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- MacFSP 1.0 Beta 13 4/8/94
- Macgifts Release: 7/22/94
-
- Notes on this Release:
-
- Here is MacFSP 1.0b13. Many people out there already have this release of MacFSP. This
- is not a new release. About once a week I get someone asking me for MacFSP. MacFSP has
- always been sort of a "whenever I have time" program, so not much has been done lately.
- So, I thought I would send it to MacGifts so it would be on the archives for people to
- grab it. If there is interest, I'll fix it up and release a 1.0.
-
- A brief history of MacFSP:
-
- MacFSP started as a challenge. A bunch of us were sitting around on #macintosh a loooong
- time ago. FSP had just started up and a few people were using it for their "booby pics"
- fix. Several of us decided that a Mac FSP client would be cool. Given the people on the
- channel and their programming abilities, it seemed like someone would write a client and
- write it quick. I decided I'd win the race. MacFSP 1.0b0 was an ugly, modal dialog only
- application... it didn't even let you switch to other programs. But, it listed FSP
- directories and downloaded files... not bad for three hours of programming work.
-
- Since then MacFSP has gotten attention when I have had the time. Between work and school
- and other diversions, MacFSP was at the bottom of a long list of things begging for my
- attention. So, I finally have broken down and done it. I'm mailing this off to MacGifts
- so those who want it can have it. I'm embarrassed to send it out in this shape, but I
- would be kidding myself to believe I can take the time right now and make it perfect.
-
- I will work on this in the future. Whether that is next month or the next decade I don't
- know for sure.
-
- MacFSP is FREE. I ask only that you do not sell it. It can be included on any CDs made
- of whatever archive it may reside on. Feel free to drop me a line. Report bugs as you
- find them, and feel free to send suggestions.
-
- The following paragraph is shamelessly ripped off from the Anarchie distribution. I'm
- sure PeterL won't mind. ;)
-
- Jim Browne hereby disclaims all warranties relating to this software, whether express or
- implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness
- for a particular purpose. Jim Browne will not be liable for any special, incidental,
- consequential, indirect or similar damages due to loss of data or any other reason, even
- if Jim Browne or an agent of his has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In
- no event shall Jim Browne be liable for any damages, regardless of the form of the claim.
- The person using the software bears all risk as to the quality and performance of the
- software.
-
- My tag: jbrowne@uiuc.edu. Good until at least 12/15/1994
-
- PS: Yes, pUkE is the officially registered as the creator type for MacFSP. (Don't ask.)
-
- --------
- b13 original release notes:
-
- * IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ ALL OF THIS, AT LEAST READ THE NEXT PARAGRAPH! *
- If you are going to give this out to your friends, at least
- pass along this readme. I am very busy as it is, I don't have the time to
- answer mail with questions that are already answered in here. Thanks.
-
- I've had a little more time recently to work on this. I'd like to get 1.0 out
- before it gets buried on my desk again.
-
- New in this version:
- --- -- ---- --------
- 1) Fixed a bug that would cause a crash if you switched into an empty
- directory.
-
- Current BUGS:
- ------- -----
- 1) Default download directory bug
- 2) File and Directory times are all GMT.
- 3) Directory popup is sometimes the wrong size, and starts out too large.
- 4) Pinger window not saving 'last responded' dates in prefs.
- 5) View menu occasionally in incorrect highlight state.
-
- TO DO:
- -- ---
- 1) Import site lists
- 2) Implement "put" files and remaining relavent FSP commands.
- 3) Ability to set timeouts and support for < 1024 byte transfer blocks
- 4) Macbinary
- 5) Suffix Mapping
- 6) Remaining LanceWax™ interface enhancements
- 7) Have info go to seperate textedit based window.
- 8) Click in list during a download (Don't know if I want this.)
- 9) Convince Matt that ISO Translation is a waste of time.
-
- For 2.0
- --- ---
- 1) Recover from hung/disconnected downloads and suspend downloads in progress
- 2) Type in list selects files
- 3) Remember window positions
- 4) Reflow code to make more asynch and allow multiple connections.
