README for Xarchie - X11 browser interface to Archie George Ferguson, ferguson@cs.rochester.edu Last Change: 5 Jul 1994 NOTE: Version 2.0.10 is an interim release to fix a few nagging bugs, update a few things and generally get the house in order (and slow the flood of email). The next release of xarchie should be 3.0, and will support the Prospero V5 servers now online. Please don't email me about 3.0---when it's ready for testing and/or general use, you'll be the first to know. Also, xarchie has not yet been tested against X11R6 or updated for it. DISCLAIMER: This is release 2.0 of xarchie -- an X browser interface to the Archie Internet information system. This software is provided as is with no warranty expressed or implied. I hope you find it useful, but I won't be held responsible for any damage that may occur from reading, compiling, installing, using, or even thinking about it. You are free to use any parts of the code that I wrote for other purposes. It would be nice if you could keep my name on some part of whatever the final product is. Parts of the code that are derived from the Prospero archie client are subject to their own copyright, which is included in "query.c" and in files that were not written by me. See the file "copyright.h" for details. Examples of other things Prospero can do are in the file "README.PROSP" in this distribution. The file "inet_ntoa.c" is part of the freely-redistributable BSD code, and is copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. The code in directory FWF for the MultiList widget and portable directory routines (Dir) was written by Brian Totty (totty@flute.cs.uiuc.edu) and is distributed by the Free Widget Foundation (contact free-widgets-request@kazoo.cs.uiuc.edu). This code is copyright 1990,1991,1992 Brian Totty. See the file FWF/COPYRIGHT for more details. The FileChooser widget was written by me based on Brian's code for FileSelector, and is subject to the same copyrights. CREDITS: The original standalone archie client was written by Brendan Kehoe, (brendan@cygnus.com), based on the Prospero archie client by Clifford Neuman, (bcn@isi.edu). The file "README.FILES" attempts to make some sense of the lineages. It should be taken with a huge grain of salt. The archie service was conceived of and implemented by Alan Emtage (bajan@bunyip.com), Peter Deutsch (peterd@bunyip.com), and Bill Heelan (wheelan@cs.mcgill.ca). For more information about the Archie service, see the manpage and then write to "info@bunyip.com". INSTALLATION: See the file INSTALL for installation instructions. Xarchie comes with a GNU Autoconf-generated configure script, and has Makefiles for the imake-impaired. PROBLEMS: See the file PROBLEMS for discussion of various often-reported problems. Please read this file *before* reporting a problem. REPORTING BUGS/KUDOS: When reporting bugs, problems, suggestions or contributions, please be sure to send them to the right place. I (George Ferguson) am really only interested in the working of the X interface. Brendan Kehoe is is charge of the archie clients and much the network stuff underlying xarchie, Cliff Neuman is in charge of Prospero, and Alan Emtage and the others are in charge of the Archie service itself. The Free Widget Foundation widgets are the responability of Brian Totty. Further details are given in the manpage. HISTORY: Version 2.0.10 - 5 Jul 1994 - Interim release. - Updated documentation to reflect status of v3.0 and X11R6. - Fixed bug in stripping CR's during FTP (ftp.c). <t30474@ee.