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- eMule Copyright (C)2002-2004 Merkur (merkur-@users.sourceforge.net)
-
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
- the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
- Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
- version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
- ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
- FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
- details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
- this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass
- Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- Welcome to eMule, a filesharing client based on the eDonkey2000(C) network.
-
-
- Visit us at
- http://www.emule-project.net
- and
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule
- or
- the IRC chatroom, #emule on irc.emule-project.net
-
-
-
- Please remember that this is an early version, not all features are
- implemented yet, and not everything might work as expected.
-
- Visit our forum for bugreports, feature requests, development or general
- dicussion.
-
-
- If you have questions or serious problems, please read the FAQ first :) It can
- be found at www.emule-project.net. A small collection of questions is also
- discussed later in this document.
-
-
- If you didn't find an answer, SEARCH the forum for a topic related to your
- problem, DO NOT open a new topic at once, most likely someone else had the
- same problem before.
-
- The official Forum is also at http://www.emule-project.net Please use only
- English there, except for the language-specific sections. (PLEASE do not
- report bugs that are already posted by someone else, and keep the "Bug
- Reports", "Feature Requests" and "Development" sections clean and shiny)
-
-
- Would you like to donate to the eMule project? A PayPal link can be found on
- the portal page (www.emule-project.net) Thanks ;)
-
-
-
-
- INSTALLATION:
- -------------
-
- -Unzip eMule to a directory of your choice, or start the installer if you
- downloaded the .exe installer version.
-
- -You can move your "Temp" and "Incoming" folders from eDonkey (or a previous
- version of eMule) to the new directory now, in order to continue your partial
- downloads. If you don't want to move your folders, you can set the "temp" and
- "incoming" path in the eMule preferences and restart it to get the same
- result.
-
- -Updating from an earlier version of eMule: The best way to do this is simply
- to download the .zip file (not the installer), and unzip the new emule.exe to
- your old emule directory, overwriting the previous one.
-
-
-
- CONFIGURATION:
- --------------
-
- -Go to the "Preferences" tab
-
- -Enter a nice nickname ;)
-
- -Enter the "Download Capacity" and "Upload Capacity" according to your
- internet connection. All values in eMule are kiloBytes (KB), your Internet
- Service Provider's (ISP) numbers are most likely kiloBits (kB). 8 Bits make up
- 1 Byte, so when your Internet Connection is 768kB Downstrean and 128kB
- Upstrean (like German Telekom DSL), your correct values are:
-
- Downstrean: 768kB / 8 = 96KB, you enter 96 as "Download Capacity"
- Upstream: 128kB / 8 = 16 KB, you enter 16 as "Upload Capacity"
-
- The "capacity" values are used for the statistics display only. Nevertheless,
- you need to know them to determine the following down/upload limits:
-
-
- -Enter "Download Limit" and "Upload Limit" (IMPORTANT!)
-
- Download Limit: leave this at 0 (should eMule become too fast and you are
- unable to surf the Internet or whatever, reduce it to 80-90% of "Download
- Capacity")
-
- Upload Limit: set this to ~80% of your "Upload Capacity" (so when your Upload
- Capacity is 16, set Upload Limit to 12 or 13)
-
- Setting Upload Limit to a value < 10 will automatically reduce your Download
- Limit, so upload as fast as you can.
-
-
- NOTE: 56k Modem users: eMule only accepts integral values for these settings
- at the moment, you can't enter 2.6 or whatever your sweet-spot setting is,
- yet. Sorry :) Maybe later..
-
-
- -"Maximum Connections": depends on your operating system. As a general rule...
-
- -Windows 98/ME (and 56k Modem/ISDN) users enter 50 here
- -Windows 2000/XP users should set this according to their
- Internet Connection. 250 is a good value for 128k upstream connection,
- for example. DO NOT set this too high. It will kill your upload and with
- that, your download.
-
- -"Maximum Sources per File": decide for yourself how many you want :) when you
- set this too high, your computer might slow down drastically or even crash.
- 500-1000 are good values for people with DSL/cable connection.
