.uk (A. J. Doherty)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.fsp,alt.answers,news.answers
- Subject: File Service Protocol (FSP) Frequently Asked Questions
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- Date: 19 Aug 1996 18:30:04 GMT
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- Summary: This posting contains a list of frequently asked questions
- (and their answers) about the FSP protocol. Please read this
- before you post to alt.comp.fsp.
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- Archive-name: fsp-faq/part1
- Last-modified: 1996/08/19
- Version: 1.1
- Frequency: Twice Monthly
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-
- File Service Protocol (FSP)
- Frequently Asked Questions
-
- (Last Updated: 25th June 1996)
-
- These are the answers to some of the frequently asked questions about FSP.
- Posted twice monthly to alt.comp.fsp, alt.answers and news.answers.
-
- This information is mostly compiled from the alt.comp.fsp newsgroup,
- although many other people and information sources also contribute. It is
- edited and prepared by Andy Doherty
- (A.J.Doherty@reading.ac.uk) - who is also the current maintainer of the FSP
- software.
-
- This FAQ may be found in the alt.comp.fsp newsgroup and from the news
- archives at rtfm.mit.edu . However, the most recent version will always be
- found at its WWW home of http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/faq/faq.htm
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- News:
-
- * The Beta 3 release of 2.8.1 will go to a full release at the end of
- August. At this time it will be distributed to distribution sites and
- will replace the 2.7.1 release. See
- http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/FSP281.htm for more details. If you know
- of any problems with this release then please report them now.
-
- * The Beta 4 release of an FSP server for Windows-95/Windows-NT is now
- available. See http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~glau/fspd/ for more
- information, or section 1.2 of this document.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Recent Additions: (Latest First)
-
- * Email Address Updates [4.3]
- * New Windows-95/Windows-NT FSP server [1.2]
- * What about FSP Software Updates ? [2.5]
- * Updates to Macintosh FSP client information [2.2.4]
- * Italian translation of FAQ available [6.1]
- * Updates to Macintosh FSP server information [1.2]
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Contents
-
- * 1: Introduction and Help
-
- o 1.1 What's alt.comp.fsp? What's FSP?
- o 1.2 Where can I get FSP?
- o 1.3 Help! I don't understand how to use FSP!
- o 1.4 What are those funny "R" and "I" characters?
- o 1.5 Why should I, as a site admin, run an FSP daemon?
- o 1.6 Why do FSP clients appear to hang sometimes ?
-
- * 2: FSP software and resources
-
- o 2.1 Where can I get an FTP-like interface for FSP?
- o 2.2 Where can I get a graphical interface for FSP?
- + 2.2.1 UNIX (X-Windows)
- + 2.2.2 MS-Windows
- + 2.2.3 OS/2
- + 2.2.4 Macintosh
- o 2.3 Where can I get hold of a list of sites?
- o 2.4 Where can I get pictures of naked women in compromising
- positions and a copy of SuperRoboTermiSonicBuster IV ?
- o 2.5 What about FSP Software Updates ?
-
- * 3: Technical Issues
-
- o 3.1 What are the main differences between FSP and FTP? How does
- FSP work?
- o 3.2 How secure/anonymous is FSP?
- o 3.3 Why not add passwords to FSP?
- o 3.4 So what *does* FSP stand for?
-
- * 4: Who's who in FSP?
-
- o 4.1 Who writes and maintains FSP software?
- o 4.2 Who writes and maintains FSP client software?
- o 4.3 Who helped put this FAQ together?
-
- * 5: Site Information
-
- o 5.1 What FSPable sites exist ?
-
- * 6: FAQ Translations
-
- o 6.1 Italian
-
- * Notes and Disclaimer
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Section 1: Introduction and Help
-
- Q.1.1 What's alt.comp.fsp? What's fsp?
-
- Alt.comp.fsp is a Usenet newsgroup for discussing the FSP file transmission
- protocol. It was created on Tuesday 4th May 1993 by Wen-King Su
- (wen-king@cs.caltech.edu) after there was no objection on alt.config.