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - Updated server list from archie.funet.fi (Xarchie.ad). - Added default for MAXHOSTNAMELEN (hostname.c). <pss@tfn.com> - Changed tildeExpand() to not modify the string its passed (tilde.c). Based on suggestion by <root@stevie.isar.muc.de> - Added non-blocking I/O defs for ultrix (ftp.c) <hurmejw@pb.com> - Added non-blocking I/O defs for Intergraph (__clipper__ in ftp.c). <mlcampb1@mikec.b30.ingr.com> - Added non-blocking I/O defs for Alliant (ftp.c). <rdr@gscs.com> - Missing close-comment in ftp.h when <arpa/ftp.h> not found. <ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za>,<rocky@panix.com> Version 2.0.9 - 24 Aug 1993 - Allow 200 reply for ftp CWD as well as 250 (ftp.c). <amoss@cs.huji.ac.il> - New servers for Korea and Sweden (Xarchie.ad). <mark@rfisk.is> - Use perror() rather than herror() in resolv.c. Hopefully this will allow resolv.c to compile, so then the configure test will be based on whether it worked or not, rather than deciding on -lresolv because the compile failed. <chris@wg.estec.esa.nl> - NeXT uses BSD-style fcntl (ftp.c). <jk@zarniwoop.pc-labor.uni-bremen.de> Version 2.0.8 - 27 Jul 1993 - Only call XtRemoveTimeOut() if HAVE_RANDOM or HAVE_RAND (about.c). <maraman@physics.purdue.edu> - New archie server for Italy (Xarchie.ad). <mau@unipi.it> - New archie server for Israel (Xarchie.ad) and weights (weight.c). <amoss@cs.huji.ac.il> - Changed ftp-actions.c to not use Boolean AND of condition flags since either R4 XtAppAddInput() chokes on them or R4 XtRemoveInput() doesn't clear one of the select()-mask bits, resulting in the "select failed" error. - Changes to files for sync with eventual varchie release. Version 2.0.7 - 30 Jun 1993 - Removed extra quotes in types.c. <DOUG@JHUVMS.HCF.JHU.EDU> - Fixed setting of menu mark on Host menu (m-settings.c). <tda10@cus.cam.ac.uk> - Duplicate line for ftpStripButton.fromVert in Xarchie.ad deleted. <dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu> - Added weights for France (weight.c) <Hugues.Leroy@irisa.fr> - Added weights for Germany (weight.c) <zink@post.inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.de>,<liebe@hrz.th-darmstadt.de> - Added new server in Switzerland (Xarchie.ad) <lenggenhager@gate.switch.ch> - Added text regarding undefined symbols in OW to PROBLEMS file. <ivan@stat.ph.albany.edu>, <palm@tokyo.rockwell.com> - Fixes for SCO OpenDesktop 3.0 (FWF/Dir/Directory.[hc]) <gws@xenitec.xenitec.on.ca> - Fixes for Encore Multimax (Umax 4.3) <Gerry.Tomlinson@newcastle.ac.uk> - Added line to About panel referring to "archie-admin" address. - Changed identifier "regexp" in FWF/Dir/RegExp.c since it conflicts with a library function on some platforms. - Deleted most sample weights from Xarchie.ad since we prefer to use the auto-select mechanism in weight.c anyway. - Added text to PROBLEMS file for people with NIS problems regarding the DISPLAY variable. Version 2.0.6 - 7 Jun 1993 - Allow SVR4 as well as SYSV for getwd() in Director.c, FChooser.c. <dana@thumper.bellcore.com> - Norwegian weights added to weight.c. <janl@ifi.uio.no> - Really released to comp.sources.x -- 2.0.5 never made it... Version 2.0.5 - 1 Jun 1993 - ISC fixes for ftp.c. Perhaps these are needed for other SYS5? <jbh@moses.aii.COM> - Serious bug in archie clients vs V5 prospero server <eanders+@cmu.edu> - Released to comp.sources.x. Version 2.0.4 - 14 May 1993 - Stupid error in about.c when neither HAVE_RANDOM nor HAVE_RAND defined. <posse@masg26.epfl.ch> - Added discussion of HP Xaw problems to PROBLEMS file. <geidel@wior.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de>,<rvloon@cv.ruu.nl>,<daves@csc.liv.ac.uk> - Cleaned up fchooser.c for when FILECHOOSER not defined. <pk@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> - Fixed Xarchie.ad and display-x.c for when MULTILIST not defined. Version 2.0.3 - 13 May 1993 - Add #include <sydio.h> to FD_SET_IN_* tests in configure.in and configure, and modify selectdefs.h (for AIX machines, methinks). <weiss@zeus.rz.th-leipzig.de>, <rob@psy.vu.nl> - Fixed icon problems on color displays by applying the icon resources to realToplevel rather than toplevel in xarchie.c. <jhahn@nadia.snu.ac.kr> - Check for NULL return from ftpNewContext() in ftp-actions.c (happens