on 9/19/00 12:53 PM, Mark A. Kippert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Carracho is a beautiful thing. You don't have to wory about finding a Mac
>> server, though. Carracho is for the mac only!!! Let's keep it that way!
>>
>> -Colin
>>
>>> Carracho is kinda like Hotline. It is an entirely separate internet
>>> communication protocol. You download the Carracho application and you run
>>> THAT to access the site with the software you're looking for. (Mind you,
>>> I've not yet gotten around to trying it, I use Hotline when I'm looking to
>>> find things.) Also, as with anything else, I'm sure you need to designate
>>> Carracho as a helper application for those URLs.
>
> Since I don't know what Hotline is I guess I'm still in a fog about
> Carracho. If you don't use a browser to access these servers how do you? I
> generally don't feel like such a dummy about such things but I don't think
> this has been clearly explained yet.
>
OK, let's try this... Your browser is simply an application that
understands the HTTP protocol. It also can understand the FTP protocol for
transfering files, but many folks like to use a *separate* application
(Anarchie, Fetch, etc.) to handle FTP. Similarly, your e-mail program
(Outlook Express, Eudora, etc.) is a separate application that understands
whatever mail protocol your Internet provider has you using. Now, your web
browser is capable of dishing off the duties to these separate applications
(called helper applications). Hotline is simply a separate application for
communication over the Internet. It incorporates many of the aspects of the
old-style bulletin board systems that were popular before the Internet was
so widespread -- there are places where you can post messages, there's a
sort of instant message capability, and... most important for this
discussion, there's the ability to upload and download files to/from the
server. (It is possible to have a Hotline URL in a web page, in which case,
if you've got Internet Config, it will launch Hotline for you and attempt to
access the HL server designated in the URL.) The servers are typically
folks own computers, kinda just run out of their basement or bedroom or
something.
Carracho, then, is just a different application for communicating over the
Internet. You use Carracho to access a Carracho server, just as you use a
web browser to access a web server. How do you know what Carracho servers
there are?? You use a site like tracker-tracker.com . A tracker is a
special site that keeps track of all the Carracho (or Hotline) servers that
it can detect as available on the Internet.
So, you download Carracho from the web site. You point your web browser at
tracker-tracker.com to find potential Carracho sites to try. Then you use
the Carracho application to connect up and try to find your file and
download it.
I hope that clears things up a bit.
- Eric.
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