- Before the newsgroup, there was a mailing list (fsp-discussion) for talking
- about FSP software internals. This newsgroup is for discussion of both
- writing and using the software.
-
- FSP is a protocol, a bit like FTP (but see below), for moving files around.
- It's designed for anonymous archives, and has protection against server and
- network overloading. It doesn't use connections, so it can survive things
- falling over.
-
- Quote: `FSP is what anonymous FTP *should* be'.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Q.1.2 Where can I get FSP from?
-
- The `official' place for FSP distributions is ftp.germany.eu.net
-
- * ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp
- * fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp
-
- It is available both by FTP and FSP: the FSP server is on port 2001.
-
- The latest release versions for each platform are:
-
- * Unix : Version 2.7.1
- o ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsp.271.tar.gz
-
- * Windows-95/NT: Version 1.0 beta 4 - based upon the v.2.7.1 Unix
- release
- o ftp://glau.student.harvard.edu/fsp/ofspdb04.zip
- o fsp://glau.student.harvard.edu/fsp/ofspdb04.zip
- o http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~glau/fspd/
-
- * OS/2: Version 1.0 - based upon the v.2.7.1 Unix release
- o ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/os2fsp21.zip
-
- * Macintosh: FSP Server 2.7.1a2 An Alpha release based upon UNIX v.2.7.1
- o ftp://ftp.mii.lu.lv/pub/Mac/FSP/FSPServer2.7.1a2.sea.hqx
-
- * VMS : Version 2.7.1
- o ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsp.271.tar.gz
-
- * MS-DOS: PC FSP Version 1.05 - based upon the v.2.6.5 Unix release
- o ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/pcfsp105.zip
-
- The Unix version is the `original', and was originally written by Wen-King
- Su: Joseph Traub took over for a while, followed by Phil Richards and Pete
- Bevin, Andrew Doherty maintains it currently. The same distribution
- contains patches by Sven Pechler to make it run on VMS. Larkin Lowrey wrote
- the OS/2 version, Lindsey Smith wrote the MS-DOS version and Garrick Lau
- wrote the Windows-95/NT version. Email addresses are in Section 4.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Q.1.3 Help! I don't understand how to use FSP!
-
- If you're already familiar with FTP, you might want to use one of the
- FTP-like clients instead, or even a graphical interface. See the answers to
- questions 2.1 and 2.2 below for details of how to get them.
-
- The following tutorial is adapted from an article in alt.comp.fsp by David
- DeSimone (fox@netcom.com).
-
- The original FSP seems to have been designed for use with csh aliases, so
- if you use csh, try these aliases in your .cshrc:
-
- # FSP aliases:
- alias fcat '(set noglob; exec fcatcmd \!*)'
- alias fcd 'setenv FSP_DIR `(set noglob; exec fcdcmd \!*)`'
- alias fget '(set noglob; exec fgetcmd \!*)'
- alias fgrab '(set noglob; exec fgrabcmd \!*)'
- alias fls '(set noglob; exec flscmd -F \!*)'
- alias fll '(set noglob; exec flscmd -l \!*)'
- alias fpro '(set noglob; exec fprocmd \!*)'
- alias fpwd 'echo "$FSP_HOST ($FSP_PORT): $FSP_DIR"'
- alias frm '(set noglob; exec frmcmd \!*)'
- alias frmdir '(set noglob; exec frmdircmd \!*)'
- alias fhost 'set fsp_host=(\!*); source ~/bin/fhost; unset fsp_host'
-
- The last alias, "fhost", is my own invention, and the ~/bin/fhost file
- looks like this:
-
- #!/bin/csh
- #
- # Since this script sets environment variables, it really needs
- # to be source'd rather than executed. Thus the following alias
- # should be used:
- #
- # alias fhost 'set fsp_host=(\!*); source ~/.bin/fhost; unset fsp_host'
- #
-
- if ( $#fsp_host > 0 ) then
-
- setenv FSP_HOST $fsp_host[1]
-
- if ( $#fsp_host > 1 ) then
- setenv FSP_PORT $fsp_host[2]
- else
- setenv FSP_PORT 21
- endif
-
- if ( $#fsp_host > 2 ) then
- setenv FSP_DIR $fsp_host[3]
- else
- setenv FSP_DIR /
- endif
-
- endif
-
- if ( $?FSP_HOST ) then
- echo "$FSP_HOST ($FSP_PORT): $FSP_DIR"
- endif
-
- This alias lets you "connect" to a host quickly and easily. For instance,
- to start out I give the following command:
-
- % fhost wuarchive.wustl.edu
- wuarchive.wustl.edu (21):
-
- The "fhost" command tells me where I'm connected, on what port, and in what
- directory.