when nameserver lookup fails). <nms@ussr.eu.net> - -iconic was being ignored, so remove explicit XtMapWidget() call in xarchie.c. <scott@udel.edu> - Apply tilde expansion to initial ftpLocalDir resource. <amoss@cs.huji.ac.il> - Fix auto-scroll when more than one selection so last selection is visible rather than first. <amoss@cs.huji.ac.il> - Fix fchooser.c for when FILECHOOSER not defined. <pk@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> - Weights for US need ".org", some other updates to weights.c. <ckd@eff.org> - Fixed syserr.c: Use HAVE_SYS_ERRLIST properly and fix comments. - Some additions to PROBLEMS file. - Changed the way the version number is printed (about.c, help.c). - Changed style of the animation in the About window (in my infinite spare time). Version 2.0.2 - 28 Apr 1993 - Change default server to archie.sura.net(1526). That is, specify alternate port. <eanders@sura.net> - Change constant used in ftp.h from _FTP_H to _XA_FTP_H since there was a conflict with wuarchive replacement <arpa/ftp.h>. <dec@alex.com>,<C.C.Boucher@southampton.ac.uk> - Cleaned up status messages in browser.c and ftp.c. Version 2.0.1 - 26 Apr 1993 - Include <stdio.h> in tilde.c to get NULL defined. Duuh. Jonathan Stone <jonathan@oscar.stanford.edu> Version 2.0 - 23 Apr 1993 * Major improvements include: - Multiple selections allowed in browser for use with other new features (FWF MultiList widget). - Ability to expand directories in browser. - Real fully-integrated ftp implementation. - Ability to save and reload query results, as well as print them. - Ability to resort results, and sort results by user-definable pseudo-weights. - Online help browser. - Color resources, done so that they don't break mono displays. - FWF FileSelector widget for local file operations. - Makefile.dst's supplied for the imake-impaired. * Fixes and reconsiderations include: - Did away with EzMenus, which I didn't exploit fully anyway and which were causing portability problems. - Did away with user-definable widget hierarchies since I doubt that anyone used them and XtNameToWidget() was a problem for many people. I still use it in a few places, but not crucially. - A fix for the crashing Text widgets, I think, and fixed the query-while-querying crash bug. - Browser code rewritten to isolate display dependencies, which allowed the development of a Curses browser client, to be released soon. * Major contributors for this version include: - Alan Emtage (bajan@bunyip.com) Amos Shapira <amoss@cs.huji.ac.il> - Donated code that was warped into the ftp implementation. - Peter J Nilsson (pjn@ida.liu.se) - Suggested the "sort by weight" feature, and donated code. - Brian Totty (totty@cs.uiuc.edu) - Allowed use of the Free Widget Foundation MultiList and FileSelector widgets, in directory FWF. * The undauntable beta-testers (there were more, sorry if I missed you): Amos Shapira <amoss@cs.huji.ac.il> Jay Bourland <jayb@MATH.ColoState.EDU> long%imagen.materials@ox.ac.uk (Neil J Long) darrell@dcs119.dcsnod.uwf.edu (Darrell Werries) Kevin O'Connor <kocon@ctp.com> simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen) palm@tokyo.rockwell.com (Stephen [kiwin] PALM) John Howells <howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov> David Meleedy <dmm@worf.harvard.edu> Brendan Kehoe <brendan@cs.widener.edu> osyjm@fubar.