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<title>Frequently Asked Questions about FSP</title>
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<center>
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<h2>File Service Protocol (FSP)<br>
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Frequently Asked Questions</h2>
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<font size="2">
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<p>(Last Updated: 25th June 1996)</font> </center> </p>
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<p> </p>
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<p>These are the answers to some of the frequently asked
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questions about FSP. Posted twice monthly to alt.comp.fsp,
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alt.answers and news.answers. </p>
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<p>This information is mostly compiled from the alt.comp.fsp
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newsgroup, although many other people and information sources
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also contribute. It is edited and prepared by Andy Doherty<br>
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(<a href="mailto:A.J.Doherty@reading.ac.uk">A.J.Doherty@reading.ac.uk</a>)
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- who is also the current maintainer of the FSP software. </p>
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<p>This FAQ may be found in the <a href="news:alt.comp.fsp">alt.comp.fsp</a>
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newsgroup and from the news archives at rtfm.mit.edu . However,
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the most recent version will always be found at its WWW home of <a
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href="http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/faq/faq.htm">
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http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/faq/faq.htm </a> </p>
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<p> </p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="NEWS">News:</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>The Beta 3 release of 2.8.1 will go to a full release at
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the end of July. At this time it will be distributed to
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distribution sites and will replace the 2.7.1 release.
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See <a href="http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/FSP281.htm">http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/FSP281.htm</a>
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for more details. If you know of any problems with this
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release then please report them now.<br>
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<br>
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</li>
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<li>The Beta 4 release of an FSP server for
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Windows-95/Windows-NT is now available. See <a
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href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~glau/fspd/">http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~glau/fspd/</a>
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for more information, or section <a href="#1.2">1.2</a>
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of this document. </li>
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</ul>
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<p> </p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="RECENTADDITIONS">Recent Additions:</a> <i>(Latest
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First)</i></h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#4.3">Email Address Updates [4.3]</a> </li>
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<li><a href="#1.2">New Windows-95/Windows-NT FSP
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server [1.2]</a> </li>
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<li><a href="#2.5">What about FSP Software Updates ?
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[2.5]</a> </li>
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<li><a href="#2.2.4">Updates to Macintosh FSP client
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information [2.2.4]</a> </li>
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<li><a href="#6.1">Italian translation of FAQ
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available [6.1]</a> </li>
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<li><a href="#1.2">Updates to Macintosh FSP server
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information [1.2]</a> </li>
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</ul>
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<hr size="3">
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<center>
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<h2><a name="CONTENTS">Contents</a></h2>
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</center>
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<p> </p>
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<ul>
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<li><h3>1: <a href="#1">Introduction and Help</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>1.1 <a href="#1.1">What's alt.comp.fsp?
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What's FSP?</a> </li>
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<li>1.2 <a href="#1.2">Where can I get FSP?</a>
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</li>
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<li>1.3 <a href="#1.3">Help! I don't
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understand how to use FSP!</a> </li>
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<li>1.4 <a href="#1.4">What are those funny
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"R" and "I" characters?</a> </li>
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<li>1.5 <a href="#1.5">Why should I, as a site
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admin, run an FSP daemon?</a> </li>
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<li>1.6 <a href="#1.6">Why do FSP clients
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appear to hang sometimes ?</a> </li>
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</ul>
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<br>
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</li>
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<li><h3>2: <a href="#2">FSP software and resources</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>2.1 <a href="#2.1">Where can I get an
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FTP-like interface for FSP?</a> </li>
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<li>2.2 <a href="#2.2">Where can I get a
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graphical interface for FSP?</a> <ul>
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<li>2.2.1 <a href="#2.2.1">UNIX
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(X-Windows)</a> </li>
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<li>2.2.2 <a href="#2.2.2">MS-Windows</a>
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</li>
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<li>2.2.3 <a href="#2.2.3">OS/2</a> </li>
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<li>2.2.4 <a href="#2.2.4">Macintosh</a>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>2.3 <a href="#2.3">Where can I get hold of
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a list of sites?</a> </li>
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<li>2.4 <a href="#2.4">Where can I get
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pictures of naked women in compromising positions
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and a copy of SuperRoboTermiSonicBuster IV ?</a> </li>
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<li>2.5 <a href="#2.5">What about FSP Software
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Updates ?</a> </li>
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</ul>
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<br>
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</li>
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<li><h3>3: <a href="#3">Technical Issues</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>3.1 <a href="#3.1">What are the main
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differences between FSP and FTP? How does FSP
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work?</a> </li>
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<li>3.2 <a href="#3.2">How secure/anonymous is
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FSP?</a> </li>
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<li>3.3 <a href="#3.3">Why not add passwords
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to FSP?</a> </li>
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<li>3.4 <a href="#3.4">So what *does* FSP
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stand for?</a> </li>
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</ul>
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<br>
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</li>
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<li><h3>4: <a href="#4">Who's who in FSP?</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>4.1 <a href="#4.1">Who writes and
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maintains FSP software?</a> </li>
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<li>4.2 <a href="#4.2">Who writes and