-
- -Choose the directories you want to share with other users. DO NOT SHARE YOUR
- COMPLETE HARDDISK! Put the stuff you want to share in a seperate Folder. If
- you share more than ~200 files, you should reconsider that...
-
- -The other options are pretty self-explaining. If you dunno what it does,
- don't touch it.
-
-
-
- FAQ: (for more, see http://www.emule-project.net/faq/ )
- ----
-
- --"Will I lose my credits when switching to a new version of eMule?"
-
- Not when move your old preferences.dat (your user ID) and clients.met (other
- people's credits) files to the directory you installed the new version in.
- The best way to update is just to replace your old emule.exe with the new one
- from the .zip download.
-
-
-
- --"Why is eMule so slow? My brother/friend/whatever is downloading at 100K constantly"
-
- When you did setup eMule properly, it's all about the availibility of the
- files you are downloading, a bit of luck and a lot of patience ;)
-
-
-
- --"Where can I get a new serverlist?"
-
- There are several lists availible. Some that I know of are:
- -http://www.thedonkeynetwork.com
- -http://ed2k.2x4u.de
- Note that those sites are not related to the eMule project, we are not
- responsible for their content.
-
-
-
- --"What is the adresses.dat file for?"
-
- You can enter a serverlist URL in that file. eMule will then get the
- serverlist from that URL at startup (when the option "Auto-update serverlist
- at startup" is activated)
-
-
-
- --"What is the staticservers.dat file good for?"
-
- You can enter your favorite servers here to have them permanently in your
- serverlist with high priority. You can enter the static IP of the server, or
- an adress like goodserver.dyndns.net. You can also add static servers to this
- file via the server tab in eMule (right-click -> add to static serverlist)
-
-
- --"Why do I always have a low ID (means: firewalled) ??? What can I do against that?"
-
- Look here: http://www.emule-project.net/faq/ports.htm
-
-
-
- --"How do I know whether my ID is high or low?"
-
- Look at the arrow in the bottom right corner, next to the server name you are
- connected to. When it's green, your ID is high. When it's orange, your ID is
- low.
-
-
-
- --"What does high and low ID mean anyway?"
-
- When your ID is high (green arrow), everything is fine :) When it's low
- (orange arrow), you are behind a firewall or router, and other clients can't
- connect to you directly (which is a bad thing). Plz read the FAQ or search
- the forums on how to configure your firewall/router for eMule.
-
- NOTE: you can also get a low ID when the server you connected to is too busy
- to answer properly, or simply badly configured. When you are sure your
- settings are ok and you SHOULD have a high ID, connect to antoher server.
-
-
-
- --"What is the difference between up/down CAPACITY and LIMIT?"
-
- The CAPACITY is used only by the statistcs tab to determine the vertical
- limits of the diagram. The LIMITS set the actual network traffic limits (see
- configuration notes).
-
-
-
- --"I'd like to search for specific file types, what filter stands for which files?"
-
- File Type Extensions found
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Audio .mp3 .mp2 .mpc .wav .ogg .aac .mp4 .ape .au .wma .flac
- Video .avi .mpg .mpeg .ram .rm .vob .divx .mov .ogm .vivo
- Program .exe .com
- Archive .zip .rar .ace
- CD-Image .bin .cue .iso .nrg .ccd .sub .img .bwt .bwi .bwa .bws .mdf .mds
- Picture .jpg .jpeg .bmp .gif .tif .png
-
-
-
- --"What are all those fancy colors in the download progress bar about?"
-
- Each download in the the Transfer tab has a coloured bar to show current file
- availability and progress.
-
- -Black shows the parts of the file you already have
- -Red indicates a part missing in all known sources
- -Different shades of blue represent the availability of this part in the
- sources. The darker the blue is the higher the availability
- -Yellow denotes a part being downloaded
- -The green bar on top shows the total download progress of this file
-
- If you expand the download you see its sources with the corresponding bar.