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) jjsc@informatics.rutherford.ac.uk (John Cullen) Lee M J McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk> davidw@uiuc.edu (David Wojtowicz) Larry W. Virden, x2487 (lwv27@cas.org) * Reports of problems/wishes with 1.3, some of which made it 2.0: Jonathan I. Kamens (jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU) Lauren Weinstein (lauren@cv.vortex.com) Larry W. Virden, x2487 (lwv27@cas.org) Stephen Malowany (malowany@cenparmi.concordia.ca) Thomas A Peterson (tap@src.honeywell.com) Joachim Schrod (schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de) Marshal Linfoot (marshal@nexus.yorku.ca) Paul Close (pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com) Bill Silvert (silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca) Michael Wojcik (woj@ll.mit.edu) Anthony J. Persechini (ajp2o@crocus.medicine.rochester.edu) G|ran Uddeborg (uddeborg@sisug.sisu.se) Jim Watt (jimw@PE-Nelson.COM) Theo Vosse (VOSSE@rulfsw.LeidenUniv.nl) David N. Blank-Edelman (dnb@meshugge.media.mit.edu) Warren R Carithers (wrc@cs.rit.edu) Mike Szloh (szloh@jupiter.cse.UTOLEDO.edu) David Meleedy (dmm@worf.harvard.edu) Jonathan Stone (jonathan@isor.vuw.ac.nz) Marc E. Fiuczynski (mef@klinzhai.rutgers.edu) Peter K. Campbell (p.campbell@trl.oz.au) Christopher T Hubbard (chubbard@ecn.purdue.edu) John Keener (keener@astro.psu.edu) Dave Brennan (brennan@hal.com) William Stephen Kish (wk0x+@andrew.cmu.edu) Kevin O'Connor (kevin@ctp.com) Tim Auckland (tda10@cus.cam.ac.uk) dockhorn@gate.fzi.de Version 1.3 - 12 Nov 1991 - Separated EzMenu widget creation from others by adding .menus resource and slightly changing initWidgets() in xarchie.c. This hopefully prevents those annoying core dumps under old or otherwise strange version of X. Also renamed the "hostText" on the Settings form to "setHostText" again in hopes of avoiding the problem. - Added archie.sura.net to hostMenu and made it the default elsewhere. - "-debug" formerly didn't want an argument -- fixed. - Made dirsend() asynchronous by restructuring it, so xarchie will now refresh and can be interrupted during queries. Added "Abort" button to interrupt queries. - Removed comments about gcc from this file and the Imakefile since it's handled automatically in dirsend.c using SUN_GNU_FIX. - From the TODO file: Fixed default-settings() action so it uses as defaults the values of the application resources when xarchie starts up. - Added confirmation of quitting and -expert flag (and expert resource) to avoid it if desired. - Tweaked resources for better layout, better resizing, etc, etc. - From: bajan@cs.mcgill.ca - Updated man page and added Bill Heelan acknowledgement. - From: khushro@zip.eecs.umich.edu - Added "save-to-file()" action. - From: Dennis Shiao <shiao@ans.net> - ftp.c called alert0() rather than alert1(). - From: Lee M J McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.imperial.ac.uk> - Added archie.doc.ic.ac.uk to hostMenu - From: Amos Shapira <amoss@cs.huji.ac.il> - Added cs.huji.ac.il to hostMenu. - From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) - Changes to many files from the "archie" distribution, including more portable #includes and Prospero warning message handling. Includes new file perrmesg.c. - Provide udp.c to test whether UDP traffic is enabled. - From bcn@isi.edu (Clifford Neuman) - Changed dirsend.c to compare connection id's rather than hostnames, based on an observation from Lee McLoughlin, among other Prospero stuff. Version 1.2 - 12 Sep 1991 - Changed LowerCase() in types.c (from Xt manual example) to XmuCopyISOLatin1Lowered() since the former was not always compiled into X. - Added resources "ftpDir" and "ftpType" and corresponding items on the Settings panel so the ftp service is a bit better. - From: beser@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Nick Beser) - Fixed regex support in Imakefile. Added regex.h which is included by support.c and actions.c. - From: Greg Lindahl <gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU>) - Changed strcasecmp() in types.c to XmuCompareISOLatin1() since some systems don't have the former. - Changed two leftover instances of isspace() to ISSPACE() in xarchie.c. - From: "(Simon Leinen)" <simon@liasun1.epfl.ch> and: Alan B Clegg <abc@concert.net> - Changed some widget names in resource file since the Settings form wasn't being laid out correctly. Version 1.1 - 4 Sep 1991 Released to comp.sources.x.
