A serving channel (sometimes called a depot channel) is a slang term for a file sharing channel found on an IRC network. Slang is the use of highly informal Words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's Dialect or Language. See Shared resource for the conventional meaning of file sharing File sharing refers to the providing and receiving of digital files over a Here, users can share and download files including photos, videos, audio files, books, programs, etc. Users that are actively sharing their files are generally referred to as 'servers', whereas users that download without sharing their own files are generally referred to as 'leeches'. Leeches are Annelids comprising the Subclass Hirudinea. There are freshwater terrestrial and marine leeches While serving normally implies pirated or questionable material, some channels are used for fully legitimate reasons. There are two styles of servers, Fserves, and serving scripts like OmenServe. Direct Client-to-Client ( DCC) is an IRC -related sub-protocol enabling peers to interconnect using an IRC server for handshaking in order to exchange

Contents 1 Fserve type channels 1.1 Searching & Requesting with Fserves 2 Serving Script type channels 2.1 Searching & Requesting with Serving Scripts 3 See also 4 External links

Fserve type channels

Using an Fserve script, a server is set up like an FTP. Using CTCP commands and server triggers, a user can initiate a connection with the server. Once connected, the user will be given realtime access to a server's file archive.

• ex. : "/CTCP <username> <trigger>"

Searching & Requesting with Fserves

Once a leech has gained access to a server's Fserve, they can navigate through folders using commands similar to DOS. DOS, short for "Disk Operating System" is a shorthand term for several closely related Operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market Once inside a folder, the user is able to display what files are found there.

• ex. : "cd <foldername>" & "dir" (to display files)

To request a file, the user copies and pastes a filename from the folder display listing, along with the "get" command. For a pejorative meaning see Cut and paste job In Human-computer interaction, cut and paste and copy and paste offer

• ex. : "get <filename. ext>"

Serving Script type channels

Using a serving script, servers have the ability to send files directly to another user using remote commands. The serving script compiles a listing of available files, and also listens for a leech to request a file. Serving scripts also allow for a user to search all of the servers in a channel at the same time with a single command.

Searching & Requesting with Serving Scripts

A user initiates a search by typing a 'search command' followed by a 'search string' within the channel window. Various search commands exist, including '@find', '@search', and '@seek', depending on what serving script is being used. Wildcard characters such as * can also be used in the search string to simplify a search. For other meanings of 'wild card' see Wild card. The term wildcard character has the following meanings Telecommunication In The search command will then return a list of files to the user's query window if any servers have a file that matches the search string.

• ex. : "@find <keyword>"

If there are any matches for the user's search string, the next step is to request those files from the server. The user can copy and paste the returned match, along with a short trigger command, from the query window directly into the channel window. The request is then placed in a file queue within the serving script, and downloaded on a first come, first serve basis. A queue (pronounced /kjuː/ is a particular kind of collection in which the entities in the collection are kept in order and the principal (or only operations on the collection

• ex. : "!<username> <filename. ext>"

Users also have the ability to download the complete archive of a server's available files, commonly called a "list" due to the .txt format that the script's output code creates. To request a server's list, there is a separate 'list trigger' used.

• ex. : "@<username>"

See also

• DCC
• XDCC
• File sharing
• Peer-to-peer

External links

• Omenscripts family of file sharing scripts
• Sooplex IRC, mIRC file serving make easy

Direct Client-to-Client ( DCC) is an IRC -related sub-protocol enabling peers to interconnect using an IRC server for handshaking in order to exchange XDCC ( Xabi DCC or eXtended DCC) was initially a script written in 1994 for IrcII by Xabi See Shared resource for the conventional meaning of file sharing File sharing refers to the providing and receiving of digital files over a For other uses of the term see Peer-to-peer (disambiguation For peer-to-peer networks used for file sharing see File sharing

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