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93 lines
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% NCurses Direct Connect
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Ncdc is a lightweight direct connect client with a friendly ncurses interface.
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## Get ncdc! <a href="/ncdc/feed.atom"><img src="/img/feed_icon.png" alt="Atom feed"></a>
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Latest version
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: 1.25 (2025-03-04 - [ncdc-1.25.tar.gz](/download/ncdc-1.25.tar.gz)
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\- [changes](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdc/changes))
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Convenient static binaries for Linux:
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[x86-64](/download/ncdc-linux-x86_64-1.25.tar.gz) -
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[i486](/download/ncdc-linux-i486-1.25.tar.gz) -
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[ARM](/download/ncdc-linux-arm-1.25.tar.gz) -
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[AArch64](/download/ncdc-linux-aarch64-1.25.tar.gz). Check the
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[installation instructions](/ncdc/install) for more info.
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Development version
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: The latest development version is available from git and can be cloned using
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`git clone git://g.blicky.net/ncdc.git`. The repository is available for
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[online browsing](https://g.blicky.net/ncdc.git/).
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Requirements
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: The following libraries are required: ncurses, zlib, bzip2, sqlite3, glib2 and
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gnutls.
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Ncdc is entirely written in C and available under a liberal MIT license.
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Project Status
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: Passive maintenance. No active development has been happening for a while,
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but I'm still around to implement fixes and the occasional feature update.
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Packages and ports
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: Are available for the following systems:
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[Arch Linux](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ncdc/) -
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[Debian](https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ncdc&searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all§ion=all) -
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[Fedora](https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ncdc/overview/) -
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[FreeBSD](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=ncdc&stype=all) -
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[Frugalware](http://frugalware.org/packages?srch=ncdc&op=pkg&arch=all&ver=all) -
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[GNU Guix](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/N/) -
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[Gentoo](http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-p2p/ncdc) -
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[Homebrew](https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ncdc) -
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[OpenSUSE](http://packman.links2linux.org/package/ncdc) -
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[Source Mage](http://download.sourcemage.org/grimoire/codex/test/ftp/ncdc/) -
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[Ubuntu](https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ncdc&searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all§ion=all) -
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[Void Linux](https://voidlinux.org/packages/?arch=x86_64&q=ncdc).
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A convenient installer is available for
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[Android](http://code.ivysaur.me/ncdcinstaller.html) as well.
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## Features
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Common features all non-ancient DC clients (should) have:
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- Connecting to multiple hubs at the same time,
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- Support for both ADC and NMDC protocols,
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- Chatting and private messaging,
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- Browsing the user list of a connected hub,
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- Share management and file uploading,
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- Connections and download queue management,
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- File list browsing,
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- TTH-checked, multi-source and segmented file downloading,
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- Searching for files,
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- Secure hub (adcs:// and nmdcs://) and client connections on both protocols,
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- Bandwidth throttling,
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- IPv6 support.
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And special features not commonly found in other clients:
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- Different connection settings for each hub,
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- Encrypted UDP messages (ADC SUDP),
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- Subdirectory refreshing,
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- Nick notification and highlighting in chat windows,
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- Trust on First Use for TLS-enabled hubs,
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- A single listen port for both TLS and TCP connections,
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- Efficient file uploads using sendfile(),
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- Large file lists are opened in a background thread,
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- Doesn't trash your OS file cache (with the flush\_file\_cache option enabled),
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- (Relatively...) low memory usage.
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## What doesn't ncdc do?
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Since the above list is getting larger and larger every time, it may be more
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interesting to list a few features that are (relatively) common in other DC
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clients, but which ncdc doesn't do.
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- NAT Traversal,
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- OP features (e.g. client detection, file list scanning and other useful stuff for OPs),
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- SOCKS support.
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Of course, there are many more features that could be implemented or improved,
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but given development is currently kind of dead, there's a good chance none of
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it will happen anytime soon.
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