Phex is a successor of Furi

I didnīt find much time to write a readme yet, so just stick

to the original readme by William W. Wong below.







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FURI - a distributed, peer-to-peer file sharing system.

By: William W. Wong

Revised Date: 5/1/2000

Email: williamw@jps.net

Website: http://www.jps.net/williamw/furi/







Disclaimers

===========



FURI is distributed in the hope that it will be useful.

It is provided "as is", without any warranty whatsoever.

Its developer disclaims all warranties and conditions,

either express or implied, including, without limitation,

warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular

purpose.  To the extent allowed by applicable law, in no

event will its developer or its suppliers be liable for

any damages, including, without limitation, direct, indirect,

special, incidental or consequential damages of any kind,

even if its developer or its suppliers has been advised of

the possibility of such damages.



Note that in some countries it is against the law to

distribute copyrighted material without the permission of 

the copyright holder.





Introduction

============



It was said that Internet was created with the goal of surviving

a nuclear attack.  Gnutella net is organized in a similar fashion.

It's totally distributed; there is no central server.  Machines

are connected to each other in a peer to peer setup, in a completely

unpreditably way.  It allows many users to open up their own machines

and share files with anyone.  It let users to search others' shared

directories, to download files from each other.  It is a new way

to share information.



FURI is a Gnutella protocol-compatible Java program that can

participate in the Gnutella network.  It is a full version program

that can perform most of the tasks of a Gnutella servant.





System Requirement

==================



FURI will run in any platform that supports Java.



FURI requires Java JDK 1.2.2 or up.  It also work with 1.1.7 or up

with Swing 1.1.1 support.  It runs on JDK 1.3 as well.



Java plus Swing is a memory hog.  When running, FURI usually fluctuate

between 8 megs to 20 megs of memory usage, back and forth.  It would

run comfortably on a 64 megs machine.  Probably runs fine on a 48 megs

machine.  You might experience sluggishness when running it on a 

32 megs machine.





Installation

============



Currently, no installer.  Don't know whether there will ever

be one.



Simply unzip the files from the zip file into a directory.





Running FURI

============



The starting class for FURI is furi.f.  The jar file

furi.jar contains all the classes (and source) of FURI.

Place the furi.jar file into your Java classpath.  Make

sure the Java runtime class libraries have been set up

properly in the classpath as well.  Remember FURI needs

Java JDK 1.2.2, or JDK 1.1.7 and Swing 1.1.1.



Type the following to invoke FURI.



	java furi.f



For JDK 1.2 and up, you can alternatively start FURI by:



	java -jar furi.jar



For JDK 1.2 on Windows 95/98/NT/NT2000, you can simply

double-click on the furi.jar to run it.







Where to Find Gnutella Hosts

============================



The following links are good places to look for starting host

to connect.  Once you connected one host, you are in the

Gnutella network.  You can connect to addition hosts by looking

at the host catcher.



http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~havardot/betaz/GNUTELLA.net

http://gnutella.nerdherd.net/





Beta

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FURI is current in beta.  The program is still very rough.

Please bear with any bugs and shortcomings.  For bug report,

please email back to me at: williamw@jps.net.  Thanks.



Check the following website for periodic updates of FURI.

http://www.jps.net/williamw/furi/





Development Work

================



I really prefer to work alone.  As I found out over the years, 

software development is mainly an individual endeavor.  If you

figure out a bug, please report it back to me.  If you want

certain feature, please let me know, and I will schedule it

into the development cycle.  Please don't write a separate

module and send it to me to expect me to incorporate it.

Thank you.





Happy Sharing!