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maintains FSP client software?</a> </li>
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<li>4.3 <a href="#4.3">Who helped put this FAQ
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together?</a> </li>
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</ul>
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<br>
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</li>
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<li><h3>5: <a href="#5">Site Information</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>5.1 <a href="#5.1">What FSPable sites
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exist ?</a> </li>
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</ul>
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<br>
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</li>
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<li><h3>6: <a href="#6">FAQ Translations</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>6.1 <a href="#6.1">Italian</a> </li>
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</ul>
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<br>
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</li>
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<li><h4><a href="#DISCLAIMER">Notes and Disclaimer</a></h4>
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<br>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<hr size="3">
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<h3><a name="1">Section 1: Introduction and Help</a></h3>
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<h4><a name="1.1">Q.1.1 What's alt.comp.fsp? What's fsp?</a></h4>
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<p>Alt.comp.fsp is a Usenet newsgroup for discussing the FSP file
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transmission protocol. It was created on Tuesday 4th May 1993 by
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Wen-King Su (wen-king@cs.caltech.edu) after there was no
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objection on alt.config. Before the newsgroup, there was a
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mailing list (fsp-discussion) for talking about FSP software
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internals. This newsgroup is for discussion of both writing and
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using the software. </p>
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<p>FSP is a protocol, a bit like FTP (but see below), for moving
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files around. It's designed for anonymous archives, and has
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protection against server and network overloading. It doesn't use
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connections, so it can survive things falling over. </p>
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<p><i>Quote: `FSP is what anonymous FTP *should* be'.</i> </p>
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<p> </p>
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<hr>
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<h4><a name="1.2">Q.1.2 Where can I get FSP from?</a></h4>
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<p>The `official' place for FSP distributions is
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ftp.germany.eu.net </p>
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<p> </p>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp">ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp</a>
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</li>
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<li>fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp </li>
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</ul>
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<p>It is available both by FTP and FSP: the FSP server is on port
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2001. </p>
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<p>The latest release versions for each platform are: </p>
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<p> </p>
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<ul>
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<li>Unix : Version 2.7.1 <ul>
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<li><a
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href="ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsp.271.tar.gz">
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ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsp.271.tar.gz
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</a> </li>
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</ul>
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<p> </p>
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</li>
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<li>Windows-95/NT: Version 1.0 beta 4 - based upon the
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v.2.7.1 Unix release <ul>
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<li><a
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href="ftp://glau.student.harvard.edu/fsp/ofspdb04.zip">
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ftp://glau.student.harvard.edu/fsp/ofspdb04.zip </a>
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</li>
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<li>fsp://glau.student.harvard.edu/fsp/ofspdb04.zip </li>
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<li><a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~glau/fspd/">
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http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~glau/fspd/ </a> </li>
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</ul>
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<p> </p>
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</li>
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<li>OS/2: Version 1.0 - based upon the v.2.7.1 Unix release <ul>
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<li><a
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href="ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/os2fsp21.zip">
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ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/os2fsp21.zip
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</a> </li>
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</ul>
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<p> </p>
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</li>
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<li>Macintosh: FSP Server 2.7.1a2 An Alpha release based upon
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UNIX v.2.7.1 <ul>
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<li><a
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href="ftp://ftp.mii.lu.lv/users/guest/pub/Mac/FSP/FSPServer2.7.1a2.sea.hqx">
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ftp://ftp.mii.lu.lv/pub/Mac/FSP/FSPServer2.7.1a2.sea.hqx
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</a> </li>
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</ul>
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<p> </p>
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</li>
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<li>VMS : Version 2.7.1 <ul>
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<li><a
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href="ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsp.271.tar.gz">
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ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsp.271.tar.gz
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</a> </li>
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</ul>
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<p> </p>
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</li>
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<li>MS-DOS: PC FSP Version 1.05 - based upon the v.2.6.5 Unix
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release <ul>
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<li><a
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href="ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/pcfsp105.zip">
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ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/pcfsp105.zip
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</a> </li>
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</ul>
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<p> </p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The Unix version is the `original', and was originally written
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by Wen-King Su: Joseph Traub took over for a while, followed by
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Phil Richards and Pete Bevin, Andrew Doherty maintains it
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currently. The same distribution contains patches by Sven Pechler
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to make it run on VMS. Larkin Lowrey wrote the OS/2 version,
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Lindsey Smith wrote the MS-DOS version and Garrick Lau wrote the
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Windows-95/NT version. Email addresses are in <a href="#4">Section
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4</a>. </p>
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<p> </p>
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<hr>
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<h4><a name="1.3">Q.1.3 Help! I don't understand how to use FSP!</a></h4>
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<p>If you're already familiar with FTP, you might want to use one
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of the FTP-like clients instead, or even a graphical interface.
