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ProZilla the Download Accelerator for Linux
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GUI 2.04 Release
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Welcome, gentle reader.
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ProZilla is a download accelerator for Linux which gives you a 200% to
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300% improvement (or possibly more depending on your connection) in your
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file downloading speeds.
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Features:
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Supports FTP
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Supports HTTP including redirection.
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Proxy servers supported.
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Resume Supported.
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Improved error checking and correction.
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Complete acceleration: The file will be downloaded as fast as possible as
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your bandwidth allows.
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FTP passwords can be specified with the URL, or can be obtained
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automatically from the .netrc if it exists.
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The number of connections that prozilla uses can be changed.
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***NEW**
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Now the downloads are ALL to a SINGLE file. There is no downloading to
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individual files as was done previously.
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Multiple server based downlaoding is supported based on ftpsearch and
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ping results obtaines for a URL prozilla will attempt to make multiple
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connections to different servers and try to speed up the download even
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more.
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1. Configuring
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--------------
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Please type,
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./configure
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from the ProZilla directory to configure the package.
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Typing ./configure --help, will show you the various options that you can
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use to change the configuration process.
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2. Building
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-----------
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Once the configuration process is finished, please type
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make
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to start the compilation of the package.
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3. Installing
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If the make process was successful, then you can install it by typing
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make install
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which will install the binaries in the /usr/local/bin directory by default.
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If you wish another directory, you can change this with the --prefix option
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supplied to configure.
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If you wish that the binaries be stripped too (reduces the size), please
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type
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make install-strip
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4. Running
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Running:
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The syntax will be,
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proz <URL>
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where URL is the file you wish to download.
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For example,
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proz ftp://gnu.org/pub/README
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will connect to to the server gnu.org and start the download of the file
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README from the pub directory.
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If you want ProZilla to use a different username or password for ftp sessions,
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than the default anonymous login, you can specify it in the command line, or
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if you have a .netrc file, it will automatically select the appropriate
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username password combination for the particular host, otherwise it will use
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the default anonymous login.
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A small note
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------------
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ProZilla was written by Kalum Somaratana (aka Grendel) <kalum@genesys.ro>
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For the complete list of the people who were kind enough to contribute to
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ProZilla please read the CREDITS file and the AUTHORS file.
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It was written to fulfill the need of a good quality download accelerator
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for Linux, which would allow users (especially the people with slow dialup
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connections) to download files as fast as possible as their connection
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would allow.
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For Windoze users there already existed a good download accelerator but
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for Linux users unfortunately there wasn't much of a choice, and we hope
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that ProZilla will improve that situation considerably.
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Although we have taken great pains to test this application extensively,
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there probably may be a few bugs :(, since this is the first major
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release. However if you come across them we kindly request you to inform
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us <prozilla@genesys.ro> and we will make sure that they will be
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removed from the next release.
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We sincerely hope that you will like the download accelerator..
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Enjoy!
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Kalum Somaratana (Grendel) <kalum@genesys.ro>
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