Phex is a successor of Furi I didnīt find much time to write a readme yet, so just stick to the original readme by William W. Wong below. /*************************************************************** * The original readme by William W. Wong: * ***************************************************************/ FURI - a distributed, peer-to-peer file sharing system. By: William W. Wong Revised Date: 5/1/2000 Email: williamw@jps.net Website: http://www.jps.net/williamw/furi/ Disclaimers =========== FURI is distributed in the hope that it will be useful. It is provided "as is", without any warranty whatsoever. Its developer disclaims all warranties and conditions, either express or implied, including, without limitation, warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. To the extent allowed by applicable law, in no event will its developer or its suppliers be liable for any damages, including, without limitation, direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages of any kind, even if its developer or its suppliers has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Note that in some countries it is against the law to distribute copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder. Introduction ============ It was said that Internet was created with the goal of surviving a nuclear attack. Gnutella net is organized in a similar fashion. It's totally distributed; there is no central server. Machines are connected to each other in a peer to peer setup, in a completely unpreditably way. It allows many users to open up their own machines and share files with anyone. It let users to search others' shared directories, to download files from each other. It is a new way to share information. FURI is a Gnutella protocol-compatible Java program that can participate in the Gnutella network. It is a full version program that can perform most of the tasks of a Gnutella servant. System Requirement ================== FURI will run in any platform that supports Java. FURI requires Java JDK 1.2.2 or up. It also work with 1.1.7 or up with Swing 1.1.1 support. It runs on JDK 1.3 as well. Java plus Swing is a memory hog. When running, FURI usually fluctuate between 8 megs to 20 megs of memory usage, back and forth. It would run comfortably on a 64 megs machine. Probably runs fine on a 48 megs machine. You might experience sluggishness when running it on a 32 megs machine. Installation ============ Currently, no installer. Don't know whether there will ever be one. Simply unzip the files from the zip file into a directory. Running FURI ============ The starting class for FURI is furi.f. The jar file furi.jar contains all the classes (and source) of FURI. Place the furi.jar file into your Java classpath. Make sure the Java runtime class libraries have been set up properly in the classpath as well. Remember FURI needs Java JDK 1.2.2, or JDK 1.1.7 and Swing 1.1.1. Type the following to invoke FURI. java furi.f For JDK 1.2 and up, you can alternatively start FURI by: java -jar furi.jar For JDK 1.2 on Windows 95/98/NT/NT2000, you can simply double-click on the furi.jar to run it. Where to Find Gnutella Hosts ============================ The following links are good places to look for starting host to connect. Once you connected one host, you are in the Gnutella network. You can connect to addition hosts by looking at the host catcher. http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~havardot/betaz/GNUTELLA.net http://gnutella.nerdherd.net/ Beta ==== FURI is current in beta. The program is still very rough. Please bear with any bugs and shortcomings. For bug report, please email back to me at: williamw@jps.net. Thanks. Check the following website for periodic updates of FURI. http://www.jps.net/williamw/furi/ Development Work ================ I really prefer to work alone. As I found out over the years, software development is mainly an individual endeavor. If you figure out a bug, please report it back to me. If you want certain feature, please let me know, and I will schedule it into the development cycle. Please don't write a separate module and send it to me to expect me to incorporate it. Thank you. Happy Sharing!