NCurses Direct Connect
Ncdc is a modern and lightweight direct connect client with a friendly ncurses interface.
Get ncdc!
- Latest version
1.22.1 (File: ncdc-1.22.1.tar.gz
Size: 362.9 KiB (371.572 bytes)
PGP: ncdc-1.22.1.tar.gz.asc
MD5:70bce3788a394d7eb3ec7f7726e69660
SHA1:0acfc3898491042f89b17949ecee92229ac5ef36
SHA-256:d15fd378aa345f423e59a38691c668f69b516cd4b8afbbcdc446007740c3afadncdc-1.22.1.tar.gz - changes)Convenient static binaries for Linux: File: ncdc-linux-x86_64-1.22.1-1-g7b4bd.tar.gz
Size: 2.5 MiB (2.646.664 bytes)
PGP: ncdc-linux-x86_64-1.22.1-1-g7b4bd.tar.gz.asc
MD5:a401b960221bad7f7b344fe7fa6f024d
SHA1:a1465164cd9428701e175f4322cc06dca6f936af
SHA-256:9b75416b19c2528f3c31586067a54484b1caa1529d98ace9e9d229ffd8eef33ax86-64 - File: ncdc-linux-i486-1.22.1-1-g7b4bd.tar.gz
Size: 2.6 MiB (2.724.306 bytes)
PGP: ncdc-linux-i486-1.22.1-1-g7b4bd.tar.gz.asc
MD5:27a4b5c7a81d2a4ebd70d4557d58e878
SHA1:b4e6df5251aa9cd5749204427e87f7b70c97f6b4
SHA-256:5bdbb465332f87f463f70cf22be438d14a91abfb31d5b1088f69c628337f48c2i486 - File: ncdc-linux-arm-1.22.1-1-g7b4bd.tar.gz
Size: 2.3 MiB (2.439.017 bytes)
PGP: ncdc-linux-arm-1.22.1-1-g7b4bd.tar.gz.asc
MD5:2656a6b696ab3cabcb9829170b647bfd
SHA1:d913b854faaebde94908f1bb96c6c6e412c36926
SHA-256:2eeb4ccbb7b6f050c6ebb79528843f3fbc9967ea126194bb306ece266fd99a46ARM - File: ncdc-linux-aarch64-1.22.1-1-g7b4bd.tar.gz
Size: 2.5 MiB (2.636.211 bytes)
PGP: ncdc-linux-aarch64-1.22.1-1-g7b4bd.tar.gz.asc
MD5:9863faf8846e91b7f57d8fcf37af00a7
SHA1:b955fe09841cce21fc439d9790c4b3e5707acbd5
SHA-256:946a1db97b3bb816d72838ba644e1a71eae775fe0be99e58835d1fd2811572cbAArch64 . Check the installation instructions for more info.- Development version
- The latest development version is available from git and can be cloned using
git clone git://g.blicky.net/ncdc.git. The repository is available for online browsing. - Requirements
The following libraries are required: ncurses, zlib, bzip2, sqlite3, glib2 and gnutls.
Ncdc is entirely written in C and available under a liberal MIT license.
- Community
- Bug tracker - For bugs reports, feature requests and patches.
adcs://dc.blicky.net:2780/- For real-time chat.
- Packages and ports
Are available for the following systems: Arch Linux - Fedora - FreeBSD - Frugalware - Gentoo - GNU Guix - Homebrew - OpenSUSE - Source Mage
I have a few old packages on the Open Build Service, but these are unmaintained. The static binaries are preferred.
A convenient installer is available for Android.
Features
Common features all modern DC clients (should) have:
- Connecting to multiple hubs at the same time,
- Support for both ADC and NMDC protocols,
- Chatting and private messaging,
- Browsing the user list of a connected hub,
- Share management and file uploading,
- Connections and download queue management,
- File list browsing,
- TTH-checked, multi-source and segmented file downloading,
- Searching for files,
- Secure hub (adcs:// and nmdcs://) and client connections on both protocols,
- Bandwidth throttling,
- IPv6 support.
And special features not commonly found in other clients:
- Different connection settings for each hub,
- Encrypted UDP messages (ADC SUDP),
- Subdirectory refreshing,
- Nick notification and highlighting in chat windows,
- Trust on First Use for TLS-enabled hubs,
- A single listen port for both TLS and TCP connections,
- Efficient file uploads using sendfile(),
- Large file lists are opened in a background thread,
- Doesn't trash your OS file cache (with the flush_file_cache option enabled),
- (Relatively...) low memory usage.
What doesn't ncdc do?
Since the above list is getting larger and larger every time, it may be more interesting to list a few features that are (relatively) common in other DC clients, but which ncdc doesn't do. Yet.
- NAT Traversal,
- OP features (e.g. client detection, file list scanning and other useful stuff for OPs),
- SOCKS support.
Of course, there are many more features that could be implemented or improved. These will all be addressed in later versions (hopefully :).