dillon@HERMES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (03/01/89)
DNET V2.00 is now available via anonymous FTP to those of you with ARPANet access. These are BETA. My interests are for bug reports or 'you forgot to include this file' type of stuff. I have NOT finished the BBS server or password server, but everything else, including security, is done. DNet basically lets you connect two amigas or an amiga and 4.2/4.3BSD UNIX compatible machine together (8 bit connection required, DNet must be able to send & recv all 256 character codes), and run multiple reliable connections over it (i.e. upload, download, and talk to your friend all at the same time). USENETer's: The files are alltogether too large for me to have the time to do a distribution. I will attempt to put together an automatic mail-reply alias for you but it will be a while. Don't worry: The idea is to let the ARPANet people mash on it and work out my mistakes first. DNET V2.00 new things: * GetFiles client+server, including option to 'continue a download frlom where you left off' ... it skips files/partial files that have already been downloaded. * FTerm now has an echo mode which the STERM server turns on, plus uses the console.device, plus is now buffered. Also, resizing an FTerm window will resize the remote talk window and vise-versa (Ioctl's have been implemented on the Amiga side) for amiga<->amiga connect. * AUTO-ANSWER SUPPORT, carrier detect now used (if CD drops, the protocol shuts down). However, since the password server has yet to be implemented, be sure security options are set to only allow downloads. * Support for slow networks (specifically, a 'virtual baud rate' option that you set lower than the real baud rate to fix the timeouts). * Amiga Printer server (mainly for Amiga<->Unix connect) * Bug fixes all over the place! * Security added * Lots of other things that I am too tired to think of right now. ucbvax.berkeley.edu anonymous login, password whatever cd pub/amiga binary amiga binaries & unix source: dnet.amiga.bin.tar.Z Amiga side docs + binaries dnet.unix.tar.Z Unix side docs + source source: (Aztec C) dnet.amiga.src.tar.Z dres.tar.Z (available by Friday) sup32.tar.Z (available by Friday) dnet.amiga.support.tar.Z -Matt