-
- Since all "fhost" does is set up some environment variables, we aren't
- REALLY connected. To find out if the site is responding, just do a quick
- "fls":
-
- % fls
- README etc/ mirrors2/ pub/
- README.NFS graphics/ mirrors3/ systems/
- edu/ mirrors/ private/
-
- Looks like we're up and running! Navigating with FSP is now just like using
- the local filesystem, except the commands have "f" in front of them. For
- instance:
-
- % fcd /systems/amiga/incoming
- directory mode: (owner: some other machine)(delete: NO)(create: NO)
- % fls
- AT3D-Demo.bad devel/ utils/
- AT3D-Demo.readme fish/ wb30/
- comm/ programming/ demos/
- text/
-
- Other nice commands like "fcat filename" let me see what's out there, or
- for larger files, "fcat filename | less" is very effective.
-
- Once I see a nice file that I want copied to my local system, I just give
- the "fget filename" command and away it goes. Usually I type "fget filename
- &" which throws the transfer request into the background. Then I can
- immediately go off and "fcd" to some other directory and look for more
- files to grab, "fcat"-ing the README files and such.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Q.1.4 What are those funny "R" and "I" characters?
-
- When FSP doesn't get any response from the server, it keeps on sending
- requests. The first time it retries, it prints an "R", (meaning "Retry"),
- and the second, third, and subsequent times, it prints an "I". You might
- also see an "E", which means "error": FSP got a packet, but it was
- corrupted for some reason.
-
- Fspclient does it slightly differently: it starts by printing "r" and "R"
- characters, and then uses "-\|/" characters to draw a spinning bar. As Phil
- Richards (the author) says, `I quite often see spinning bars, but usually
- only after the fifth pint'.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Q.1.5 Why should I, as a site admin, run an FSP daemon?
-
- Because it's one more way people can access your site, and it won't cost
- you much extra load on the machine. The FSP daemon never forks, so it won't
- increase your load average by more than one. FSP doesn't add much to the
- network load either, and you can limit the amount of data the daemon will
- send out per second.
-
- FSP allows comprehensive logging, running off inetd, README files per
- directory, banning on per-host or per-network basis, reverse naming and
- read-only sites. The only thing anonymous FTP gives that FSP doesn't is
- having the user type in an email address, and of course, this can easily be
- faked. FSP logs give the user's hostname, which is harder to fake.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Q.1.6 Why do FSP clients appear to hang sometimes ?
-
- When unable to get a response to it's last request an FSP client use a
- non-linear algorithm to increase the delay until they re-try. Effectively
- this means that during a transfer a client may appear to be sitting their
- doing nothing for periods of time, as the timeout in use increases to high
- values, to paraphrase Wen-King Su - "the algorithm is brain damaged". This
- problem has been addressed in the next release of FSP (in beta testing).
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Section 2: FSP software and resources
-
- Q.2.1 Where can I get an FTP-like interface for FSP?
-
- Phil Richards' (pgr@sst.icl.co.uk) fspclient. The latest version (still
- pre-alpha, but more reliable than your average beta release) is
- fspclient.0.0-h. You can get it by FTP from
-
- * ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspclient.0.0-h+.tar.z
- * fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspclient.0.0-h+.tar.z
-
- Another interface to use is Nicolai Langfeldt's 'fspcli'. It has a ftp like
- interface and more. It has been posted on alt.sources. Another nice thing
- about it is that it's a small(ish) perl script rather than a large compiled
- executable, and it's not alpha OR beta. Presently the latest version is
- 1.2.1 and is available at
-
- * ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspcli-1.2.1.tar.gz
- * fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspcli-1.2.1.tar.gz
-
- Ove Ruben R Olsen (Ruben@uib.no) has written a client quite similar to
- Nicolai's, but even smaller. It is available at
-
- * ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspsh113.tar.gz
- * fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspsh113.tar.gz
-
- Note that if you want to use either of the last two clients, you'll have to
- have the Perl language installed. You can get the latest version by FTP
- from prep.ai.mit.edu in /pub/gnu/perl*, or from most sites which mirror
- GNU, such as ftp.germany.eu.net .
