microdc is a command-line based Direct Connect client written in C by Oskar Liljeblad and designed to compile and run on modern POSIX compatible systems such as Linux.
After releasing microdc 0.12.0 I've renamed the project to microdc2 on Oskar's request.
microdc2 available from this site is the future improvement of the microdc based on Oskar's code version 0.11.0.
In addition to features available in the microdc 0.11.0 this version provides the following new options:
microdc2 0.15.0
- Support browsing remote users using XML filelists.
- Added standalone tthsum utility to calculate TTH for specified files.
microdc2 0.14.0
This release incorporates patches made by Alexey Illarionov for microdc-0.12.0.
- Support different charsets for screen, hub and local file system
- Support of $ADCGet command (TTHL support is not implemented yet)
microdc2 0.13.0
- Automatic refresh of local file list.
- Automatic TTH calculation for local files.
- Multiple shared directory
- Single storage for file list data ($HOME/.microdc2/filelist)
microdc 0.12.0
- Timestamps in the log file.
- Automatic re-connection to the last connected hub.
- Own file list is supported in XML and XML.BZ2 format as well as originally DcLst format.
- TTH hash for local files.
2006-12-24: microdc2 0.15.6 released.
- Fixed problem with reconnecting to hub before first connect
2006-12-24: microdc2 0.15.5 released.
- Fixed problem with special characters like & " ' in file names
- Support of MiniSlots is introduced
- Workaround for misconfigured clients sending chat in UTF-8 format
- Automatically check state of link to hub in case of no activity
- Delay 10 seconds before reconnecting to hub
2006-12-09: microdc2 0.15.4 released.
- Fixed problem with non-working share command after executing set filelist_refresh_interval command
- Don't report Invalid search... message in case of empty search string
2006-11-29: microdc2 0.15.3 released.
- Fixed problem with sharing directories located on different disk drives
2006-11-29: microdc2 0.15.2 released.
- Fixed serious memory leak in new XML filelist generation
- Fixed several small memory leaks
- Fixed problem with printing From string in private chat without converting to screen charset
- filelist_refresh_interval is 32bit value now
- Fixed problem with building tthsum on FreeBSD 6.0
2006-11-28: microdc2 0.15.1 released.
- Fixed problem with CFLAGS during build on non-linux systems
2006-11-28: microdc2 0.15.0 released.
- Fixed the crash in case the user has no access to some of shared directories or subdirs
- Added new filelist_refresh_interval variable that allows to change the frequency of filelist refresh
- Fixed problem with compilation microdc2 without LIBXML2 support
- Added new log_charset variable to make the log file in different from screen charset
- Fixed problem with sending private messages via msg command
- Fixed bug with listenaddr variable - now microdc2 is listening only on specified address
- Fixed bug with showing TTH instead file names in case of $ADCGET DC command
2006-11-21: microdc2 0.14.0 released.
- Fixed the problem with listingdir variable
- Variable charset is renamed to hub_charset
- Re-designed generation of local file list - I hope now it doesn't requre a lot of memory :-)
2006-11-14: microdc2 0.13.1 released.
- Fixed the problem with compilation on OpenBSD 4.0 and FreeBSD 6.0
2006-11-13: microdc2 0.13.0 released.
- Fixed the problem with subsequent $UGetBlock command
- Almost fixed memory leakage
- Files without TTH are added to a XML file list as well as files with TTH
- Removed variable share_dir
- 2 new commands have been introduced: share and unshare
- TTH search support for remote client requests
2006-10-25: microdc 0.12.0 released.
The latest version of microdc2 is 0.15.6, which was released on 2006-12-24:
The previous versions of microdc2 are available in the archive:
microdc is copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Oskar Liljeblad
microdc2 is copyright (C) 2006 Vladimir Chugunov
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
The source code of this project may contain files from other projects, and files generated by other projects, including:
- GNU Autoconf
- GNU Automake
- GNU gettext
- Gnulib
- Autoconf Macro Archive
- Tiger: A Fast New Cryptographic Hash Function (Designed in 1995)
- bzip2 and libbzip2
Such files are licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License or a license compatible with the GNU GPL (as listed on http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license- list.html). See each file for copyright details.
The translations in the po directory may contain translations from other
projects, including:
See the specific message file (PO file) for copyright of those messages.
The following programs are required to build microdc2:
- GNU C Compiler (gcc), version 3.0 or later
microdc2 makes use of some gcc 3.x features such as declarations in the middle
of a block and always inlined functions. The GNU C Compiler is part of the
GNU Compiler Collection which can be downloaded from
http://gcc.gnu.org/. In Debian and many other
distributions the package is called gcc.
- make, a modern implementation
The make program is required to build microdc2. microdc2 uses Makefiles
generated by GNU Automake. The recommended make is GNU Make which can be
downloaded from
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/. In
Debian and many other distributions the package is called make.
The following libraries are required to run microdc2:
- GNU Readline Library, version 4.0 or later
microdc2 uses Readline for user input. GNU Readline can be downloaded from [ht
tp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html](http://cnswww.cns.cwru.
edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html). Libraries such as libedit and libeditline
do not support the necessary completion features of GNU Readline, and can as
such not be used with microdc2. In Debian woody the required package is
libreadline4 (libreadline4-dev during build). In testing and later, the
recommended package is libreadline5 (and libreadline5-dev when building).
- libxml2, version 5.6.16 or later
microdc2 uses libxml2 to generate filelist. libxml2 can be downloaded from http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html.
To build the microdc2 executable, simply run
./configure
make
If you want to install microdc2 on your system, run make install. This will
copy the executable, manual page and locale files to the appropriate
directories.
For more information regarding configure and make, see the INSTALL
document.
microdc2 is usually started like this:
microdc2
(Some command line options are available - run microdc2 --help to get a
list.) Once started, a prompt is displayed and microdc2 is ready for your
command. You can get a list of commands by pressing tab on the empty prompt or
by issuing the help command. The help command can also be used to get
information on a specific command:
help exit
not built by default. It is unnecessary due to availability of the TTH calculation within microdc2 itself.
microdc_tth is an application that can be used to maintain TTH hashes for shared files. It is usually started like this:
microdc_tth /my/share/dir
It creates .microdc_tth folder in the each subdirectory and puts the TTH hash to this folder. The XML file list contains only files with existing TTH files.
Web site and file area for microdc is hosted on Savannah:
http://www.nongnu.org/microdc/
Web site and file area for microdc2 is hosted on Corsair626:
http://corsair626.no-ip.org/microdc/
The latest version of microdc2 should always be available on this site.
Please send bug reports, suggestions, ideas or comments in general to the mailing list:
[microdc-devel@nongnu.org](http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/microdc- devel)
The author of original microdc, Oskar Liljeblad, can be contacted by e-mail on the following address:
The author of microdc2, Vladimir Chugunov, can be contacted by e-mail on the following address:
The maintainer of this repository, Josh Watts, can be contacted by e-mail on the following address: