# Jungle Monkey

###### Version 0.1

#### David Helder

Copyright © 1999, 2000 by The Regents of the University of Michigan

Abstract
This manual documents Jungle Monkey, a distributed file sharing program. It includes an overview of Jungle Monkey, an installation guide, a QuickStart, Frequently Asked Questions, a list of known bugs, a release history, mailing list information, license information, and a list of authors.

# Introduction

Jungle Monkey (JM) is a distributed file sharing program. You join channels where people offer files for download. You can offer your own files and create your own channels as well. Once you download a file, others can connect to you to get that file. You can also search for files.

Jungle Monkey is part of a research project at the EECS Department of the University of Michigan. The current incarnation of Jungle Monkey began in the fall of 1999, but Jungle Monkey has existed in some form since the summer of 1998. We're looking at End-to-End Multicast and other multicast issues. See the FAQ for more information.

Features:

- Create your own file-sharing channels and offer files for download

- Browse other peoples channels and download their files

- Search for files

- Efficiently uses bandwidth by finding the closest client with the file you want

JM is for Unix and requires GTK/GLIB 1.2, GNet 1.0, and some other libraries. If you have Gnome, you can enable basic Gnome support. (See Installation Guide for more Information)

| JUNGLE MONKEY IS BETA SOFTWARE. It is fairly stable and usable, but may still have lingering bugs. Development will continue in the 0.1.X series that may break backward compatabilty with older Jungle Monkey clients. We hope for a stable release (0.6?) in early Summer.

Comments, questions, and bug reports should be sent to `<jm@eecs.umich.edu>`. Please read the FAQ before asking questions.

The Jungle Monkey homepage is at: http://www.junglemonkey.net

Debian and Red Hat packages are available on the homepage.

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