Documentation --- History

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. Seemed a good thing to do!

Marcel Schepers
$Date: 2002/05/24 21:16:11 $, $Revision: 1.2 $