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Q.2.2 Where can I get a graphical interface for FSP?
-
- 2.2.1 For Unix (X-Windows) ...
-
- The interface I use is FSPtool (not suprising really :-) ) by myself
- [Andy Doherty (A.J.Doherty@reading.ac.uk)]. It is an XView based
- client for the X Window System. Available from:
-
- o ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsptool-1.6.1.tar.gz
- o fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsptool-1.6.1.tar.gz
- o ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/fsptool-1.6.1.tar.gz
-
- Like fspcli and fspshell, it acts as an interface to the standard FSP
- shell commands, rather than rewriting them itself.
-
- Note that to use this package, you will need the XView libraries, if
- you're using a Sun workstation, or the standard MIT X11R5/R6
- distribution you should be you're OK: otherwise, you might have to get
- and compile them yourself.
-
- 2.2.2 For MS-Windows ...
-
- winfsp12.zip by Ian Heath (ih@ecs.soton.ac.uk) is a MSW client using
- WINSOCK.DLL . It's available from
-
- o ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/ibmpc/win3/winsock/winfsp12.zip
- o ftp://ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/win3/winsock/winfsp12.zip
- o ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/winfsp12.zip
- o fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/winfsp12.zip
-
- fsp4win.zip by Ben Youngdahl (youngdah@cs.umn.edu) is another MSW
- client using WINSOCK.DLL . Still in Beta release it's available from
-
- o ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/windows/winsock-indstate/fsp/fsp4win.zip
-
- 2.2.3 For OS/2 ...
-
- If you're an OS/2 user, you can use the OS/2 client by Albert Crosby
- (acrosby@uafhp.uark.edu). It wraps around the OS/2 FSP software (see
- 1.2), and also requires RexxMenu and RxU. It can read a list of files
- in the standard FSP host listing format, and uses RexxMenu's
- point-and-click interface.
-
- Alternatively Larkin Lowrey (llowrey@ucsd.edu) has an OS/2 FSP client
- (version 1.0). This can be found at ftp.cdrom.com as
- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/tcpip/fsp2_10a.zip
-
- This version includes clients for IBM's TCP/IP 1.2.1 and TCP/IP 2.0.
- Both are 32-bit and fully handle longfilenames.
-
- 2.2.4 For the Macintosh ...
-
- Jim Browne (jbrowne@jbrowne.com) is working on a version for the
- Macintosh. If you're interested you can ask to be put on a mailing
- list by mailing him at jbrowne@jbrowne.com. The latest version is
- available at http://www.jbrowne.com/Projects/MacFSP.html. Older
- versions are available from the following places:
-
- o ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/comm/tcp/
- o ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/tcp/
- o ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/mac/sumex/Communication/tcp/mac-fsp-10b13.hqx
-
- Alternatively another beta client - Modris Berzonis'
- (imara@mii.lu.lv), "FSP Client for Macintosh 2.7.1b9" - is available
- from:
-
- o ftp://ftp.mii.lu.lv/pub/Mac/FSP/FSPClient2.7.1b10.sea.hqx
-
- Last but not least is Tim Endres' (time@ice.com) "FSPMac 1.1"
- available from:
-
- o ftp://ftp.msen.com/pub/vendor/ice/FSPMac-1.1.hqx
-
- All email enquires about FSPMac should be sent to (macfsp@ice.com).
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Q.2.3 Where can I get hold of a list of sites?
-
- Dan Charrois's provides both a "finger" based read-only service and a WWW
- based service.
