NAME
    Net::DirectConnect - Perl Direct Connect protocol implementation

SYNOPSIS
      use Net::DirectConnect;
      my $dc = Net::DirectConnect->new(
        'host' => 'dc.mynet.com:4111', #if not 411
        'Nick' => 'Bender', 
        'description' => 'kill all humans',
         #'M'           => 'P', #passive mode, autodetect by default
         #'local_mask'       => [qw(80.240)], #mode=active if hub in this nets and your ip in gray
      );
      $dc->wait_connect();
      $dc->chatline( 'hi all' );

      while ( $dc->active() ) {
        $dc->work();    
      }
      $dc->destroy();

    look at examples for handlers

DESCRIPTION
     Currently NOT supported:
     self filelist making 
     segmented, multisource download;
     async connect;

      BROKEN: in freebsd8 tigerhash compile

INSTALLATION
     To install this module type the following:

       perl Makefile.PL && make install clean

SEE ALSO
    #pro http://pro.setun.net/dcppp/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcppp

     http://svn.setun.net/dcppp/timeline/browser/trunk

     latest snapshot
     svn co svn://svn.setun.net/dcppp/trunk/ dcppp

     usage example:
     used in [and created for] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pro-search http://pro.setun.net/search/
     ( http://svn.setun.net/search/trac.cgi/browser/trunk/crawler.pl )


     protocol info:
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Connect_network
     http://www.teamfair.info/DC-Protocol.htm
     http://adc.sourceforge.net/ADC.html

     also useful for creating links from web:
     http://magnet-uri.sourceforge.net/
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet:_URI_scheme

TODO
     CGET file files.xml.bz2 0 -1 ZL1<<<

     Rewrite better

AUTHOR
    Oleg Alexeenkov, <pro@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Oleg Alexeenkov

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at
    your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.