netrw

netrw packages (GNU GPL license)

GIT repository with sources for netrw can be found at: http://gitorious.org/netrw

• netrw-1.3.2.tar.bz2 2006-08-15 (116KiB, SHA1, sig)
  binary packages:
  • Linux static i386: netrw-x86-1.3.2.tar.bz2 (41KiB, SHA1, sig)
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP: netrw-win-1.3.2.zip (721KiB, SHA1, sig)
  
  
• netrw-1.3.1.tar.bz2 2006-03-03 (116KiB, SHA1, sig)
  binary packages:
  • Linux static i386: netrw-x86-1.3.1.tar.bz2 (41KiB, SHA1, sig)
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP: netrw-win-1.3.1.zip (605KiB, SHA1, sig)
  
  
• netrw-1.3.tar.bz2 2006-02-06 (116KiB, SHA1, sig)
  binary packages:
  • Linux static i386: netrw-x86-1.3.tar.bz2 (41KiB, SHA1, sig)
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP: netrw-win-1.3.zip (602KiB, SHA1, sig)
  
  
• netrw-1.2.tar.bz2 2004-07-19 (106KiB, MD5, sig)
  binary packages:
  • Linux static i386: netrw-x86-1.2.tar.bz2 (284KiB, MD5, sig)
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP: netrw-win-1.2.zip (486KiB, MD5, sig)
  
  
• netrw-1.1.tar.bz2 2003-04-23 (102KiB, MD5, sig)
  binary packages:
  • Linux static i686: netrw-bin-1.1.tar.bz2 (152KiB, MD5, sig)
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP: netrw-win-1.1.zip (484KiB, MD5, sig)
  
  
• netrw-1.0.1.tar.bz2 2002-12-02 (101KiB, MD5, sig)
  binary packages:
  • Linux static i686: netrw-bin-1.0.1.tar.bz2 (234KiB, MD5, sig)
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP: netrw-win-1.0.1.zip (502KiB, MD5, sig)
  
  
• netrw-1.0.tar.bz2 2002-11-10 (101KiB, MD5, sig)
• netrw-0.99.4.tar.bz2 2002-10-14 (101KiB, MD5, sig)
• netrw-0.99.3.tar.bz2 2002-10-14 (100KiB, MD5, sig)
• netrw-0.99.2.tar.bz2 2002-10-14 (94KiB, MD5, sig)
• netrw-0.99.1.tar.bz2 2002-10-13 (94KiB, MD5, sig)
• netrw-0.10.tar.bz2 2002-08-05 (25KiB, MD5, sig)
• netrw-0.9.tar.bz2 2002-08-04 (24KiB, MD5, sig)
• netrw-0.8.tar.bz2 2002-08-04 (18KiB, MD5, sig)
• netrw-0.7.tar.bz2 2002-07-22 (4KiB, MD5, sig)
• netrw-0.6.tar.bz2 2002-07-22 (4KiB, MD5, sig)
• netrw-0.5.tar.bz2 2002-07-10 (3KiB, MD5, sig)
• netrw-0.4.tar.bz2 2002-06-15 (3KiB, MD5, sig)
• netrw-0.3.tar.bz2 2002-06-15 (3KiB, MD5, sig)

testing platforms

In the following table you can find a list of platforms used for testing portability of the last release of this package. Platforms which are no longer used for testing are marked as such in "Notes" column of the table.

netrw release history

• 1.3.2
  
  • fixed SIGSEGV when control connection is closed during initialization
• 1.3.1
  
  • new examples using -i and -o options
  • fixed a bug causing netread to sometimes end up in an endless loop after receiving all data
• 1.3
  
  • prefer SHA-256 and SHA-1 algorithms to MD5
  • keep-alive packets for control connection to prevent stupid firewall/NAT machines from shutting down control connection of long data transfers
  • synchronous output for netread (option -s)
  • netwrite accepts -i <file> option for reading data from a file
  • netread accepts -o <file> option for writing data to a file
  • average speed for current line is printed at the end of each progress line instead of globally average speed
  • support for linking against diet libc including its MD5 implementation (--enable-diet configure option)
  • MacOS X and x86_64 testing platform
  • minor cosmetic changes
• 1.2
  
  • README file
  • interoperability with the TCP/IP swiss army knife (netcat, nc)
  • better summary
  • speed can be printed in bits per second (option -b)
  • support for TiB, PiB, EiB ;)
  • better progress and speed printing
  • checksum help message looked like "none" is the default algorithm
  • FreeBSD 5.2 testing platform
  • small corrections in usage and version printing
• 1.1
  
  • verbose version information using -vV option
  • buggy built-in MD5 implementation was replaced by implementation from mhash library
  • --enable-static option for configure
  • removed one second delay before control socket creation
  • show transfer speed at the end of each progress line
  • minimum time is one second for speed computation
  • show checksum library within version information
  • link against libcrypto instead of libssl
  • use binary prefixes instead of decimal ones (GB => GiB) see http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
  • fixed DNS resolver error messages
• 1.0.1
  
  • successfully compiles on Windows (using cygwin of course ;o)
  • fixed a bug causing SIGSEGV when the control connection cannot be created
• 1.0
  
  • better messages concerning selected checksum algorithm
  • transmission checksum is used by default
  • -C <alg> option for checksum algorithm selection
  • better portability (OSF and OpenBSD)
• 0.99.4
  
  • portability issues (IRIX and Solaris)
• 0.99.3
  
  • bad OpenSSL detection on some systems was fixed
  • missing files getopt1.c and md5.c added
• 0.99.2
  
  • TIGER and GOST mhash algorithms
  • bugfix in OpenSSL and mhash support code
• 0.99.1
  
  • support for checksum algorithms from OpenSSL and mhash
  • automake + autoconf build system
  • even better version info printing
  • port reusability
• 0.10
  
  • new version info and some other minor improvements
  • some minor bugs were fixed
• 0.9
  
  • released under GNU GPL
• 0.8
  
  • MD5 checksum validation
  • mostly rewritten
• 0.7
  
  • yet another minor bugfix
• 0.6
  
  • code cleanup
  • data transfer progress indicator
• 0.5
  
  • another minor cosmetic bugfix
• 0.4
  
  • minor cosmetic bugfix release
• 0.3
  
  • the first public release of netrw tools