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