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See the answers to questions <a href="#2.1">2.1</a> and <a
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href="#2.2">2.2</a> below for details of how to get them. </p>
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<p>The following tutorial is adapted from an article in
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alt.comp.fsp by David DeSimone (fox@netcom.com). </p>
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<p>The original FSP seems to have been designed for use with csh
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aliases, so if you use csh, try these aliases in your .cshrc: </p>
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<pre> # FSP aliases:
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alias fcat '(set noglob; exec fcatcmd \!*)'
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alias fcd 'setenv FSP_DIR `(set noglob; exec fcdcmd \!*)`'
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alias fget '(set noglob; exec fgetcmd \!*)'
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alias fgrab '(set noglob; exec fgrabcmd \!*)'
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alias fls '(set noglob; exec flscmd -F \!*)'
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alias fll '(set noglob; exec flscmd -l \!*)'
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alias fpro '(set noglob; exec fprocmd \!*)'
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alias fpwd 'echo "$FSP_HOST ($FSP_PORT): $FSP_DIR"'
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alias frm '(set noglob; exec frmcmd \!*)'
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alias frmdir '(set noglob; exec frmdircmd \!*)'
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alias fhost 'set fsp_host=(\!*); source ~/bin/fhost; unset fsp_host'
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</pre>
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<p>The last alias, "fhost", is my own invention, and
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the ~/bin/fhost file looks like this: </p>
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<pre> #!/bin/csh
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#
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# Since this script sets environment variables, it really needs
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# to be source'd rather than executed. Thus the following alias
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# should be used:
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#
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# alias fhost 'set fsp_host=(\!*); source ~/.bin/fhost; unset fsp_host'
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#
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if ( $#fsp_host > 0 ) then
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setenv FSP_HOST $fsp_host[1]
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if ( $#fsp_host > 1 ) then
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setenv FSP_PORT $fsp_host[2]
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else
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setenv FSP_PORT 21
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endif
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if ( $#fsp_host > 2 ) then
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setenv FSP_DIR $fsp_host[3]
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else
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setenv FSP_DIR /
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endif
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endif
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if ( $?FSP_HOST ) then
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echo "$FSP_HOST ($FSP_PORT): $FSP_DIR"
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endif
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</pre>
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<p>This alias lets you "connect" to a host quickly and
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easily. For instance, to start out I give the following command: </p>
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<pre> <kbd>% fhost wuarchive.wustl.edu</kbd>
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<samp>wuarchive.wustl.edu (21):</samp>
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</pre>
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<p>The "fhost" command tells me where I'm connected, on
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what port, and in what directory. </p>
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<p>Since all "fhost" does is set up some environment
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variables, we aren't REALLY connected. To find out if the site is
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responding, just do a quick "fls": </p>
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<pre> <kbd>% fls</kbd>
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<samp>README etc/ mirrors2/ pub/
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README.NFS graphics/ mirrors3/ systems/
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edu/ mirrors/ private/</samp>
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</pre>
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<p>Looks like we're up and running! Navigating with FSP is now
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just like using the local filesystem, except the commands have
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"f" in front of them. For instance: </p>
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<pre> <kbd>% fcd /systems/amiga/incoming</kbd>
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<samp>directory mode: (owner: some other machine)(delete: NO)(create: NO)</samp>
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<kbd>% fls</kbd>
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<samp>AT3D-Demo.bad devel/ utils/
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AT3D-Demo.readme fish/ wb30/
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comm/ programming/ demos/
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text/</samp>
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</pre>
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<p>Other nice commands like "fcat filename" let me see
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what's out there, or for larger files, "fcat filename |
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less" is very effective. </p>
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<p>Once I see a nice file that I want copied to my local system,
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I just give the "fget filename" command and away it
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goes. Usually I type "fget filename &" which throws
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the transfer request into the background. Then I can immediately
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go off and "fcd" to some other directory and look for
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more files to grab, "fcat"-ing the README files and
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such. </p>
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<p> </p>
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<hr>
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<h4><a name="1.4">Q.1.4 What are those funny "R" and
