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Last-modified: 1996/08/19
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File Service Protocol (FSP)
Frequently Asked Questions

(Last Updated: 25th June 1996)

These are the answers to some of the frequently asked questions about FSP.
Posted twice monthly to alt.comp.fsp, alt.answers and news.answers.

This information is mostly compiled from the alt.comp.fsp newsgroup,
although many other people and information sources also contribute. It is
edited and prepared by Andy Doherty
(A.J.D...@reading.ac.uk) - who is also the current maintainer of the FSP
software.

This FAQ may be found in the alt.comp.fsp newsgroup and from the news
archives at rtfm.mit.edu . However, the most recent version will always be
found at its WWW home of http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/faq/faq.htm

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News:

* The Beta 3 release of 2.8.1 will go to a full release at the end of
August. At this time it will be distributed to distribution sites and
will replace the 2.7.1 release. See
http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/FSP281.htm for more details. If you know
of any problems with this release then please report them now.

* The Beta 4 release of an FSP server for Windows-95/Windows-NT is now
available. See http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~glau/fspd/ for more
information, or section 1.2 of this document.

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Recent Additions: (Latest First)

* Email Address Updates [4.3]
* New Windows-95/Windows-NT FSP server [1.2]
* What about FSP Software Updates ? [2.5]
* Updates to Macintosh FSP client information [2.2.4]
* Italian translation of FAQ available [6.1]
* Updates to Macintosh FSP server information [1.2]

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Contents

* 1: Introduction and Help

o 1.1 What's alt.comp.fsp? What's FSP?
o 1.2 Where can I get FSP?
o 1.3 Help! I don't understand how to use FSP!
o 1.4 What are those funny "R" and "I" characters?
o 1.5 Why should I, as a site admin, run an FSP daemon?
o 1.6 Why do FSP clients appear to hang sometimes ?

* 2: FSP software and resources

o 2.1 Where can I get an FTP-like interface for FSP?
o 2.2 Where can I get a graphical interface for FSP?
+ 2.2.1 UNIX (X-Windows)
+ 2.2.2 MS-Windows
+ 2.2.3 OS/2
+ 2.2.4 Macintosh
o 2.3 Where can I get hold of a list of sites?
o 2.4 Where can I get pictures of naked women in compromising
positions and a copy of SuperRoboTermiSonicBuster IV ?
o 2.5 What about FSP Software Updates ?

* 3: Technical Issues

o 3.1 What are the main differences between FSP and FTP? How does
FSP work?
o 3.2 How secure/anonymous is FSP?
o 3.3 Why not add passwords to FSP?
o 3.4 So what *does* FSP stand for?

* 4: Who's who in FSP?

o 4.1 Who writes and maintains FSP software?
o 4.2 Who writes and maintains FSP client software?
o 4.3 Who helped put this FAQ together?

* 5: Site Information

o 5.1 What FSPable sites exist ?

* 6: FAQ Translations

o 6.1 Italian

* Notes and Disclaimer

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Section 1: Introduction and Help

Q.1.1 What's alt.comp.fsp? What's fsp?

Alt.comp.fsp is a Usenet newsgroup for discussing the FSP file transmission
protocol. It was created on Tuesday 4th May 1993 by Wen-King Su
(wen-...@cs.caltech.edu) after there was no objection on alt.config.
Before the newsgroup, there was a mailing list (fsp-discussion) for talking
about FSP software internals. This newsgroup is for discussion of both
writing and using the software.

FSP is a protocol, a bit like FTP (but see below), for moving files around.
It's designed for anonymous archives, and has protection against server and
network overloading. It doesn't use connections, so it can survive things
falling over.

Quote: `FSP is what anonymous FTP *should* be'.

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Q.1.2 Where can I get FSP from?

The `official' place for FSP distributions is ftp.germany.eu.net

* ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp
* fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp

It is available both by FTP and FSP: the FSP server is on port 2001.

