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THIS IS VERY SPECIAL AMINET UPLOAD SINCE SOME FILES DISAPPEARED FROM BTTR
AFTER THE DISK ARRAY CRASH...
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axel-2.3
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---

Axel tries to accelerate downloads by using multiple connections (possibly
to multiple servers) for one download. 

Wilmer van der Gaast. <wilmer@gaast.net>
http://axel.alioth.debian.org/

---

NOTES:

[*]
Requires 68020+(no FPU), OS 2.04+, 256+ KiB of free memory, ixemul 48+,
ixnet 48+, bsdsocket 3+

[*]
Proggy has been freed of 64 bit file offsets/types to provide more security
to the ancient Amiga filesystem API, so download can be 2 GiB max.

[*]
There is new command line option,

   --sigticker-delay=x     -D x    Sig. t. delay(def:1, range:0-4)

As 'axel' uses 'usleep()' with small values in the threads for throttling,
which is evil on the Amiga and multiple calls to this function stop whole
prog, we must activate signal ticker process that will be constantly sending
sort of "knock knock" to the 'pth' scheduler to wake it up. Interval of 1
second is set on by default and yet it is active only when '-s x' is being
requested and if it is greater than 0!

[*]
Hopefully i have fixed a prob that prevented certain servers from being 
handled by this prog in multithreaded mode(accelerated). Some servers know
that in 'HTTP 1.0' resuming should not be available and so they follow that
rule and behave like no request of range was sent.

[*]
Default setup of 4 threads per file gives imo best results, but this may
vary from cpu to cpu.

[*]
Default config will be read from 'usr:local/etc/'(/usr/local/etc), but it
is not necessary to have that file in there.

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megacz@usa.com

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[generic]                 7007   17987  39.0% -lh5- 6294 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/COPYING
[generic]                  842    1520  55.4% -lh5- 27d6 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/CREDITS
[generic]                 1048    2039  51.4% -lh5- 9f10 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/README
[generic]                  894    1522  58.7% -lh5- 748c Feb 22  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/README.amiga
[generic]                 2162    4656  46.4% -lh5- 2d05 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/axel.1
[generic]                 5367   18562  28.9% -lh5- c450 Feb 16  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/axel.c
[generic]                 1269    3060  41.5% -lh5- 1b87 Feb 22  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/axel.h
[generic]                  811    1542  52.6% -lh5- ad3d Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/axel.spec
[generic]                 2199    4138  53.1% -lh5- 4ee3 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/axel_zh_CN.1
[generic]                 2075    5767  36.0% -lh5- 628e Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/conf.c
[generic]                  823    1764  46.7% -lh5- 55fd Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/conf.h
[generic]                  141     206  68.4% -lh5- 9971 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/config.h
[generic]                 1764    5749  30.7% -lh5- 7b0d Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/configure
[generic]                 2683    8957  30.0% -lh5- 689f Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/conn.c
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[generic]                  785    2208  35.6% -lh5- 5513 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/default
[generic]                 2869    8609  33.3% -lh5- 20cd Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/ftp.c
[generic]                  784    1737  45.1% -lh5- a5f4 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/ftp.h
[generic]                 1496    2871  52.1% -lh5- a55c Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/gui/kapt/axel-kapt
[generic]                  479     815  58.8% -lh5- ca09 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/gui/kapt/axel-kapt.1
[generic]                  191     253  75.5% -lh5- e334 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/gui/kapt/axel-kapt.desktop
[generic]                  127     216  58.8% -lh5- 4dfc Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/gui/kapt/Makefile
[generic]                 2330    6418  36.3% -lh5- d46f Jan 13  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/http.c
[generic]                  871    2023  43.1% -lh5- 106a Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/http.h
[generic]                 1008    2338  43.1% -lh5- 8780 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/Makefile
[generic]                  278     421  66.0% -lh5- 222f Feb 22  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/Makefile.settings
[generic]                 2343    7498  31.2% -lh5- e4de Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/nl.po
[generic]                 2931    9385  31.2% -lh5- 28c5 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/ru.po
[generic]                 2378    7033  33.8% -lh5- 880a Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/search.c
[generic]                  706    1470  48.0% -lh5- a9c2 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/search.h
[generic]                 1269    2919  43.5% -lh5- 0a89 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/tcp.c
[generic]                  604    1257  48.1% -lh5- a2a4 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/tcp.h
[generic]                 4829   15219  31.7% -lh5- 1cfa Feb 22  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/text.c
[generic]                 2796    7738  36.1% -lh5- f642 Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/src/zh_cn.po
[generic]                50542  101632  49.7% -lh5- dedf Sep 22  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/usr/local/bin/axel
[generic]                 1622    3770  43.0% -lh5- 35cd Jan 12  2009 axel-2.3-bin-m68k/usr/local/etc/axelrc
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