CTorrent

[pVC]

You have to get .torrent file from somewhere for each thing you'd like to download. There are several web pages offering .torrent files etc.

Then just type in shell "ctorrent thefileyouhavegot.torrent" and it starts downloading the actual content.

Some torrent clients may have search function, but it actually searches from different web pages, which you can access directly too. So it's up to client what pages have been defined into it. Torrents are bit messy.. there isn't single repository like with Aminet which you referred. They are here and there and you have to find correct place to find files you like

And remember, you share everything you download at the same time. Unless you have disabled it or your torrent port isn't open to internet..  but then you might get pretty slow download speeds.

[pVC]

It doesn't matter which browser you use. IBrowse works just fine. Transferring is fine. Filename length depends of the filesystem used. Standard FFS has max name length around 30 chars, but you can always rename the .torrent file.

[pVC]

zyphoid: you can "end" it just like any other shell command.. with ctrl-c.

And it downloads files to current working directory. So cd where you want to get files and run ctorrent there.

[pVC]

zyphoid: I don't see what's so hard here I have tested ctorrent one or two times, but as my ISP restricts the torrent transfers it's pretty useless to try to use client without encrypted transfers (as my version of ctorrent is, I don't know if there's newer ones).

Here's an example:

New Shell process 11
Ram Disk:> Store2:torrents/
Store2:torrents> list
AmigaMusic.com - Best of Amiga Music Vol 2.torrent   21038 ----rwed Today     17:50:43
1 file - 21038 bytes used
Store2:torrents> ctorrent "AmigaMusic.com - Best of Amiga Music Vol 2.torrent"

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| 0,[0/937/0],0,0 | 0,0  E:0^C                                            
Store2:torrents> list
AmigaMusic.com - Best of Amiga Music Vol 2     Dir ----rwed Today     17:52:18
AmigaMusic.com - Best of Amiga Music Vol 2.torrent   21038 ----rwed Today     17:50:43
1 file - 1 directory - 21038 bytes used
Store2:torrents>

Nothing came to ram: and files were created to the (sub) dir I was CD'ed. ctorrent exe was in C:.

[pVC]

Torrents are downloaded in some size of pieces. And it probably downloads each piece in memory before writing it to HD. With slow transfer rate or at the beginning it may look like it won't write anything to HD.. you just haven't looked HD led long enough?

[pVC]

No, it's like any other normal Amiga command, which can be anywhere... just makes easier to have it in path (like in sys:c) so that you don't have to write it's path every time.

[pVC]

No, it's like any other normal Amiga command, which can be anywhere... just makes easier to have it in path (like in sys:c) so that you don't have to write it's path every time.