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Welcome to Myzar 2.1. Here are some things you must know:
- This version suports clients v461, and those clients *ONLY*. Do not use it
with old rc5des clients, it will not work: output format is different, and
client preferences file (.ini) format is extremely different, so supporting
both clients with just one executble was really too much of an effort.
- Myzar is provided "executable only". This is because I got access to beta
clients only one week before the official release, and a week was barely
enough to make the needed chages to the code (many). I simply hadn't time to
update documentation and contact translators to update catalog files.
However, I'll start these tasks now, so expect a full archive soon.
- Myzar now speaks english only: too many strings changed, so I was forced to
push the catalog revision number, thus making Myzar incompatible with older
catalogs. New catalogs will be made soon, see above.
- OGR support is there, but hasn't been tested. Anyway, OGR blocks will not be
counted in Myzar statistics.
- Myzar now uses "official" new distributed.net terminology when it comes to
blocks: a 2^28 block is now a "work unit" and larger blocks are now "packets".
To reflect this, some keywords changed their name: "%curblk" is now "%curpkt"
and so on. However Myzar will automatically convert keywords when loading an
old preferences file.
- Clients' priorities aren't configurable anymore within Myzar preferences,
because new clients are *extremely* well-written and amiga-integrated: among
other things, they can set their own priority according to a setting in the
.ini file. You can access this setting from the client configuration window.
- Log file analyzer has been temporarily disabled.
- WARNING: 68k and PPC client can share buffers, but a packet started by a
client can't be finished by the other, it will have to be restarted from
scratch. If you share buffers, Myzar tries its best to avoid this, but if you
start/stop the clients singularly you may end up with restarted blocks.
- MAKE sURE YOU READ CLIENTS' README FILE, TOO!!!!
Installaton
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- If you are installing Myzar for the first time, you will need the full 2.0
archive, available at http://www.crosswinds.net/~myzar/. Extract the 2.0
archive first, then copy the new executable over the old one. Better to have a
look at the 2.0 documentaion: even if not updated, it will certainly provide
good help on how to configure/use Myzar
- If you are an old user:
- Finish all blocks you might still have in your buffers with old Myzar and
old clients, and flush them to distributed.net.
- Install new clients
- Copy new Myzar executable over old one
- Start Myzar, open the preferences window and provide the full path to new
clients. Close it and test the client(s) using the appropriate menu item. If
some test should fail, mail client's autor immediately!
- Now open client configuration window and make desired changes to client
configuration.
- Go on-line and start Myzar in on-line mode: the client(s) will fetch new
packets and start working.
Support
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If you thing you have found a bug, feel free to write me. My Email address
hasn't changed: R.Patriarca@flashnet.it
Happy cracking!