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- Windows Sockets FTP Client Application Beta 5 Version 93.11.12
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- Written by:
- John A. Junod Internet: <junodj@gordon-css583.army.mil>
- 267 Hillwood Street <zj8549@trotter.usma.edu>
- Martinez, GA 30907 Compuserve: 72321,366
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- THE INFORMATION AND CODE PROVIDED IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY
- OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
- THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL JOHN A. JUNOD BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
- WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS
- OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF JOHN A. JUNOD HAS BEEN
- ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
-
- This program executable and all source code is released into the public
- domain. It would be nice (but is not required) to give me a little
- credit for any use of this code. The primary purpose of this application
- was to learn what it takes to write a Windows Sockets Application.
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- The user interface for this FTP client is designed with the novice FTP user
- in mind. Usage should (??) be obvious with the possible exception of the
- the transfer mode; ascii, binary or l8. All controls are standard Windows
- controls.
-
- My development and testing was all completed at home on two 386 PC's using
- the Trumpet Windows Sockets DLL Alpha 15 with NCSA Telnet and WinQVT/Net 2.6
- and 3.94 as the remote host. Source code may be compiled with Borland C++
- in large mode.
-
- Some code concepts and names are based on code that is copyright by the
- Regents of the University of California or code published in UNIX Network
- Programming by W. Richard Stevens or code in WATTCP or other public sources.
- The rest is based on my knowledge of Windows programming and my
- interpretation of RFC 969 and the Windows Sockets API version 1.1.
-
- Known problems:
-
- 1) May not work correctly for some FTP servers due to the directory
- listing that comes back. In this case the directories and files
- dialog boxes will remain empty and the full directory listing will
- be visible by clicking the [LONGDIR] button. If you have a host that
- doesn't work, e-mail me a listing of that listing and the output
- of the remote FTP help command.
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- 2) No restart of aborted transfers coded.
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- 3) No abort of transfers coded other than pressing [CLOSE] or [EXIT].
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- 4) No support for EBCDIC (does anyone use this??) transfers.
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- 5) Use of menu items in the debug window may be confusing to the novice
- user.
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- 6) Makes use of blocking socket calls.
-
- Still to do:
- 1. Make it use ASYNC calls. (anyone want to help???)
- 2. Support abort on transfers and restarts if necessary.
- 3. Eliminate debug window.
- 4. Windows 3.1 style directory list boxes.
- 5. Implement drag and drop processing. Idea here is to be able to take
- a file(s) from the file manager and drop on a ftp connection, or to
- be able to drag filename(s) from a ftp connection and drop on the
- file manager.
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- 93.10.01
- Fixed the gethostbyname problem.
- Fixed WinQVT/Net 3.x directory expansion problem.
- Fixed transfer abort problem with [CLOSE] or [EXIT].
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- 93.10.05
- added host remembering
- added automatic password for anonymous userid (option mail address)
- corrected problem going to biochemistry.cwru.edu
- corrected linked directories problem (??)
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- 93.10.10
- moved options button to main window
- fixed options, including prompting, bell, receive_unique
- added filename conversion for illegal dos filenames
- added timeout editing in host dialog
- changed listen timeout from 5 seconds to standard timeout
- changed messages going to status window
- set nolinger on socket close
- rewrote error module to eliminate possible copyright problem
- cleaned/colored main window
- added MS Visual C++ makefile
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- 93.10.17
- added host linked userids, passwords, initial directory and hosttype
- added support for new host types (note that these are mostly untested)
- moved debug window routines to ws_debug.c
- changed bind address to 0 for vxdtcp (seems to work ok for Trumpet also,
- so I left it in, even though I never could get vxdtcp to work reliably.
- vxdtcp bind returned a WSAEADDRNOTAVAIL (or something like that))
- corrected bug in filename conversion
- changed anonymous userid processing (must select a check box, now)
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- NOTE: While WS_FTP allows you to save a password for a host and does some
- minor encryption, it is not intended to be secure and is not recommended
- to be used for private accounts! It was added on request.
-
- 93.10.24
- more clean up of the source code
- attempt to fix problems with Unisys 5000 EXOS (junk) ftp daemon
- fix remote to local name conversion when multiple dots/spaces exist
- fix timeout problem. timeouts ONLY happen when connecting or
- waiting for control message responses. send and receive processing
- contains no timeout processing. timeouts limited to 65 seconds
- rewrote host information routines to use global memory so number of
- saved names may be increased. userid automatically saved for
- each host. timeouts saved by host.
- released HBRUSH resources properly
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- 93.11.12
- uses port 21 if "services" file not found
- added two line scrolling status window
- updated debug and paint procedures to multi-window versions
- added period to end of names not having an extention for viewer
- modified about dialog box
- temporary files are now located in the %TEMP% directory instead
- of root of current drive.
- fixed VMS name parsing (hopefully)
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