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"I" characters?</a></h4>
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<p> </p>
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<p>When FSP doesn't get any response from the server, it keeps on
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sending requests. The first time it retries, it prints an
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"R", (meaning "Retry"), and the second,
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third, and subsequent times, it prints an "I". You
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might also see an "E", which means "error":
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FSP got a packet, but it was corrupted for some reason. </p>
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<p>Fspclient does it slightly differently: it starts by printing
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"r" and "R" characters, and then uses
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"-\|/" characters to draw a spinning bar. As Phil
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Richards (the author) says, `I quite often see spinning bars, but
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usually only after the fifth pint'. </p>
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<p> </p>
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<hr>
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<h4><a name="1.5">Q.1.5 Why should I, as a site admin, run an FSP
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daemon?</a></h4>
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<p> </p>
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<p>Because it's one more way people can access your site, and it
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won't cost you much extra load on the machine. The FSP daemon
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never forks, so it won't increase your load average by more than
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one. FSP doesn't add much to the network load either, and you can
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limit the amount of data the daemon will send out per second. </p>
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<p>FSP allows comprehensive logging, running off inetd, README
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files per directory, banning on per-host or per-network basis,
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reverse naming and read-only sites. The only thing anonymous FTP
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gives that FSP doesn't is having the user type in an email
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address, and of course, this can easily be faked. FSP logs give
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the user's hostname, which is harder to fake. </p>
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<p> </p>
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<hr>
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<h4><a name="1.6">Q.1.6 Why do FSP clients appear to hang
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sometimes ?</a></h4>
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<p> </p>
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<p>When unable to get a response to it's last request an FSP
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client use a non-linear algorithm to increase the delay until
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they re-try. Effectively this means that during a transfer a
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client may appear to be sitting their doing nothing for periods
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of time, as the timeout in use increases to high values, to
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paraphrase Wen-King Su - "the algorithm is brain
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damaged". This problem has been addressed in the next
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release of FSP (in beta testing). </p>
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<p> </p>
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<hr size="3">
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<h3><a name="2">Section 2: FSP software and resources</a></h3>
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<h4><a name="2.1">Q.2.1 Where can I get an FTP-like interface for
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FSP?</a></h4>
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<p> </p>
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<p>Phil Richards' (pgr@sst.icl.co.uk) fspclient. The latest
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version (still pre-alpha, but more reliable than your average
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beta release) is fspclient.0.0-h. You can get it by FTP from </p>
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<p> </p>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspclient.0.0-h+.tar.z">
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ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspclient.0.0-h+.tar.z
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</a> </li>
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<li>fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspclient.0.0-h+.tar.z
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</li>
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</ul>
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|
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<p>Another interface to use is Nicolai Langfeldt's 'fspcli'. It
|
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has a ftp like interface and more. It has been posted on
|
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alt.sources. Another nice thing about it is that it's a
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small(ish) perl script rather than a large compiled executable,
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and it's not alpha OR beta. Presently the latest version is 1.2.1
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and is available at </p>
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<p> </p>
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|
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspcli-1.2.1.tar.gz">
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ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspcli-1.2.1.tar.gz
|
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</a> </li>
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<li>fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspcli-1.2.1.tar.gz
|
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</li>
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</ul>
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|
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<p>Ove Ruben R Olsen (Ruben@uib.no) has written a client quite
|
|
similar to Nicolai's, but even smaller. It is available at </p>
|
|
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<p> </p>
|
|
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspsh113.tar.gz">
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ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspsh113.tar.gz
|
|
</a> </li>
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<li>fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspsh113.tar.gz
|
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</li>
