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NAME

       bittorrent-downloader - download files using a scatter-gather network

SYNOPSIS

       btdownloadheadless [ option ... ] URL
       btdownloadheadless [ option ... ] filename
       btdownloadcurses [ option ... ] URL
       btdownloadcurses [ option ... ] filename
       btdownloadgui [ option ... ] URL
       btdownloadgui [ option ... ] filename

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual page documents briefly the btdownloadheadless, btdownloadcurses, and btdownloadgui commands.
       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program  does  not  have  a
       manual page.

       These  are  all  programs  that allow a user to download files using bittorrent, a peer to peer, scatter-
       gather network protocol.  They all have the same options.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with  long  options  starting  with  two  dashes
       (`-').  A summary of options is included below.

       --responsefile filename
              treat  filename  as  a  file  which  the server response was stored in. If this option is used, no
              filename or URL should be present on the command line.

       --url url
              retrieve the torrent info file from url.  If this option is used, no filename  or  URL  should  be
              present on the command line.

       -i ip | --ip ip
              report ip as your IP to the tracker

       --bind ip
              bind to ip instead of the default

       --minport portnum
              set portnum as the minimum port to listen on, counts up if unavailable (default 6881)

       --maxport portnum
              set portnum as the maximum port to listen on (default 6889)

       --saveas filename
              store the downloaded file to filename, instead of querying user (gui) or using the filename stored
              in the torrent info file

       --max_uploads num
              Only allow num uploads at once (default 4)

       --max_upload_rate kbytes
              maximum rate to upload at in kilobytes, 0 means no limit (default 0)

       --keepalive_interval secs
              pause secs seconds between sending keepalives (default 120.0)

       --download_slice_size bytes
              query for bytes bytes per request (default 32768)

       --request_backlog num
              keep num requests in a single pipe at once (default 5)

       --max_message_length bytes
              set bytes to the maximum length prefix encoding you'll accept over the wire -  larger  values  get
              the connection dropped (default 8388608)

       --timeout secs
              wait secs before closing sockets which nothing has been receieved on (default 300.0)

       --timeout_check_interval secs
              check whether connections have timed out every secs seconds (default 60.0)

       --max_slice_length bytes
              requests from peers larger than bytes bytes are ignored (default 131072)

       --max_rate_recalculate_interval secs
              connections that pause longer than secs seconds are given reduced rate (default 15.0)

       --max_rate_period secs
              set  secs  to  the  maximum  amount of time to guess the current rate estimate represents (default
              20.0)

       --upload_rate_fudge secs
              set the time equivalent of writing to kernel-level TCP buffer to secs (default 5.0)

       --display_interval secs
              update displayed information every secs seconds (default 0.1)

       --rerequest_interval secs
              request more peers every secs seconds (default 300)

       --min_peers num
              do not rerequest if we have num peers already (default 20)

       --http_timeout secs
              wait secs seconds before assuming a http connection has timed out (default 60)

       --snub_time secs
              wait secs seconds for data to come in over a  connection  before  assuming  it's  semi-permanently
              choked (default 30.0)

       --spew  1 | 0
              whether   to   display  diagnostic  info  to  stdout.   This  option  is  not  useful  when  using
              btdownloadcurses or btdownloadgui. (default 0)

       --max_initiate num
              stop initiating new connections when we have num peers (default 40)

       --check_hashes  1 | 0
              whether to check hashes on disk (defaults to 1)

       --report_hash_failures  1 | 0
              whether to report to the user that hash failuers occur (non-fatal, common error) (default 0)

       --rarest_first_priority_cutoff num
              the number of peers which need to have a piece before other partials  take  priority  over  rarest
              first (default 3)

SEE ALSO

       bttrack(1), btmakemetafile(1), btlaunchmany(1).

       More   information   on   the   BitTorrent   protocol   used  for  distributing  files  is  available  at
       http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/protocol.html

       You will also find a full description on the advantages of the protocol in the academic paper  Incentives
       Build Robustness in BitTorrent available at http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/bittorrentecon.pdf

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was  written by Michael Janssen <jamuraa@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system
       (but may be used by others).

                                                   Sep 24 2003                          BITTORRENT-DOWNLOADER(1)