The latest release versions for each platform are:

* Unix : Version 2.7.1
o ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsp.271.tar.gz

* Windows-95/NT: Version 1.0 beta 4 - based upon the v.2.7.1 Unix
release
o ftp://glau.student.harvard.edu/fsp/ofspdb04.zip
o fsp://glau.student.harvard.edu/fsp/ofspdb04.zip
o http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~glau/fspd/

* OS/2: Version 1.0 - based upon the v.2.7.1 Unix release
o ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/os2fsp21.zip

* Macintosh: FSP Server 2.7.1a2 An Alpha release based upon UNIX v.2.7.1
o ftp://ftp.mii.lu.lv/pub/Mac/FSP/FSPServer2.7.1a2.sea.hqx

* VMS : Version 2.7.1
o ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsp.271.tar.gz

* MS-DOS: PC FSP Version 1.05 - based upon the v.2.6.5 Unix release
o ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/pcfsp105.zip

The Unix version is the `original', and was originally written by Wen-King
Su: Joseph Traub took over for a while, followed by Phil Richards and Pete
Bevin, Andrew Doherty maintains it currently. The same distribution
contains patches by Sven Pechler to make it run on VMS. Larkin Lowrey wrote
the OS/2 version, Lindsey Smith wrote the MS-DOS version and Garrick Lau
wrote the Windows-95/NT version. Email addresses are in Section 4.

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Q.1.3 Help! I don't understand how to use FSP!

If you're already familiar with FTP, you might want to use one of the
FTP-like clients instead, or even a graphical interface. See the answers to
questions 2.1 and 2.2 below for details of how to get them.

The following tutorial is adapted from an article in alt.comp.fsp by David
DeSimone (f...@netcom.com).

The original FSP seems to have been designed for use with csh aliases, so
if you use csh, try these aliases in your .cshrc:

# FSP aliases:
alias fcat '(set noglob; exec fcatcmd \!*)'
alias fcd 'setenv FSP_DIR `(set noglob; exec fcdcmd \!*)`'
alias fget '(set noglob; exec fgetcmd \!*)'
alias fgrab '(set noglob; exec fgrabcmd \!*)'
alias fls '(set noglob; exec flscmd -F \!*)'
alias fll '(set noglob; exec flscmd -l \!*)'
alias fpro '(set noglob; exec fprocmd \!*)'
alias fpwd 'echo "$FSP_HOST ($FSP_PORT): $FSP_DIR"'
alias frm '(set noglob; exec frmcmd \!*)'
alias frmdir '(set noglob; exec frmdircmd \!*)'
alias fhost 'set fsp_host=(\!*); source ~/bin/fhost; unset fsp_host'

The last alias, "fhost", is my own invention, and the ~/bin/fhost file
looks like this:

#!/bin/csh
#
# Since this script sets environment variables, it really needs
# to be source'd rather than executed. Thus the following alias
# should be used:
#
# alias fhost 'set fsp_host=(\!*); source ~/.bin/fhost; unset fsp_host'
#

if ( $#fsp_host > 0 ) then

setenv FSP_HOST $fsp_host[1]

if ( $#fsp_host > 1 ) then
setenv FSP_PORT $fsp_host[2]
else
setenv FSP_PORT 21
endif

if ( $#fsp_host > 2 ) then
setenv FSP_DIR $fsp_host[3]
else
setenv FSP_DIR /
endif

endif

if ( $?FSP_HOST ) then
echo "$FSP_HOST ($FSP_PORT): $FSP_DIR"
endif

This alias lets you "connect" to a host quickly and easily. For instance,
to start out I give the following command:

% fhost wuarchive.wustl.edu
wuarchive.wustl.edu (21):

The "fhost" command tells me where I'm connected, on what port, and in what
directory.

Since all "fhost" does is set up some environment variables, we aren't
REALLY connected. To find out if the site is responding, just do a quick
"fls":

% fls
README etc/ mirrors2/ pub/
README.NFS graphics/ mirrors3/ systems/
edu/ mirrors/ private/

Looks like we're up and running! Navigating with FSP is now just like using
the local filesystem, except the commands have "f" in front of them. For
instance:

% fcd /systems/amiga/incoming
directory mode: (owner: some other machine)(delete: NO)(create: NO)
% fls
AT3D-Demo.bad devel/ utils/
AT3D-Demo.readme fish/ wb30/
comm/ programming/ demos/
text/

Other nice commands like "fcat filename" let me see what's out there, or
for larger files, "fcat filename | less" is very effective.

Once I see a nice file that I want copied to my local system, I just give
the "fget filename" command and away it goes. Usually I type "fget filename
&" which throws the transfer request into the background. Then I can
immediately go off and "fcd" to some other directory and look for more
files to grab, "fcat"-ing the README files and such.

