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What is TekNap?

TekNap is a Napster-compatible client for file downloading and on-line chatting with colorable text, originally named BWap. It is a console client, designed to administer OpenNap servers, and capable of administering most aspects of SlavaNap servers.

TekNap is a console Napster client written and maintained by the author of a very well known IRC client, BitchX -- Colten Edwards aka panasync. Owing to the fact that it is based on BitchX, it shares the same script writing abilities. It has built in support for both OpenNap and Napster servers. The program has been ported to a variety of Operating Systems, the list of these can be viewed in the section below. Derived from the Unix/Linux based IRC client, BitchX, TekNap runs in a command line environment natively on *nix OS machines and on Windows machines using a Cygwin dynamically linked library (.dll file.) called cygwindevo.dll.

It connects to servers using the napster protocol such as OpenNap and Slavanap.

Why should I use TekNap?

TekNap has a powerful scripting language based on ircII, similar to that of BitchX/Epic. With this in mind, most aspects of the client are fully customisable. Routines that are performed manually on servers can be scripted to be completed automatically. There are a large number of scripts already written for TekNap, check out the script repository.

Will TekNap work on my computer?

TekNap has been known so successfully compile and run on the following operating systems:

* Linux (All)
* BSDi
* FreeBSD
* MacOS
* Solaris
* Windows/32
* OS/2
* HPUX