The table below shows the Yence timeline of events in table format. The table consists the four Wh's: When, Who, What and Why.
When | Who | What | Why |
April. 29 2002 | mgl | Converted and published the 1.3 Draft version of the yEncode protocol. Here's the shortcut . | |
April. 27 2002 | mgl | Published the initial website including some Java source files. Also a notification email was send to Juergen Helbing, the author of yEncode, and Alex Rass to notify them of Yence's existence. | |
April. 24 2002 | mgl |
Once again browsing the alt.binaries.tori-amos
news group. Nothing unusual, except that I came across some
interesting binary files that my favorite news browser (Gnus, an emacs Lisp package)
was unable to extract. Hmmm, why is that yEnc protocol not supported?
What followed was a Google search
and a quick look at the protocol description. Wauw! Good
stuff! I want that tool. Let's search for the Java API!
Oops, there seems to be no such API, except a Java
Decoder written by Alex Rass. Playing
around with Alex's Java code, I came to the conclusion I had two
options: modify Alex's code or start a new open source
project with a scope slighty bigger that just decoding yEnc
encoded binaries.
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Seemed a good thing to do! |
Marcel Schepers
$Date: 2002/05/24 21:16:11 $, $Revision: 1.2 $