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Q.1.4 What are those funny "R" and "I" characters?

When FSP doesn't get any response from the server, it keeps on sending
requests. The first time it retries, it prints an "R", (meaning "Retry"),
and the second, third, and subsequent times, it prints an "I". You might
also see an "E", which means "error": FSP got a packet, but it was
corrupted for some reason.

Fspclient does it slightly differently: it starts by printing "r" and "R"
characters, and then uses "-\|/" characters to draw a spinning bar. As Phil
Richards (the author) says, `I quite often see spinning bars, but usually
only after the fifth pint'.

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Q.1.5 Why should I, as a site admin, run an FSP daemon?

Because it's one more way people can access your site, and it won't cost
you much extra load on the machine. The FSP daemon never forks, so it won't
increase your load average by more than one. FSP doesn't add much to the
network load either, and you can limit the amount of data the daemon will
send out per second.

FSP allows comprehensive logging, running off inetd, README files per
directory, banning on per-host or per-network basis, reverse naming and
read-only sites. The only thing anonymous FTP gives that FSP doesn't is
having the user type in an email address, and of course, this can easily be
faked. FSP logs give the user's hostname, which is harder to fake.

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Q.1.6 Why do FSP clients appear to hang sometimes ?

When unable to get a response to it's last request an FSP client use a
non-linear algorithm to increase the delay until they re-try. Effectively
this means that during a transfer a client may appear to be sitting their
doing nothing for periods of time, as the timeout in use increases to high
values, to paraphrase Wen-King Su - "the algorithm is brain damaged". This
problem has been addressed in the next release of FSP (in beta testing).

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Section 2: FSP software and resources

Q.2.1 Where can I get an FTP-like interface for FSP?

Phil Richards' (p...@sst.icl.co.uk) fspclient. The latest version (still
pre-alpha, but more reliable than your average beta release) is
fspclient.0.0-h. You can get it by FTP from

* ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspclient.0.0-h+.tar.z
* fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspclient.0.0-h+.tar.z

Another interface to use is Nicolai Langfeldt's 'fspcli'. It has a ftp like
interface and more. It has been posted on alt.sources. Another nice thing
about it is that it's a small(ish) perl script rather than a large compiled
executable, and it's not alpha OR beta. Presently the latest version is
1.2.1 and is available at

* ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspcli-1.2.1.tar.gz
* fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspcli-1.2.1.tar.gz

Ove Ruben R Olsen (Ru...@uib.no) has written a client quite similar to
Nicolai's, but even smaller. It is available at

* ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspsh113.tar.gz
* fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fspsh113.tar.gz

Note that if you want to use either of the last two clients, you'll have to
have the Perl language installed. You can get the latest version by FTP
from prep.ai.mit.edu in /pub/gnu/perl*, or from most sites which mirror
GNU, such as ftp.germany.eu.net .

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Q.2.2 Where can I get a graphical interface for FSP?

2.2.1 For Unix (X-Windows) ...

The interface I use is FSPtool (not suprising really :-) ) by myself
[Andy Doherty (A.J.D...@reading.ac.uk)]. It is an XView based
client for the X Window System. Available from:

o ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsptool-1.6.1.tar.gz
o fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net:2001/pub/networking/inet/fsp/fsptool-1.6.1.tar.gz
o ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/fsptool-1.6.1.tar.gz

Like fspcli and fspshell, it acts as an interface to the standard FSP
shell commands, rather than rewriting them itself.

Note that to use this package, you will need the XView libraries, if
you're using a Sun workstation, or the standard MIT X11R5/R6
distribution you should be you're OK: otherwise, you might have to get
and compile them yourself.

2.2.2 For MS-Windows ...

winfsp12.zip by Ian Heath (i...@ecs.soton.ac.uk) is a MSW client using
WINSOCK.DLL . It's available from

o ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/ibmpc/win3/winsock/winfsp12.zip
o ftp://ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/win3/winsock/winfsp12.zip
o ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/winfsp12.zip
o fsp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/winfsp12.zip

fsp4win.zip by Ben Youngdahl (youn...@cs.umn.edu) is another MSW
client using WINSOCK.DLL . Still in Beta release it's available from

o ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/windows/winsock-indstate/fsp/fsp4win.zip

2.2.3 For OS/2 ...

If you're an OS/2 user, you can use the OS/2 client by Albert Crosby
(acr...@uafhp.uark.edu). It wraps around the OS/2 FSP software (see
1.2), and also requires RexxMenu and RxU. It can read a list of files
in the standard FSP host listing format, and uses RexxMenu's
point-and-click interface.

