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/\ \__
_ __ __ \ \ ,_\ ___ __ _
/\`'__/'__`\\ \ \/ / __`\/\ \/'\
\ \ \/\ \L\.\\ \ \_/\ \L\ \/> </
\ \_\ \__/.\_\ \__\ \____//\_/\_\
\/_/\/__/\/_/\/__/\/___/ \//\/_/
-- by sin and FRIGN
======================================================
What is it?
===========
ratox is a client implementation of the rather popular tox protocol[0].
Unlike other clients relying on GUIs as an interface to the user, ratox is
developed with the UNIX-philosophy in mind and allows complete
interaction through named pipes.
There's also a set of scripts[1] developed by various people that build on
top of the FIFO interface.
Getting started
===============
Get the latest version from the git-repository; build and install it.
Run ratox in an empty directory and it will create a set of files and
folders allowing you to control the client.
File structure
==============
A typical filesystem structure is shown below along with some comments
to help explain the semantics of the individual files.
.
|-- .ratox.data # ratox save file
|
|-- 0A734CBA717CEB7883D.... # friend's ID excluding nospam + checksum
| |-- call_in # 'arecord -r 48000 -c 1 -f S16_LE > call_in' to initiate a call
| |-- call_out # 'aplay -r 48000 -c 1 -f S16_LE - < call_out' to answer a call
| |-- call_state # (none, pending, active)
| |-- file_in # 'cat foo > file_in' to send a file
| |-- file_out # 'cat file_out > bar' to receive a file
| |-- file_pending # contains filename if transfer pending, empty otherwise
| |-- name # friend's nickname
| |-- online # 1 if friend online, 0 otherwise
| |-- remove # 'echo 1 > remove' to remove a friend
| |-- state # friend's user state; could be any of {none,away,busy}
| |-- status # friend's status message
| |-- text_in # 'echo yo dude > text_in' to send a text to this friend
| `-- text_out # 'tail -f text_out' to dump to stdout any text received
|
|-- 00000000
| |-- members # list of people in the conference
| |-- invite # 'echo 0A734CBA717CEB7883D.... >invite' to invite
| |-- leave # 'echo 1 >leave' to leave the conference
| |-- title_in # 'echo new-title >title_in' to update the conference title
| |-- title_out # contains the current title
| |-- text_in # 'echo blablahumbla >text_in' to message the other conference members
| |-- text_out # contains the messages sent so far in the conference
|
|-- id # 'cat id' to show your own ID, you can give this to your friends
|
|-- name # changing your nick
| |-- err # nickname related errors
| |-- in # 'echo my-new-nick > in' to change your name
| `-- out # 'cat out' to show your name
|
|-- nospam # changing your nospam
| |-- err # nospam related errors
| |-- in # 'echo AABBCCDD > in' to change your nospam
| `-- out # 'cat out' to show your nospam
|
|-- request # send and accept friend requests
| |-- err # request related errors
| |-- in # 'echo LONGASSID yo dude add me > in' to send a friend request
| `-- out # 'echo 1 > out/LONGASSID' to accept the friend request
|
|-- state # changing your user state
| |-- err # user status related errors
| |-- in # 'echo away > in' to change your user state; could be any of {none,away,busy}
| `-- out # 'cat out' to show your user state
|
`-- status # changing your status message
|-- err # status message related errors
|-- in # 'cat I am bored to death > in' to change your status message
`-- out # 'cat out' to show your status message
Features
========
1 v 1 messaging: Yes
File transfer: Yes
Group chat: Yes
Audio: Yes
Video: No
DNS discovery: No
Chat logs: Yes
Proxy support: Yes
Offline message: Yes
Offline transfers: Yes
Contact aliases: No
Contact blocking: No
Save file encryption: Yes
Multilingual: No
Multiprofile: Yes
Typing notification: No
Audio notifications: No
Emoticons: No
Spell check: No
Desktop sharing: No
Inline images: No
File resuming: No
Read receipts: No
Message splitting: Yes
Changing nospam: Yes
toxi URI: No
NOTE: Some of these features are not intended to be developed
in ratox itself but rather in external scripts[1] that are built upon
ratox.
Group chats do not have file transfers or audio, but will be updated
in the near future.
Examples
========
SSH over TOX for the practical paranoid
---------------------------------------
On the sender side (the client):
1) cd into the friend's directory (the server)
2) nc -lv 1234 > file_in < file_out
On the receiver side (the server):
1) cd into the friend's directory (the client)
2) cat < file_out | nc localhost 22 > file_in
Now on the client run the following:
ssh -o ProxyCommand="nc %h 1234" user@localhost
Screencasting using ffmpeg and mplayer
--------------------------------------
On the sender side:
ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 10 -s 1366x768 -i :0.0 -vcodec libx264 \
-pix_fmt yuv420p -preset fast -tune zerolatency -b:v 500k \
-f flv pipe: > file_in
On the receiver side:
mplayer -cache 1024 file_out
You may have to play about with the cache size.
Portability
===========
Builds and works on *BSD and Linux. To build on OSX you need
to apply a patch[2].
Contact
=======
You can reach us through the freenode IRC network at #2f30 or
through tech@lists.2f30.org.
[0] https://tox.im/
[1] http://git.2f30.org/ratox-nuggets/
[2] http://ratox.2f30.org/ratox-os_x.patch
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