|
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</ul>
|
|
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<p>Note that if you want to use either of the last two clients,
|
|
you'll have to have the Perl language installed. You can get the
|
|
latest version by FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu in /pub/gnu/perl*, or
|
|
from most sites which mirror GNU, such as ftp.germany.eu.net . </p>
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<p> </p>
|
|
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|
<hr>
|
|
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<h4><a name="2.2">Q.2.2 Where can I get a graphical interface for
|
|
FSP?</a></h4>
|
|
|
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<p> </p>
|
|
|
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<dl>
|
|
<dt><b><a name="2.2.1">2.2.1 For Unix (X-Windows) ...</a></b>
|
|
</dt>
|
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<dd><p>The interface I use is FSPtool (not suprising really
|
|
:-) ) by myself [Andy Doherty
|
|
(A.J.Doherty@reading.ac.uk)]. It is an XView based client
|
|
for the X Window System. Available from: </p>
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a
|
|
href="ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsptool-1.6.1.tar.gz">
|
|
ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsptool-1.6.1.tar.gz
|
|
</a> </li>
|
|
<li>fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsptool-1.6.1.tar.gz
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li><a
|
|
href="ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/fsptool-1.6.1.tar.gz">
|
|
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/fsptool-1.6.1.tar.gz
|
|
</a> </li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<p>Like fspcli and fspshell, it acts as an interface to
|
|
the standard FSP shell commands, rather than rewriting
|
|
them itself. </p>
|
|
<p>Note that to use this package, you will need the XView
|
|
libraries, if you're using a Sun workstation, or the
|
|
standard MIT X11R5/R6 distribution you should be you're
|
|
OK: otherwise, you might have to get and compile them
|
|
yourself. </p>
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
</dd>
|
|
<dt><b><a name="2.2.2">2.2.2 For MS-Windows ...</a></b> </dt>
|
|
<dd><p>winfsp12.zip by Ian Heath (ih@ecs.soton.ac.uk) is a
|
|
MSW client using WINSOCK.DLL . It's available from </p>
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> <a
|
|
href="ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/ibmpc/win3/winsock/winfsp12.zip">
|
|
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/ibmpc/win3/winsock/winfsp12.zip
|
|
</a> </li>
|
|
<li> <a
|
|
href="ftp://ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/win3/winsock/winfsp12.zip">
|
|
ftp://ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/win3/winsock/winfsp12.zip
|
|
</a> </li>
|
|
<li> <a
|
|
href="ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/winfsp12.zip">
|
|
ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/winfsp12.zip
|
|
</a> </li>
|
|
<li>fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/winfsp12.zip
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<p>fsp4win.zip by Ben Youngdahl (youngdah@cs.umn.edu) is
|
|
another MSW client using WINSOCK.DLL . Still in Beta
|
|
release it's available from </p>
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> <a
|
|
href="ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/windows/winsock-indstate/fsp/fsp4win.zip">
|
|
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/windows/winsock-indstate/fsp/fsp4win.zip
|
|
</a> </li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
</dd>
|
|
<dt><b><a name="2.2.3">2.2.3 For OS/2 ...</a></b> </dt>
|
|
<dd><p>If you're an OS/2 user, you can use the OS/2 client by
|
|
Albert Crosby (acrosby@uafhp.uark.edu). It wraps around
|
|
the OS/2 FSP software (see <a href="#1.2">1.2</a>),
|
|
and also requires RexxMenu and RxU. It can read a list of
|
|
files in the standard FSP host listing format, and uses
|
|
RexxMenu's point-and-click interface. </p>
|
|
<p>Alternatively Larkin Lowrey (llowrey@ucsd.edu) has an
|
|
OS/2 FSP client (version 1.0). This can be found at
|
|
ftp.cdrom.com as <a
|
|
href="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/tcpip/fsp2_10a.zip">
|
|
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/tcpip/fsp2_10a.zip </a>
|
|
</p>
|
|
<p>This version includes clients for IBM's TCP/IP 1.2.1
|
|
and TCP/IP 2.0. Both are 32-bit and fully handle
|
|
longfilenames. </p>
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
</dd>
|
|
<dt><b><a name="2.2.4">2.2.4 For the Macintosh ...</a></b> </dt>
|
|
<dd><p>Jim Browne (jbrowne@jbrowne.com) is working on a
|
|
version for the Macintosh. If you're interested you can
|
|
ask to be put on a mailing list by mailing him at
|
|
jbrowne@jbrowne.com. The latest version is available at <a
|
|
href="http://www.jbrowne.com/Projects/MacFSP.html">
|
|
http://www.jbrowne.com/Projects/MacFSP.html</a>. Older
|
|
versions are available from the following places: </p>
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a
|
|
href="ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/comm/tcp/">
|
|
ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/comm/tcp/ </a> </li>
|
|
<li><a
|
|
href="ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/tcp/">
|
|
ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/tcp/ </a> </li>
|
|
<li><a
|
|
href="ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/mac/sumex/Communication/tcp/mac-fsp-10b13.hqx">
|
|
ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/mac/sumex/Communication/tcp/mac-fsp-10b13.hqx
|
|
</a> </li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<p>Alternatively another beta client - Modris Berzonis'
|
|
(imara@mii.lu.lv), "FSP Client for Macintosh
|
|
2.7.1b9" - is available from: </p>
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a
|
|
href="ftp://ftp.mii.lu.lv/users/guest/pub/Mac/FSP/FSPClient2.7.1b10.sea.hqx">
|
|
ftp://ftp.mii.lu.lv/pub/Mac/FSP/FSPClient2.7.1b10.sea.hqx</a>
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<p>Last but not least is Tim Endres' (time@ice.com)
|
|
"FSPMac 1.1" available from: </p>
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a
|
|
href="ftp://ftp.msen.com/pub/vendor/ice/FSPMac-1.1.hqx">
|
|
ftp://ftp.msen.com/pub/vendor/ice/FSPMac-1.1.hqx</a>
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<p>All email enquires about FSPMac should be sent to
|
|
(macfsp@ice.com). </p>
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
</dd>
|
|
</dl>
|
|
|
|
<hr>
|
|
|
|
<h4><a name="2.3">Q.2.3 Where can I get hold of a list of sites?</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Dan Charrois's provides both a "finger" based
|
|
read-only service and a WWW based service. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><kbd>finger charro@bode.ee.ualberta.ca</kbd> </li>
|
|
<li><a href="http://nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca/~charro/fsp">
|
|
http://nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca/~charro/fsp </a> </li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>Interruptions have been experienced with the
|
|
"finger" service at Dan's site, in case of difficulty
|
|
use the WWW service instead. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>He is also happy to accept new site information and updates
|
|
via direct email (charro@ee.ualberta.ca), this information would
|
|