Alternatively Larkin Lowrey (llo...@ucsd.edu) has an OS/2 FSP client
(version 1.0). This can be found at ftp.cdrom.com as
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/tcpip/fsp2_10a.zip

This version includes clients for IBM's TCP/IP 1.2.1 and TCP/IP 2.0.
Both are 32-bit and fully handle longfilenames.

2.2.4 For the Macintosh ...

Jim Browne (jbr...@jbrowne.com) is working on a version for the
Macintosh. If you're interested you can ask to be put on a mailing
list by mailing him at jbr...@jbrowne.com. The latest version is
available at http://www.jbrowne.com/Projects/MacFSP.html. Older
versions are available from the following places:

o ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/comm/tcp/
o ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/tcp/
o ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/mac/sumex/Communication/tcp/mac-fsp-10b13.hqx

Alternatively another beta client - Modris Berzonis'
(im...@mii.lu.lv), "FSP Client for Macintosh 2.7.1b9" - is available
from:

o ftp://ftp.mii.lu.lv/pub/Mac/FSP/FSPClient2.7.1b10.sea.hqx

Last but not least is Tim Endres' (ti...@ice.com) "FSPMac 1.1"
available from:

o ftp://ftp.msen.com/pub/vendor/ice/FSPMac-1.1.hqx

All email enquires about FSPMac should be sent to (mac...@ice.com).

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Q.2.3 Where can I get hold of a list of sites?

Dan Charrois's provides both a "finger" based read-only service and a WWW
based service.

* finger cha...@bode.ee.ualberta.ca
* http://nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca/~charro/fsp

Interruptions have been experienced with the "finger" service at Dan's
site, in case of difficulty use the WWW service instead.

He is also happy to accept new site information and updates via direct
email (cha...@ee.ualberta.ca), this information would then be available via
the finger and WWW services.

A second WWW based FSP list service can also be found at:

* http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/sitelist/
* http://www.cybernet.it/fsp/ (Italian language Version)

This site is based upon the server originally maintained by Roy Svendsen
and now re-hosted to these locations. It allows list additions to be made
direct from forms supporting browsers.

A small list of sites can be found in Section 5.

You are encouraged to make use of these site information services or to
post site information to alt.comp.fsp . If you post in the format below,
most people will be able to slurp your list straight into their front-end
programs.

The standard for the format is:

hostname port alias root-directory # comment

for example:

ftp.germany.eu.net 2001 germany / # big German archive (FSP)

Hostnames should be actual names rather than IP addresses wherever
possible.

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Q.2.4 Where can I get pictures of naked women in compromising positions and
a copy of SuperRoboTermiSonicBuster II ?

Seriously, FSP has a reputation of being for "crooks and perverts". If you
know any sites carrying illegal material, then do them a favour and keep
them to yourself. Posting them won't make you any friends.

If someone posts a list of sites, and you didn't want them to, please don't
publicly flame them. It doesn't endear you to anyone. If you must put them
right, send email. Thank you.

PS: Don't ask me either.

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Q.2.5 What about FSP Software Updates ?

The revision of the FSP protocol to version 3.0 is currently on going.
Forums for discussion are the alt.comp.fsp newsgroup and the
fsp-dis...@germany.eu.net mailing list.

Current work in progress includes an FSP RFC (Request For Comments) -
basically an internet specification of the protocol; alterations to improve
security facilities; a programmers API and miscellanous extra features &
facilities.

In the meantime a new release (v.2.8.1 Beta 1) was released to Beta testing
in January 1996, superseding the previous 2.8.0 Beta series. It fixes a
number of portability issues, known bugs and documentation errors. It also
provides scope for backwards compatibility with revisions to the FSP
protocol which are scheduled for FSP 2.9.0 and beyond.

