=head1 About ncdc =head2 What about other text-mode clients? L - A rather nice client, yet not exactly there. It's limited to connecting to a single hub, hasn't been updated since 2006, and the readline interface is slightly awkward to use. L - Can't comment much on this, except maybe that rocket science is perhaps easier than getting nanodc to compile. LDCC - Uses DCTC as backend and an interface based on TurboVision. All mentioned projects are dead: neither LDCC, DCTC nor TurboVision are seeing any recent development. L - Appears to have a commandline inter-face as well. I haven't personally tried it, but have not heard much positive things about it. Has not seen any recent development, either. =head2 Why did you start from scratch? Why not use the DC++ core? There are many reasons why I chose not to use code from existing projects, but all of them boil down to the following two: 1) I am a control freak, and 2) personal preferences. That is the short answer. The long answer will require a full article, and I don't feel like writing that much at this point. >_> =head2 What protocol features does ncdc support? For ADC: BASE, RF, TIGR, BZIP, ADCS and KEYP. For NMDC: NoGetINFO, NoHello, UserIP2, MiniSlots, XmlBZList, ADCGet, TTHL and TTHF. ncdc also support TLS-enabled connections for both hub connections and client-to-client connections on both ADC and NMDC protocols. Note that ncdc does not support some of the older NMDC protocol features, like $Get, $GetZBlock, $CHUNK, $Cancel or non-XML file lists. I am not aware of an other up-to-date client that still uses any of these features. =head1 Troubleshooting =head2 How do I install ncdc on Ubuntu? This is for Ubuntu 11.10, but may work for other versions as well. Run the following command: sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev libgdbm-dev\ libncursesw5-dev libxml2-dev libglib2.0-dev gnutls-bin And then follow the instructions in the README. =head2 I'm getting the error "No PEM-encoded private key found" on startup Most likely this is caused by a L. To get around it, install the "certtool" utility that comes with gnutls (package "gnutls-bin" on Ubuntu), delete the old certificates ("rm ~/.ncdc/cert/*"), and then start ncdc again. =head2 Why doesn't ncdc rotate log files automatically? Because you can easily do that yourself. You can either use logrotate or a simple script that runs from a cron. For an example of the latter option, L, which is run as a monthly cron job. =head1 Can ncdc... =head2 Can ncdc use the hash data or configuration from an existing DC++ installation? No, ncdc uses its own configuration and hash storage directory. However, on popular demand I could write a conversion utility to transfer the hash data from other clients to ncdc's format. =head2 Can ncdc run in the background / as a daemon? As with most ncurses applications: no. At least, it does not have this functionality built-in. Ncdc is designed to be used in combination with a separate terminal multiplexer or detach utility to handle this. Have a look at L, L or L. =head2 Does ncdc support TLS? Yes! To make use of this, however, you need to have relatively new version of glib2. If you're still working with an outdated system, an alternative is to use L to connect to TLS-enabled hubs. This trick does not allow encrypted client-to-client connections, so your file transfers will remain unencrypted. The following example stunnel configuration is what I used to connect to the DC Development hub before ncdc had native TLS support: [dcdev] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:16591 connect = hub.dcbase.org:16591 The URL `adc://127.0.0.1:16591/' can then be used to connect to the hub from within ncdc. =head2 Does ncdc support UPnP? Not natively. However, it is possible to use L and manually keep a port open using a cron job. I have no experience with this myself, though. I just run ncdc directly on my router. :-) =head2 Are there any programs available for analyzing the transfers.log file? Nothing like that is included in the release yet, but there is a simple Perl script available: L.