-
- * finger charro@bode.ee.ualberta.ca
- * http://nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca/~charro/fsp
-
- Interruptions have been experienced with the "finger" service at Dan's
- site, in case of difficulty use the WWW service instead.
-
- He is also happy to accept new site information and updates via direct
- email (charro@ee.ualberta.ca), this information would then be available via
- the finger and WWW services.
-
- A second WWW based FSP list service can also be found at:
-
- * http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/sitelist/
- * http://www.cybernet.it/fsp/ (Italian language Version)
-
- This site is based upon the server originally maintained by Roy Svendsen
- and now re-hosted to these locations. It allows list additions to be made
- direct from forms supporting browsers.
-
- A small list of sites can be found in Section 5.
-
- You are encouraged to make use of these site information services or to
- post site information to alt.comp.fsp . If you post in the format below,
- most people will be able to slurp your list straight into their front-end
- programs.
-
- The standard for the format is:
-
- hostname port alias root-directory # comment
-
- for example:
-
- ftp.germany.eu.net 2001 germany / # big German archive (FSP)
-
- Hostnames should be actual names rather than IP addresses wherever
- possible.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Q.2.4 Where can I get pictures of naked women in compromising positions and
- a copy of SuperRoboTermiSonicBuster II ?
-
- Seriously, FSP has a reputation of being for "crooks and perverts". If you
- know any sites carrying illegal material, then do them a favour and keep
- them to yourself. Posting them won't make you any friends.
-
- If someone posts a list of sites, and you didn't want them to, please don't
- publicly flame them. It doesn't endear you to anyone. If you must put them
- right, send email. Thank you.
-
- PS: Don't ask me either.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Q.2.5 What about FSP Software Updates ?
-
- The revision of the FSP protocol to version 3.0 is currently on going.
- Forums for discussion are the alt.comp.fsp newsgroup and the
- fsp-discussion@germany.eu.net mailing list.
-
- Current work in progress includes an FSP RFC (Request For Comments) -
- basically an internet specification of the protocol; alterations to improve
- security facilities; a programmers API and miscellanous extra features &
- facilities.
-
- In the meantime a new release (v.2.8.1 Beta 1) was released to Beta testing
- in January 1996, superseding the previous 2.8.0 Beta series. It fixes a
- number of portability issues, known bugs and documentation errors. It also
- provides scope for backwards compatibility with revisions to the FSP
- protocol which are scheduled for FSP 2.9.0 and beyond.
-
- The next scheduled release is v.2.9.0. This is intended to act as a
- migratory step to 3.0. Some alternations will be made to the client and
- server functionality in 2.9.0, but this release is mainly intended to
- greatly simplify and tidy the code base, bringing it up to date with ANSI
- C/C++ and the POSIX standards. This release is also intended to provide a
- foundation for much easier porting of the software between platforms,
- including Win32/Winsock 2.0 support scheduled for inclusion in 3.0.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Section 3: Technical Issues
-
- Q.3.1 What are the main differences between FSP and FTP? How does FSP work?
-
- From the user's point of view, the differences are not that great, except
- that some of the more annoying features of FTP are gone. Here are the main
- differences.
-
- * The protocol can stand things going down: if the server or the network
- falls over in the middle of a transfer, you can just wait until it
- comes back up. You don't have to reconnect, and even better, if the
- server went down 90% through grabbing a file, you can continue from
- where you left off.
-
- * The protocol doesn't need a username or password. You just throw
- packets at the server. You don't have to identify yourself (though
- you're not completely anonymous -- see below).
-
- * It's harder to kill off a site with an FSP server than with an FTP
- server. The FSP daemon is designed to be as lightweight as possible:
- it doesn't fork off any sub-processes, and it takes steps to limit the
- amount of traffic it handles.
-
- * The user interface is completely different. The interface that comes
- with the package consists of eleven commands that you can call from
- the shell. In effect, your shell is providing all the nice functions
- like command line editing. This makes the interface much more
- versatile than FTP's. (See below for how to get an FTP-like interface,
- though).
-
- * FSP is a bit slower than FTP. This is a feature, not a bug. The point
- is to keep the communication lightweight, and not to flood the net.
