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- Short: BETA FSP clients for AmiTCP (2.3 or greater)
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- Keywords: amiga FSP AmiTCP
- Author: PORTED by aln@maroon.tc.umn.edu, original FSP 2.7.1 authors are many
- Uploader: aln@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Alan Nelson)
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- This is a very preliminary release of the FSP 2.7.1 clients for the Amiga.
- It runs under AmiTCP 2.3 (required to fix MTU problems with packet
- assembly/disassembly problems).
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- Binaries only are supplied - I'm too embarassed by the way I hacked up
- 2.7.1 sources. In fact, not all the client programs are here - just
- the most common ones. Only fget, fcd, fls, fput and fver have been used
- extensively. The only MAJOR problem is that filename expansion is
- not done remotely - that is, you must get "file1" "file2" file3"
- individually instead of saying "file*" - bummer, eh?
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- If you want to "ping" a site to see if FSP is running, I suggest using
- the "fver" command - it is quicker than doing an fcd or fls. And no,
- there isn't an FSP Deamon (I didn't even try to compile it but might if
- there is an interest).
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- Don't expect real sources and a true port anytime soon. I initially did
- it to access a "popular" site back in the Fall 1993 ... a quick and dirty
- port just to xfer files before the site went away. Since then, my interest
- has dwindled in direct proportion to the interesting Amiga sites out there.
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- If you don't know what FSP does or how to use it, I'd suggest looking
- at the FAQ in alt.comp.fsp (try not to mention this hacked port) or the
- fsp2.71.tar distribution. An old faq from August 1993 is included - but
- understand that IT IS OUT OF DATE. The man files are also included, but
- I never updated them to reflect by hacks (see what you get with free
- software?)
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- Included is a sample startup file "setup" and a sample init file
- "wuarchive.sh" used to access the wuarchive.wustl.edu site. (And try
- pics6.sh if looking for a vast collection of JPG/GIF files).
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- Remember, FSP uses environment variables on *purpose* (yecchhh) and
- you must, at the minimum, set FSP_PORT and FSP_HOST. Therefore, only
- one active site is possible (although multiple sessions (fget's) are
- possible to the same site). Got a solution besides re-writing FSP not
- to use environment variables? Let me know.
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- Got an interesting site to share? Want to encourage me to finish this
- project? E-mail me at the address below. Got any flames for not
- releasing the hacked up sources? My response is to get the 2.7.1 FSP
- distribution and compile it yourself. Looks like the AmiTCP 3.0 distribution
- will allow an almost transparent port ...
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- -Al
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- 15 march 1994
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- aln@maroon.tc.umn.edu (good til Jan 1995)
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