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Howdy Communication System的目的是提供一个简单、易用的基于文本的 TCP/IP 通信方法

Howdy is free software distributed under the GNU General Public Licence.
It comes with absolutely no warranty. See the COPYING file for more details.

The following commands will help you if you have a UNIX-like operating system.

If you don't want to install Howdy, you can run it right out of the Jar:
java -jar Howdy2.jar

To run the server, try:
java -jar Howdy2.jar s


The following steps require you to extract the files from the archive like this:
jar xf Howdy2.jar

Then, change into Howdy/
cd Howdy/

To install Howdy AS ROOT, simply run the install.sh script like so:
./install.sh

To uninstall Howdy AS ROOT, run the uninstall.sh scrip:
./uninstall.sh


After installing Howdy, you should be able to run the server like so:
howdy s

To run the client, do this:
howdy c


If you need to recompile Howdy, go up one directory and run:
javac Howdy/Howdy.java


It is advisable to make sure your Howdy settings are only accicible by you since your passwords are contained in those files!
After running the client and/or the server you will probably want to run:
chmod 600 ~/.Howdy*

Enjoy!

Serban Giuroiu < [e-mail] >

See the official site at http://howdy.sourceforge.net