Sven "Hoaxter" Hoexter This document is a major rewrite of the old FSP FAQ. I started with this FAQ from scratch cause nearly all parts of the old FAQ where outdated. This new FAQ is maintained in DocBook SGML. Send patches to the fsp-devel Mailinglist (FIXME link to id gethelpml) or directly to me sven@du-gehoerst-mir.de-nospam. You should be able to find the latest SGML version of this FAQ in the fsp CVS at sf.net or here http://sven.stormbind.net/fsp/fsp-doc/fsp-faq.sgml (be aware the sf.net public CVS is often about a week behind the "real" CVS :( ) FSP stands for &fsp;. In general FSP is what anonymous ftp should be, a fast and bandwith friendly way to access publicly avaible data. FSP is UDP based so it doesn't have all the protocol overhead you've with TCP based transfer protocols. You can find the latest protocol definition right here http://fsp.sourceforge.net/doc/PROTOCOL.txt or in the source distribution in the "doc" subdirectory. In the past various people maintained the FSP code base. At the moment Radim Kolar hsn@cybermail.net-nospam is maintaining FSP. If you like to get involved take a look at the FSP Homepage and the FSP project page. The &fsp; has its strengths on slow lines and connections with a high package lose like a Wireless LAN. In general the &fsp; is what anonymous FTP should be - a fast and bandwith friendly way for anonymous file access. You can Download the FSP source Distribtuion from the sf.net mirror network or from ibblio. If you have the FSP tools already you can access the latest FSP release via fsp on hxt.homelinux.org port 2221. When you're interesseted in the latest, and of course greates, development done in FSP please try a CVS checkout. Explanation and all needed information to do this can be found on the sf.net CVS page. First of all various people took the time to write nice documentation on FSP including the fspd Server and the client tools. Please read those fine documents bevor you start writing to the mailinglists. FIXME The &fsp; definition: The latest version of the FAQ The old FAQ For developing issue writte to the fsp-dev mainlinglist. For end-user questions and questions on how to configure your server/client write to the fsp-user Mailinglist. You can find more information on how to subscribe/unsubscribe to the mailinglist and the archiv on the FSP mailinglist page on sf.net. Please bevor you write to one of the provided mailinglists read and understand ESRs HowTo ask smart questions and learn.to/quote FIXME name and link to the licence FIXME A short summary about the Project History FIXME Give credit to the past developers and people who have contributed FIXME Link back to the id whrecanifind and tell how to download a tar.gz file ;) FIXME Well maybe we can provide binary builds some time in the future I startet a spec file for RH 7.3 (should be generic cause fsp is nearly dependencie free) some time ago but never finished it FIXME Tell the normal shit again, tar zxf, ./configure make make install FIXME Information about the fspd FIXME Explain client tools and those f*cking shell script wrappers *hrhr* Check the X based fsp tools, maybe they'll compile ...