-
- From the programmer's point of view, fsp is a complete rewrite.
-
- * Instead of TCP sockets, it uses datagrams to communicate, so that the
- connection doesn't break on a flaky line.
-
- * FTP works by opening a port, and then asking the server to send a file
- to it. FSP uses the same port all the time for communication, and asks
- for segments of a file. So you can start off a transfer half way
- through a file, if you really want to.
-
- * The server tries to make sure you don't ask for packets too quickly.
- Each packet it sends out has a random identification number, which the
- client must return on the next request. (If the client loses the
- number, it must wait a few seconds before the server accepts another
- packet from it). Therefore, the client has to wait for an answer to
- each request before it sends out the next one.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Q.3.2 How secure/anonymous is FSP?
-
- By default, the FSP daemon keeps logs of transactions, along with their
- site names. An FSP administrator could use this to find out who you are,
- with a reasonable degree of certainty.
-
- In short, FSP gives you no more privacy than anonymous FTP. Anyone who
- tells you different has a less devious mind than most FSP admins I know.
-
- Why not make FSP more anonymous? Well, it's impossible to make a protocol
- with complete anonymity, since at some point, the remote site will have to
- send a file back to you, and it needs at least an address to send it to.
-
- If you really need privacy, you can encrypt any files you make available,
- and only give out the decryption password to a select few. But of course,
- you have to trust them to keep the password safe.
-
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-
- Q.3.3 Why not add passwords to FSP?
-
- Thanks to Joseph Traub for the material for this section)
-
- * They don't add much security. If you use one password for the whole
- site, then you might just as well set up the site and only tell a few
- people its port number. That's no more or less secure than using a
- password. Besides, it's easier just to set up the server only to
- respond to certain hosts.
-
- * Any other password system is likely to be a big loss on efficiency,
- since you'll have to check every single packet.
-
- * The main use of server passwords appears to be so that people can move
- pirated software around, and the authors don't want to add code to
- support that.
-
- * This capability does NOT belong in FSP because it gets away from the
- concept of lightweight simple file transfers.
-
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-
- Q.3.4 So what *does* FSP stand for?
-
- As of 12th August 1993, FSP stands for `File Service Protocol'. Thanks to
- Michael Grubb (mg@ac.duke.edu) for the words, and Wen-King for the
- initials.
-
- Other suggestions were:
-
- * File Slurping Protocol
- * Flaky Stream Protocol
- * FTP's Sexier Partner
-
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-
- Section 4: Who's Who?
-
- Q.4.1 Who writes and maintains FSP software?
-
- Unix Versions:
- The current maintainer (as of March 1994) is Andy Doherty
- (A.J.Doherty@reading.ac.uk), who also maintains the alt.comp.fsp FAQ
- and wrote and maintains FSPtool an X-Windows FSP client.
-
- The previous maintainers were Phil Richards (pgr@sst.icl.co.uk) and
- Pete Bevin (pete@bestiary.demon.co.uk) from July 1993 to March 1994.
- Phil is also the maintainer of fspclient, an FTP-like interface for
- FSP.
-
- Joseph Traub (jtraub@dragoncat.net) was maintainer from Dec 1992 to
- July 1993 (versions 2.6.5 to 2.7.1).
-
- Wen-King Su (wen-king@cs.caltech.edu) wrote the original Unix version
- (versions 1.0 to 2.6.4).
-
- Windows-95 / Windows-NT:
- Garrick Lau (glau@husc.harvard.edu) wrote and maintains a Windows-95/
- Windows-NT server.
-
- VMS:
- Sven Pechler (S.A.Pechler@bdk.tue.nl) wrote and maintains a VMS
- version.
-
- OS/2:
- OS/2 is handled by Larkin Lowrey (llowrey@ucsd.edu).
-
- MS-DOS:
- Lindsey Smith, of the MS-DOS rewrite is lsmith@symantec.com
-
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-
- Q.4.2 Who writes and maintains FSP Client Software?
-
- Jim Browne (jbrowne@jbrowne.com) and Modris Berzonis (imara@mii.lu.lv) are
- both writing (soon to be released?) Macintosh clients. See Section 2.2.3.