then be available via the finger and WWW services. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A second WWW based FSP list service can also be found at: </p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a href="http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/sitelist/">
|
|
http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/sitelist/ </a> </li>
|
|
<li><a href="http://www.cybernet.it/fsp/">
|
|
http://www.cybernet.it/fsp/ </a> (Italian language
|
|
Version) </li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p> This site is based upon the server originally maintained by
|
|
Roy Svendsen and now re-hosted to these locations. It allows list
|
|
additions to be made direct from forms supporting browsers. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>A small list of sites can be found in <a href="#5">Section
|
|
5</a>. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>You are encouraged to make use of these site information
|
|
services or to post site information to alt.comp.fsp . If you
|
|
post in the format below, most people will be able to slurp your
|
|
list straight into their front-end programs. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The standard for the format is: </p>
|
|
|
|
<pre> hostname port alias root-directory # comment
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>for example: </p>
|
|
|
|
<pre> ftp.germany.eu.net 2001 germany / # big German archive (FSP)
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
<p>Hostnames should be actual names rather than IP addresses
|
|
wherever possible. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
|
|
<hr>
|
|
|
|
<h4><a name="2.4">Q.2.4 Where can I get pictures of naked women
|
|
in compromising positions and a copy of SuperRoboTermiSonicBuster
|
|
II ?</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Seriously, FSP has a reputation of being for "crooks and
|
|
perverts". If you know any sites carrying illegal material,
|
|
then do them a favour and keep them to yourself. Posting them
|
|
won't make you any friends. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>If someone posts a list of sites, and you didn't want them to,
|
|
please don't publicly flame them. It doesn't endear you to
|
|
anyone. If you must put them right, send email. Thank you. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>PS: Don't ask me either. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
|
|
<hr>
|
|
|
|
<h4><a name="2.5">Q.2.5 What about FSP Software Updates ?</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The revision of the FSP protocol to version 3.0 is currently
|
|
on going. Forums for discussion are the alt.comp.fsp newsgroup
|
|
and the fsp-discussion@germany.eu.net mailing list. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Current work in progress includes an FSP RFC (Request For
|
|
Comments) - basically an internet specification of the protocol;
|
|
alterations to improve security facilities; a programmers API and
|
|
miscellanous extra features & facilities. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>In the meantime a new release (v.2.8.1 Beta 1) was released to
|
|
Beta testing in January 1996, superseding the previous 2.8.0 Beta
|
|
series. It fixes a number of portability issues, known bugs and
|
|
documentation errors. It also provides scope for backwards
|
|
compatibility with revisions to the FSP protocol which are
|
|
scheduled for FSP 2.9.0 and beyond. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The next scheduled release is v.2.9.0. This is intended to act
|
|
as a migratory step to 3.0. Some alternations will be made to the
|
|
client and server functionality in 2.9.0, but this release is
|
|
mainly intended to greatly simplify and tidy the code base,
|
|
bringing it up to date with ANSI C/C++ and the POSIX standards.
|
|
This release is also intended to provide a foundation for much
|
|
easier porting of the software between platforms, including
|
|
Win32/Winsock 2.0 support scheduled for inclusion in 3.0. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
|
|
<hr size="3">
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="3">Section 3: Technical Issues</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<h4><a name="3.1">Q.3.1 What are the main differences between FSP
|
|
and FTP? How does FSP work?</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>From the user's point of view, the differences are not that
|
|
great, except that some of the more annoying features of FTP are
|
|
gone. Here are the main differences. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>The protocol can stand things going down: if the server
|
|
or the network falls over in the middle of a transfer,
|
|
you can just wait until it comes back up. You don't have
|
|
to reconnect, and even better, if the server went down
|
|
90% through grabbing a file, you can continue from where
|
|
you left off. <p> </p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>The protocol doesn't need a username or password. You
|
|
just throw packets at the server. You don't have to
|
|
identify yourself (though you're not completely anonymous
|
|
-- see below). <p> </p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>It's harder to kill off a site with an FSP server than
|
|
with an FTP server. The FSP daemon is designed to be as
|
|
lightweight as possible: it doesn't fork off any
|
|
sub-processes, and it takes steps to limit the amount of
|
|
traffic it handles. <p> </p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>The user interface is completely different. The interface
|
|
that comes with the package consists of eleven commands
|
|
that you can call from the shell. In effect, your shell
|
|
is providing all the nice functions like command line
|
|
editing. This makes the interface much more versatile
|
|
than FTP's. (See below for how to get an FTP-like
|
|
interface, though). <p> </p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>FSP is a bit slower than FTP. This is a feature, not a
|
|
bug. The point is to keep the communication lightweight,
|
|
and not to flood the net. </li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>From the programmer's point of view, fsp is a complete
|
|
rewrite. </p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>Instead of TCP sockets, it uses datagrams to communicate,
|
|
so that the connection doesn't break on a flaky line. <p>
|
|
</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>FTP works by opening a port, and then asking the server
|
|
to send a file to it. FSP uses the same port all the time
|
|
for communication, and asks for segments of a file. So
|
|
you can start off a transfer half way through a file, if
|
|
you really want to. <p> </p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>The server tries to make sure you don't ask for packets
|
|
too quickly. Each packet it sends out has a random
|
|
identification number, which the client must return on
|
|
the next request. (If the client loses the number, it
|
|
must wait a few seconds before the server accepts another
|
|
packet from it). Therefore, the client has to wait for an
|
|
answer to each request before it sends out the next one. </li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
|
|
<hr>
|
|
|
|
<h4><a name="3.2">Q.3.2 How secure/anonymous is FSP?</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>By default, the FSP daemon keeps logs of transactions, along
|
|
with their site names. An FSP administrator could use this to
|
|
find out who you are, with a reasonable degree of certainty. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>In short, FSP gives you no more privacy than anonymous FTP.