- Here the colours have a slightly different meaning:
-
- -Black shows parts you are still missing
- -Silver stands for parts this source is also missing
- -Green indicates parts you already have
- -Yellow denotes a part being uploaded to you
-
- Learning how the progress bar works will greatly help your understanding of
- the eDonkey2000 network.
-
-
-
- --"What do the "QR: xxxx" numbers mean that I see when I look at my sources?"
-
- QR stands for "Queue Rank" and it is your current position in this source's
- queue.
-
- Obviously, a lower value is better :) If the source is an eMule client and
- there is no QR number, it's likely that it's queue is full and cannot accept
- more clients.
-
-
-
-
- COMPILING THE SOURCECODE:
- -------------------------
-
- The sourcecode of eMule is availible as seperate download at:
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule
- You need Microsoft(C) Visual C++ .NET 2002 to compile eMule.
-
- -Unzip the sources (with subdirs) into a new folder
-
- Since eMule v0.29b the separate download and compilation of additional
- libraries is required. These libs are 3rd party and therefore - as usual - not
- within our distribution. You need the following libs:
-
- 1. Crypto++ v5.1
- http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai/cryptlib.html
-
- 2. zlib v1.2.1
- http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
-
- 3. id3lib v3.8.3
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/id3lib/
-
- 4. (for MobileMule only!)
- DirectX SDK
- pnglib: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
-
- 5. ResizableLib 1.3
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/resizablelib/
-
- Download and save their sourcecode one level above the eMule source code
- folder and compile them (check the eMule-project file to learn about the
- required foldernames, or adapt them to your needs!).
-
-
- -Open the emule.sln Visual Studio Solution
-
- -If you get an error message like "wrong version of Visual C++", you have to
- open emule.sln and emule.vcroj with an editor and change some values:
-
- emule.sln: "...Format Version 8.00" to 7.00 if you use Microsoft(C) Visual C++ .NET 2002
- emule.vcproj: Version="7.10" to 7.00 if you use Microsoft(C) Visual C++ .NET 2002
-
- -Select "release" or "debug" build in the solution configuration manager
- -Build the solution. That's it :)
- -If the compile was successful, the emule.exe is either in the \Debug or
- \Release directory
- -When you build a debug dump version, you need the latest dbghelp.dll from
- Microsoft to run the app
-
- -IMPORTANT:
-
- If you make modifications to eMule and you distribute the compiled version of
- your build, be sure to obey the GPL license. You have to include the
- sourcecode, or make it availible for download together with the binary
- version.
-
-
-
-
- MISC. STUFF:
- ------------
-
- The eMule staff would like to thank the following (no particular order)
-
- -Jed "swamp" McCaleb and MetaMachine for bringing the eDonkey network to life
- -DrSiRiUs for the awesome artwork (splashscreen and icons)
- -OCBmaurice & Stillman for the serverlists and more (www.thedonkeynetwork.com)
-
- -many people who sent us code parts, useful bug reports and useful suggestions :)
-
-
-
-
- STAFF:
- ------
-
- Who are the guys that sacrifice so much time to bring you this wonderful
- program?
-
- -John aka. Unknown1 - Developer
- -Ornis - Developer
- -bluecow - Developer
- -zz - Developer
- -Monk - Testers
-
- -Merkur (merkur-@users.sourceforge.net) - Master of the Mule - retired, we miss you :)
- -Tecxx - Developer (retired)
- -Pach2 - Developer (retired)
- -Juanjo - Developer (retired)
- -Dirus - Developer (retired)
- -Barry - Developer (retired)
- -Mr. Ozon, Sony, Myxin - Tester (retired)
-
-
-
- LEGAL:
- ------
-
- eMule Copyright (C)2002-2004 Merkur (merkur-@users.sourceforge.net)
-
- eDonkey2000 (C)Jed McCaleb, MetaMachine (www.eDonkey2000.com)
-
- Windows(TM), Windows 95(TM), Windows 98(TM), Windows ME(TM), Windows NT(TM),
- Windows 2000(TM) and Windows XP(TM) are Copyright (C)Microsoft Corporation.
- All rights reserved.
-
-
- Goodbye and happy sharing ;)
-