NAME

       gnome-btdownload - download files using a scatter-gather network

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-btdownload [ option ... ] URL
       gnome-btdownload [ option ... ] filename

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-btdownload  is  a  program  to  allow  a  user to download files using bittorrent, a scatter-gather
       network.

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 reponse 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 received 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

       bittorrent-downloader(1), bttrack(1), btmakemetafile(1), btlaunchmany(1).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was originally written by Michael Janssen <jamuraa@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux
       system's   bittorrent-downloader(1)   and   was   modified   for   gnome-btdownload(1)   by   Paul  Varga
       <null_and_void@users.sourceforge.net> (but may be used by others).

                                                   Sep 24 2003                               GNOME-BTDOWNLOAD(1)