|
|
Anyone who tells you different has a less devious mind than most
|
|
FSP admins I know. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Why not make FSP more anonymous? Well, it's impossible to make
|
|
a protocol with complete anonymity, since at some point, the
|
|
remote site will have to send a file back to you, and it needs at
|
|
least an address to send it to. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>If you really need privacy, you can encrypt any files you make
|
|
available, and only give out the decryption password to a select
|
|
few. But of course, you have to trust them to keep the password
|
|
safe. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
|
|
<hr>
|
|
|
|
<h4><a name="3.3">Q.3.3 Why not add passwords to FSP?</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p> </p>
|
|
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<p><i>Thanks to Joseph Traub for the material for this section)</i>
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</p>
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<p> </p>
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<ul>
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<li>They don't add much security. If you use one password for
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the whole site, then you might just as well set up the
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site and only tell a few people its port number. That's
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no more or less secure than using a password. Besides,
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it's easier just to set up the server only to respond to
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certain hosts. <p> </p>
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</li>
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<li>Any other password system is likely to be a big loss on
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efficiency, since you'll have to check every single
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packet. <p> </p>
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</li>
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<li>The main use of server passwords appears to be so that
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people can move pirated software around, and the authors
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don't want to add code to support that. <p> </p>
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</li>
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<li>This capability does NOT belong in FSP because it gets
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away from the concept of lightweight simple file
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transfers. </li>
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</ul>
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<p> </p>
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<hr>
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<h4><a name="3.4">Q.3.4 So what *does* FSP stand for?</a></h4>
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<p> </p>
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<p>As of 12th August 1993, FSP stands for `File Service
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Protocol'. Thanks to Michael Grubb (mg@ac.duke.edu) for the
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words, and Wen-King for the initials. </p>
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<p>Other suggestions were: </p>
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<p> </p>
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<ul>
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<li>File Slurping Protocol </li>
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<li>Flaky Stream Protocol </li>
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<li>FTP's Sexier Partner </li>
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</ul>
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<p> </p>
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<hr size="3">
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<h3><a name="4">Section 4: Who's Who?</a></h3>
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<h4><a name="4.1">Q.4.1 Who writes and maintains FSP software?</a></h4>
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<p> </p>
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<dl>
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<dt><b>Unix Versions:</b> </dt>
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<dd>The current maintainer (as of March 1994) is Andy Doherty
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(A.J.Doherty@reading.ac.uk), who also maintains the
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alt.comp.fsp FAQ and wrote and maintains FSPtool an
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X-Windows FSP client. <p>The previous maintainers were
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Phil Richards (pgr@sst.icl.co.uk) and Pete Bevin
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(pete@bestiary.demon.co.uk) from July 1993 to March 1994.
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Phil is also the maintainer of fspclient, an FTP-like
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interface for FSP. </p>
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<p>Joseph Traub (jtraub@dragoncat.net) was maintainer
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from Dec 1992 to July 1993 (versions 2.6.5 to 2.7.1). </p>
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<p>Wen-King Su (wen-king@cs.caltech.edu) wrote the
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original Unix version (versions 1.0 to 2.6.4). </p>
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<p> </p>
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</dd>
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<dt><b>Windows-95 / Windows-NT:</b> </dt>
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<dd>Garrick Lau (glau@husc.harvard.edu) wrote and maintains a
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Windows-95/ Windows-NT server. <p> </p>
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</dd>
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<dt><b>VMS:</b> </dt>
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<dd>Sven Pechler (S.A.Pechler@bdk.tue.nl) wrote and maintains
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a VMS version. <p> </p>
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</dd>
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<dt><b>OS/2:</b> </dt>
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<dd>OS/2 is handled by Larkin Lowrey (llowrey@ucsd.edu). <p> </p>
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</dd>
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<dt><b>MS-DOS:</b> </dt>
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<dd>Lindsey Smith, of the MS-DOS rewrite is
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lsmith@symantec.com <p> </p>
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<hr>
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<h4><a name="4.2">Q.4.2 Who writes and maintains FSP Client
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Software?</a></h4>
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<p> </p>
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<p>Jim Browne (jbrowne@jbrowne.com) and Modris Berzonis
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(imara@mii.lu.lv) are both writing (soon to be released?)
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Macintosh clients. See <a href="#2.2.3">Section 2.2.3</a>.
