metalink
========

License: GPLv3+
Status: production

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Read INSTALL for installation instructions.

metalink is a small program based on libgcrypt, glibmm and some boost libraries.
It generates a metalink record on the stdout for every file given on the
commandline and using the mirror list from the stdin.
It is also able to create a hash list (see the --hashlist option).

Be patient: the implementation isn't optimized and calculating
the hashes for 600MB can take up to two minutes on a 1 GHz machine.
Also note that it is creating a number of hashes and for GNUnet
links it's even symmetrically encrypting blocks of data, all this
takes time.

Usage
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For and example of use:

    cd example
    ./gen.sh

This will, if all goes well, generate a valid itworked.metalink file.

Use metalink --help for more information.


Caveats
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ED2K links don't support files larger then 4GB (4294967295),
however metalink only supports ED2K links of no more then 4290048000 bytes
 (which is a nice whole number of blocks).

Files with a ".metalink" extension will never be hashed.