-
- Enjoy. -- Zep. (jbrowne@uiuc.edu)
-
- General Notes:
- ------- ------
- Mac uses port 4444 locally. If you crash and do an "es"... it may not work anymore
- 'cause port 4444 is still open. ZapTCP doesn't release UDP streams as far as I can
- tell. It will, however, bitch about not getting the port.
-
- I can run MacFSP on my machine with no problems, but I have direct enet acces
- and I'm only two hops from the NSFnet backbone, so I can absorb small timeouts.
- The timouts are 3 seconds... if your net is slow, you probably won't get this to
- work. If you crash, mail me with the info, even a macsbug log if possible.
-
- Version History (starting w/beta 4)
- ------- -------
- •beta 12 (4/8/94)
-
- 1) Popup for directory finished and '.' and '..' files removed from lists.
- 2) Files smaller than 1k show up as 1k, rather than 0k
- 3) Directory caching has been implemented!
- 4) File lists can be sorted by date or name
-
- •beta 11 (4/2/94)
-
- 1) MacFSP no longer tries to list private directories.
-
- New:
-
- The "pinger" list. If you open it, it will display a list of all of the sites
- in your preferences. The pinger will send a small request to each site, and if
- that site responds it will put a bullet (•) next to that site. This will let
- you tell in a glance which of your sites are currently up. If you double-click
- on a site in the list, MacFSP will open a connection to that site. Right now
- the list is somewhat primitive in that it doesn't update... but the foundations
- for something great have been laid.
-
- "Export site list" will export your current preferences to a file in the common
- FSP site list format. Soon I will have Import done, so you can avoid typing in
- those site lists by hand.
-
- •beta 10 (12/12/93)
-
- 1) Window is resizeable now. No grow box yet.
- 2) Dates are included in filelist.
- 3) User can cancel any transaction now.
- 4) Ability to set retries and CPU usage in prefs DLOG
-
- •beta 9 (11/11/93)
-
- 1) Fixed an amazingly stupid bug in NetReadUDP that should eliminate the majority
- of crashes.
-
- •beta 8 (No public release)
-
- 1) Updated DoCWD and DoVers (Version Info) to use FSP 2.7.0 protocol
- 2) Increased the UDP buffer size to 8192 to try and alleviate some problems w/asynch
- UDP sends, etc. We'll see if it works.
- 3) Removed the asynchronous notification routine since it isn't needed.
- 4) Bug fix: In some cases wasn't closing UDP stream when a server did not respond.
- 5) Now calling MoreMasters a few times (I forgot this for some strange reason).
-
- •beta 7 (5/8/93)
-
- 1) More defensive about messages from the server. Server messages longer than 240
- characters no longer crash MacFSP.
- 2) Fixed nasty memory leak in DoLS (Directory fetching and list insertion funtion)
- 3) Changing colons in filenames to underscores when downloading
- 4) User cancel now takes affect ASAP, rather than after a file downloads.
- 5) Now also disabling "Customize" menu and "About..." item while downloading
- 6) Fixed memory leak involving leaving a copy of the path lying around
- 7) Double clicking on a file now downloads it instead of treating it as a directory.
- 8) Files in list are deselected as they are downloaded and the list scrolls to ensure
- the topmost selection is visible.
-
- •beta 6 (4/5/93)
-
- 1) Now doing a FlushVol after every file download.
- 2) Fixed the "list suddenly ignoring clicks" bug. You see, there's this thing called
- the current port....
- 3) Now disabling Commands menu during any transfers to avoid reentrance.
- 4) Text download mode works.
- 5) All of the UDP code is asynch now (except for quick stuff like releasing the
- buffer.)
- 6) Some interface enhancements. (Still have to do directory popup & progress bar.)
-
- •beta 5 (3/27/93):
-
- Shortcuts are fully implemented now. Special thanks to Apple for having such a
- shitty popup CDEF.
-
- •beta 4 (3/24/92):
-
- Fixed the "random crashing" bug. Much more robust now. I haven't had any
- crashes with this version at all. Please let me know if you do (or if your
- particular network setup causes problems to appear).
-
-