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I'm not the biggest fan of how the info window works, but it works anyway, and it's easy to apply to *all* the download links. Also decided to sign & checksum static binaries. Those are just as important (if not more so) than the source tarballs. Yes, I did verify that my copies of all the files were still in line with the other checksums before creating the SHA256 checksums. :) And I think I'm done fiddling with the site now; This is the last of my planned changes. ...except that the site kinda sucks in text-mode browsers now. Hmm. But how do I improve that?
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% NCurses Direct Connect
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Ncdc is a modern and lightweight direct connect client with a friendly ncurses
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interface.
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## Get ncdc!
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Latest version
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: 1.21 ([ncdc-1.21.tar.gz](/download/ncdc-1.21.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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[64-bit](/download/ncdc-linux-x86_64-1.21.tar.gz) -
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[32-bit](/download/ncdc-linux-i486-1.21.tar.gz) -
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[ARM](/download/ncdc-linux-arm-1.21.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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Community
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: - [Bug tracker](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdc/bug) - For bugs reports, feature requests and patches.
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- `adcs://dc.blicky.net:2780/` - For real-time chat.
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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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[Fedora](https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ncdc/overview/) -
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[FreeBSD](http://www.freshports.org/net-p2p/ncdc/) -
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[Frugalware](http://frugalware.org/packages?srch=ncdc&op=pkg&arch=all&ver=all) -
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[Gentoo](http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-p2p/ncdc) -
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[GNU Guix](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/package-list.html) -
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[Homebrew](http://braumeister.org/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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I have a few old packages on the [Open Build
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Service](https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:yorhel/ncdc), but
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these are unmaintained. The static binaries are preferred.
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A convenient installer is available for
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[Android](http://code.ivysaur.me/ncdcinstaller.html).
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## Features
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Common features all modern 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. Yet.
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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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These will all be addressed in later versions (hopefully :).
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