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- Short: TCP/IP stack as shared library binaries
- Type: comm/net
- Uploader: amitcp-group@hut.fi
- Author: amitcp-group@hut.fi (The AmiTCP/IP Group)
- Version: Release 2.2
-
- AmiTCP/IP is the first publicly available TCP/IP protocol stack for
- the SANA-II interface. AmiTCP/IP provides an application level socket
- interface to the Internet protocol suite as an Amiga shared library.
-
- New Features in 2.2:
-
- * AmiTCP:
- - The interactive sessions have now a higher priority when
- using rh(c)slip.device
- * arp:
- - Arp table dumping is now working
- * netstat:
- - Routing table can be dumped
-
- New Features in 2.1:
-
- * Inet-handler:
- - With Inet-Handler you can use AmigaDOS IO to access TCP protocol
- * finger:
- - New application, prints information about local and remote users
- * fingerd:
- - Calls now finger when asked for local users. (This feature requires
- Apipe-handler by Per Bojsen, Apipe-handler can be found e.g. on Fish
- disk 783)
- * ls:
- - New application, an imitation of Unix directory lister. Supports
- multiuser filesystems. Included as an example of user and group
- database usage
- * Napsaterm:
- - Default window title is now the name of the remote host
- - A public screen can be used with -S switch (thanks trossi!)
- * SynClock:
- - A simple script which synchronize clock in Amiga with
- specified host in network
- * AmiTCP:
- - A timestamp is added to the log messages
- - Faster checksum calculation implemented in assembler
- * netlib:
- - User and group database handling routines are added to the
- net.lib. Release includes example databases for `ls' and `finger'
- utilities, which use these databases
- - A real gettimeofday() using locale is also added
-
- AmiTCP/IP is distributed in 8 archives:
-
- AmiTCP-bin-22.lha AmiTCP/IP package
- AmiTCP-api-22.lha Include files and link libraries
- AmiTCP-src-22.lha Source for AmiTCP/IP and utilities
-
- AmiTCP-psA-20.lha Documentation for AmiTCP (PostScript, A4)
- AmiTCP-psL-20.lha Documentation for AmiTCP (PostScript, Letter)
- AmiTCP-dvA-20.lha Documentation for AmiTCP (DVI, A4)
- AmiTCP-dvL-20.lha Documentation for AmiTCP (DVI, Letter)
- AmiTCP-txt-20.lha Documentation for AmiTCP (plain text)
-
- If you just want to use AmiTCP/IP you need just bin and one of
- document files. If you want to write your own applications or compile
- AmiTCP/IP you need api, too. Number in the name corresponds to
- distribution version. Printed documentation is currently up to release
- 2.0.
-
- Unpack archives to directory, then read README.FIRST and HowToInstall.
-
- Bug-reports: amitcp-bug@hut.fi
-