... startfiles ....

[indiana_jones]

soon after i made my posting about "startfiles" to the morpheus
forum , it got nuked and everthing was lost.

since I think that these startfiles are a simple but powerful way to
supply p2p sharing in favour of the user, I don't want it to be forgotten.
(The idea is not new at all, see http://www.museekster.com/index2.html)

If dont think, that this forum is the right place for it, please tell me.
Its a rather specific matter for fasttrack clients as Morpheus and Kazaa.

Startfiles are simply ".dat" files, as they are used by the clients to store
there search information.

Whats new now:
Since i don't like executable binaries, I wrote a perl script to create startfiles out
of the ".dbb" files. (1024k for now). It actually creates a .vbs script, which can be
reviewed and downloaded and which creates local .dat files.

Since the the script and dat files contain checksums and some file signatur they
offer some reliability that you get the correct file, which you do no have if you search
for it on the net. I will give some examples in a followup.

indy