-
- Andy Doherty (A.J.Doherty@rdg.ac.uk) wrote and maintains 'FSPtool' an
- X-Windows based Unix client. Also the FSP and alt.comp.fsp FAQ maintainer.
-
- Ian Heath (ih@ecs.soton.ac.uk) wrote 'winfsp' an MS-Windows based client.
-
- Nicolai Langfeldt's (janl@ifi.uio.no) wrote and maintains 'fspcli' a Perl
- based client.
-
- Ove Ruben R Olsen (Ruben@uib.no) wrote and maintains 'fspsh', another Perl
- based client.
-
- Phil Richards' (pgr@sst.icl.co.uk) wrote and maintains 'fspclient'.
-
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-
- Q.4.3 Who helped put this FAQ together?
-
- The following people have contributed to the FAQ. Thanks very much to all
- of them.
-
- * Pete Bevin (pete@bestiary.demon.co.uk)
- * Tony Brannigan (tbrann@ox.ac.uk)
- * Jim Browne (jbrowne@jbrowne.com)
- * Nello Castiglione (anicas@cybernet.it)
- * Dan Charrois (charro@ee.ualberta.ca)
- * Wilson Cheung (wcheung@netcom.com)
- * Maurizio Codogno (mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it)
- * David DeSimone (fox@netcom.com)
- * Ian Dickinson (vato@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk)
- * Andy Doherty (A.J.Doherty@reading.ac.uk)
- * Ian Heath (ih@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
- * Jan Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no)
- * Garrick V. Lau (glua@husc.harvard.edu)
- * Larkin Lowrey (llowrey@ucsd.edu)
- * Ove Ruben R Olsen (buboo@uib.no)
- * Jerome Pier (jp@edu.unl.unlinfo)
- * Lutz Prechelt (prechelt@ira.uka.de)
- * Phil Richards (pgr@sst.icl.co.uk)
- * Lindsey Smith (lsmith@symantec.com)
- * Wen-King Su (wen-king@cs.caltech.edu)
- * Roy Svendsen (r.e.svendsen@jus.uio.no)
- * Joseph Traub (jtraub@dragoncat.net)
-
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-
- Section 5: Site Information
-
- Q.5.1 What FSPable sites exist ?
-
- The following is a small list of the some sites which are available through
- the FSP protocol. This list should be reasonably up to date but comes with
- no warranty. It is in the unofficial "taxus" format. ftp.germany.eu.net is
- the official home for FSP, the FSP software distributions and other related
- packages can be found there.
-
- genie.lut.ac.uk 21 genie / # small UK site
- ftp.germany.eu.net 2001 germany / # big German archive (FSP)
- fsp.luth.se 6969 luth / # Top of Europe
- src.doc.ic.ac.uk 21 src / # SUNsite Northern Europe
- terra.stack.urc.tue.nl 21 terra / # big Netherlands site
- ftp.wustl.edu 21 wu / # lots of mirrors ...
-
- For more site information sources see Q.2.3
-
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-
- Section 6: FAQ Translations
-
- At least one non-english language translation of the FAQ is now available,
- so this section details it, and any others that may come along over time.
-
- Bear in mind that changes to the main FAQ may take a while to filter down
- through translations. Keep an eye on the date at the top of this copy and
- see if it matches up to the FAQ source at
- http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/faq/faq.htm.
-
- 6.1. Italian
-
- Nello Castiglione (anicas@cybernet.it) has translated the FAQ into Italian,
- many thanks to him for the time and effort spent. This translation is
- available from:
-
- * http://www.cybernet.it/fsp/faq.html
-
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- Comments and suggestions should be sent to A.J.Doherty@rdg.ac.uk. The
- information in this FAQ is in no way associated with the University of
- Reading or its Information Technology Unit. This FAQ represents the efforts
- of many people to help consolidate information about FSP. There is no
- guarantee that the information in this FAQ is correct, nor can anyone
- contributing to this FAQ be held responsible for the information they
- provide.
-
- Addresses in () after the answer are the email addresses of people who have
- contributed. Please let me know if you don't wish to be identified when you
- contribute.
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