The next scheduled release is v.2.9.0. This is intended to act as a
migratory step to 3.0. Some alternations will be made to the client and
server functionality in 2.9.0, but this release is mainly intended to
greatly simplify and tidy the code base, bringing it up to date with ANSI
C/C++ and the POSIX standards. This release is also intended to provide a
foundation for much easier porting of the software between platforms,
including Win32/Winsock 2.0 support scheduled for inclusion in 3.0.

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Section 3: Technical Issues

Q.3.1 What are the main differences between FSP and FTP? How does FSP work?

From the user's point of view, the differences are not that great, except
that some of the more annoying features of FTP are gone. Here are the main
differences.

* The protocol can stand things going down: if the server or the network
falls over in the middle of a transfer, you can just wait until it
comes back up. You don't have to reconnect, and even better, if the
server went down 90% through grabbing a file, you can continue from
where you left off.

* The protocol doesn't need a username or password. You just throw
packets at the server. You don't have to identify yourself (though
you're not completely anonymous -- see below).

* It's harder to kill off a site with an FSP server than with an FTP
server. The FSP daemon is designed to be as lightweight as possible:
it doesn't fork off any sub-processes, and it takes steps to limit the
amount of traffic it handles.

* The user interface is completely different. The interface that comes
with the package consists of eleven commands that you can call from
the shell. In effect, your shell is providing all the nice functions
like command line editing. This makes the interface much more
versatile than FTP's. (See below for how to get an FTP-like interface,
though).

* FSP is a bit slower than FTP. This is a feature, not a bug. The point
is to keep the communication lightweight, and not to flood the net.

From the programmer's point of view, fsp is a complete rewrite.

* Instead of TCP sockets, it uses datagrams to communicate, so that the
connection doesn't break on a flaky line.

* FTP works by opening a port, and then asking the server to send a file
to it. FSP uses the same port all the time for communication, and asks
for segments of a file. So you can start off a transfer half way
through a file, if you really want to.

* The server tries to make sure you don't ask for packets too quickly.
Each packet it sends out has a random identification number, which the
client must return on the next request. (If the client loses the
number, it must wait a few seconds before the server accepts another
packet from it). Therefore, the client has to wait for an answer to
each request before it sends out the next one.

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Q.3.2 How secure/anonymous is FSP?

By default, the FSP daemon keeps logs of transactions, along with their
site names. An FSP administrator could use this to find out who you are,
with a reasonable degree of certainty.

In short, FSP gives you no more privacy than anonymous FTP. Anyone who
tells you different has a less devious mind than most FSP admins I know.

Why not make FSP more anonymous? Well, it's impossible to make a protocol
with complete anonymity, since at some point, the remote site will have to
send a file back to you, and it needs at least an address to send it to.

If you really need privacy, you can encrypt any files you make available,
and only give out the decryption password to a select few. But of course,
you have to trust them to keep the password safe.

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Q.3.3 Why not add passwords to FSP?

Thanks to Joseph Traub for the material for this section)

* They don't add much security. If you use one password for the whole
site, then you might just as well set up the site and only tell a few
people its port number. That's no more or less secure than using a
password. Besides, it's easier just to set up the server only to
respond to certain hosts.

* Any other password system is likely to be a big loss on efficiency,
since you'll have to check every single packet.

* The main use of server passwords appears to be so that people can move
pirated software around, and the authors don't want to add code to
support that.

* This capability does NOT belong in FSP because it gets away from the
concept of lightweight simple file transfers.

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Q.3.4 So what *does* FSP stand for?

As of 12th August 1993, FSP stands for `File Service Protocol'. Thanks to
Michael Grubb (m...@ac.duke.edu) for the words, and Wen-King for the
initials.

Other suggestions were:

* File Slurping Protocol
* Flaky Stream Protocol
* FTP's Sexier Partner

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Section 4: Who's Who?

Q.4.1 Who writes and maintains FSP software?

Unix Versions:
The current maintainer (as of March 1994) is Andy Doherty
(A.J.D...@reading.ac.uk), who also maintains the alt.comp.fsp FAQ
and wrote and maintains FSPtool an X-Windows FSP client.

The previous maintainers were Phil Richards (p...@sst.icl.co.uk) and
Pete Bevin (pe...@bestiary.demon.co.uk) from July 1993 to March 1994.
Phil is also the maintainer of fspclient, an FTP-like interface for
FSP.