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</p>
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<p>Andy Doherty (A.J.Doherty@rdg.ac.uk) wrote and maintains <a
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href="#2.2.1">'FSPtool'</a> an X-Windows based Unix
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client. Also the FSP and alt.comp.fsp FAQ maintainer. </p>
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<p>Ian Heath (ih@ecs.soton.ac.uk) wrote <a href="#2.2.2">'winfsp'</a>
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an MS-Windows based client. </p>
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<p>Nicolai Langfeldt's (janl@ifi.uio.no) wrote and maintains <a
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href="#2.1">'fspcli'</a> a Perl based client. </p>
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<p>Ove Ruben R Olsen (Ruben@uib.no) wrote and maintains <a
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href="#2.1">'fspsh'</a>, another Perl based client. </p>
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<p>Phil Richards' (pgr@sst.icl.co.uk) wrote and maintains <a
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href="#2.1">'fspclient'</a>. </p>
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<p> </p>
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<hr>
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<h4><a name="4.3">Q.4.3 Who helped put this FAQ together?</a></h4>
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<p> </p>
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<p>The following people have contributed to the FAQ. Thanks very
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much to all of them. </p>
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<ul>
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<li>Pete Bevin (pete@bestiary.demon.co.uk) </li>
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<li>Tony Brannigan (tbrann@ox.ac.uk) </li>
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<li>Jim Browne (jbrowne@jbrowne.com) </li>
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<li>Nello Castiglione (anicas@cybernet.it) </li>
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<li>Dan Charrois (charro@ee.ualberta.ca) </li>
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<li>Wilson Cheung (wcheung@netcom.com) </li>
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<li>Maurizio Codogno (mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it) </li>
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<li>David DeSimone (fox@netcom.com) </li>
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<li>Ian Dickinson (vato@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk) </li>
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<li>Andy Doherty (A.J.Doherty@reading.ac.uk) </li>
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<li>Ian Heath (ih@ecs.soton.ac.uk) </li>
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<li>Jan Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no) </li>
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<li>Garrick V. Lau (glua@husc.harvard.edu) </li>
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<li>Larkin Lowrey (llowrey@ucsd.edu) </li>
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<li>Ove Ruben R Olsen (buboo@uib.no) </li>
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<li>Jerome Pier (jp@edu.unl.unlinfo) </li>
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<li>Lutz Prechelt (prechelt@ira.uka.de) </li>
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<li>Phil Richards (pgr@sst.icl.co.uk) </li>
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<li>Lindsey Smith (lsmith@symantec.com) </li>
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<li>Wen-King Su (wen-king@cs.caltech.edu) </li>
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<li>Roy Svendsen (r.e.svendsen@jus.uio.no) </li>
|
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<li>Joseph Traub (jtraub@dragoncat.net) </li>
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</ul>
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<p> </p>
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<hr size="3">
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<h3><a name="5">Section 5: Site Information</a></h3>
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<h4><a name="5.1">Q.5.1 What FSPable sites exist ?</a></h4>
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<p> </p>
|
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<p>The following is a small list of the some sites which are
|
|
available through the FSP protocol. This list should be
|
|
reasonably up to date but comes with no warranty. It is in the
|
|
unofficial "taxus" format. ftp.germany.eu.net is the
|
|
official home for FSP, the FSP software distributions and other
|
|
related packages can be found there. </p>
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<pre>
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genie.lut.ac.uk 21 genie / # small UK site
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ftp.germany.eu.net 2001 germany / # big German archive (FSP)
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fsp.luth.se 6969 luth / # Top of Europe
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src.doc.ic.ac.uk 21 src / # SUNsite Northern Europe
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terra.stack.urc.tue.nl 21 terra / # big Netherlands site
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ftp.wustl.edu 21 wu / # lots of mirrors ...
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</pre>
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<p>For more site information sources see <a href="#2.3">Q.2.3</a>
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</p>
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<h3><a name="6">Section 6: FAQ Translations</a></h3>
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<p>At least one non-english language translation of the FAQ is
|
|
now available, so this section details it, and any others that
|
|
may come along over time. </p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Bear in mind that changes to the main FAQ may take a while to
|
|
filter down through translations. Keep an eye on the date at the
|
|
top of this copy and see if it matches up to the FAQ source at <a
|
|
href="http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/faq/faq.htm">http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/faq/faq.htm</a>.
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</p>
|
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|
|
<h4><a name="6.1">6.1. Italian</a></h4>
|
|
|
|
<p>Nello Castiglione (anicas@cybernet.it) has translated the FAQ
|
|
into Italian, many thanks to him for the time and effort spent.
|
|
This translation is available from: </p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
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<li><a href="http://www.cybernet.it/fsp/faq.html">http://www.cybernet.it/fsp/faq.html</a>
|
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</li>
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</ul>
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<font size="2"><a name="DISCLAIMER">
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<p>Comments</a> and suggestions should be sent to <a
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href="mailto:A.J.Doherty@rdg.ac.uk">A.J.Doherty@rdg.ac.uk</a>.
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The information in this FAQ is in no way associated with the <a
|
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href="http://www.rdg.ac.uk/">University of Reading</a> or its <a
|
|
href="http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/">Information Technology Unit</a>.
|
|
This FAQ represents the efforts of many people to help
|
|
consolidate information about FSP. There is no guarantee that the
|
|
information in this FAQ is correct, nor can anyone contributing
|
|
to this FAQ be held responsible for the information they provide.
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</p>
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<p>Addresses in () after the answer are the email addresses of
|
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people who have contributed. Please let me know if you don't wish
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to be identified when you contribute. </font> </p>
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