Joseph Traub (jtr...@dragoncat.net) was maintainer from Dec 1992 to
July 1993 (versions 2.6.5 to 2.7.1).

Wen-King Su (wen-...@cs.caltech.edu) wrote the original Unix version
(versions 1.0 to 2.6.4).

Windows-95 / Windows-NT:
Garrick Lau (gl...@husc.harvard.edu) wrote and maintains a Windows-95/
Windows-NT server.

VMS:
Sven Pechler (S.A.P...@bdk.tue.nl) wrote and maintains a VMS
version.

OS/2:
OS/2 is handled by Larkin Lowrey (llo...@ucsd.edu).

MS-DOS:
Lindsey Smith, of the MS-DOS rewrite is lsm...@symantec.com

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Q.4.2 Who writes and maintains FSP Client Software?

Jim Browne (jbr...@jbrowne.com) and Modris Berzonis (im...@mii.lu.lv) are
both writing (soon to be released?) Macintosh clients. See Section 2.2.3.

Andy Doherty (A.J.D...@rdg.ac.uk) wrote and maintains 'FSPtool' an
X-Windows based Unix client. Also the FSP and alt.comp.fsp FAQ maintainer.

Ian Heath (i...@ecs.soton.ac.uk) wrote 'winfsp' an MS-Windows based client.

Nicolai Langfeldt's (ja...@ifi.uio.no) wrote and maintains 'fspcli' a Perl
based client.

Ove Ruben R Olsen (Ru...@uib.no) wrote and maintains 'fspsh', another Perl
based client.

Phil Richards' (p...@sst.icl.co.uk) wrote and maintains 'fspclient'.

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Q.4.3 Who helped put this FAQ together?

The following people have contributed to the FAQ. Thanks very much to all
of them.

* Pete Bevin (pe...@bestiary.demon.co.uk)
* Tony Brannigan (tbr...@ox.ac.uk)
* Jim Browne (jbr...@jbrowne.com)
* Nello Castiglione (ani...@cybernet.it)
* Dan Charrois (cha...@ee.ualberta.ca)
* Wilson Cheung (wch...@netcom.com)
* Maurizio Codogno (m...@beatles.cselt.stet.it)
* David DeSimone (f...@netcom.com)
* Ian Dickinson (va...@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk)
* Andy Doherty (A.J.D...@reading.ac.uk)
* Ian Heath (i...@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
* Jan Nicolai Langfeldt (ja...@ifi.uio.no)
* Garrick V. Lau (gl...@husc.harvard.edu)
* Larkin Lowrey (llo...@ucsd.edu)
* Ove Ruben R Olsen (bu...@uib.no)
* Jerome Pier (j...@edu.unl.unlinfo)
* Lutz Prechelt (prec...@ira.uka.de)
* Phil Richards (p...@sst.icl.co.uk)
* Lindsey Smith (lsm...@symantec.com)
* Wen-King Su (wen-...@cs.caltech.edu)
* Roy Svendsen (r.e.sv...@jus.uio.no)
* Joseph Traub (jtr...@dragoncat.net)

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Section 5: Site Information

Q.5.1 What FSPable sites exist ?

The following is a small list of the some sites which are available through
the FSP protocol. This list should be reasonably up to date but comes with
no warranty. It is in the unofficial "taxus" format. ftp.germany.eu.net is
the official home for FSP, the FSP software distributions and other related
packages can be found there.

genie.lut.ac.uk 21 genie / # small UK site
ftp.germany.eu.net 2001 germany / # big German archive (FSP)
fsp.luth.se 6969 luth / # Top of Europe
src.doc.ic.ac.uk 21 src / # SUNsite Northern Europe
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl 21 terra / # big Netherlands site
ftp.wustl.edu 21 wu / # lots of mirrors ...

For more site information sources see Q.2.3

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Section 6: FAQ Translations

At least one non-english language translation of the FAQ is now available,
so this section details it, and any others that may come along over time.

Bear in mind that changes to the main FAQ may take a while to filter down
through translations. Keep an eye on the date at the top of this copy and
see if it matches up to the FAQ source at
http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/faq/faq.htm.

6.1. Italian

Nello Castiglione (ani...@cybernet.it) has translated the FAQ into Italian,
many thanks to him for the time and effort spent. This translation is
available from:

* http://www.cybernet.it/fsp/faq.html

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