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See Also
 KingJohns guide to
KaZaA sharing.
One of the great things
you can do with your home made movies is share them with others. Instead of
playing the same old tape on a Sunday afternoon, when your friends visit "Our
Holiday 1836" you can now impress them by showing them someone else's holiday.
:) Oh NO !!!
Sig2Dat is used to add files to your KaZaA download list. Once
installed you can click any of the quick links that are posted on sites
with them (None here). Always make sure you download the official Sig2Dat
as there are some versions about that do not work correctly.
Also make sure that any links you see, are
described correctly, don't click any links which sound like they are copyright
material.
If you have any other version installed, you should un-install it first,
although there should be no problems in installing it on top of what you
have.
Double click sig2dat_3_11_a_setup.exe to begin installation.
By clicking the icons in the list, you can select which to install
If this is your first time, accept the defaults, and click Next, except
the default location, if that is where you have also installed KaZaA
"C:\Program Files\Kazaa\" > Install
When the installation has finished, you can see what has been put on your
system
sig2dat.exe , The main program
url-sig2dat.reg , A registration file to
instruct your browser how to use the quick links
Uninstall.exe, and some short cuts to the
program.
Re-boot your PC after installation before you test it out, if you find its
not working, go to the installation folder on your hard drive and double
click url-sig2dat.reg and make sure there are no errors.
So how does it work
When you click a link to a zip file on the internet, your browser might
ask you if you wish to open the file or save it. You may have WinZip
installed, so that it will automatically download the zip file without
asking you, so the .zip file may be associated with WinZip. Just as a .txt
file may be associated with notepad.
In the same way, your browser has been set up to associate quick links
with Sig2Dat, when you click any of them, Sig2Dat will automatically run,
and deal with the quick link.
So what is a quick link
quick links do not provide a means of directly downloading a file, they
only give the file size and a unique code of that file.
The code for each file is never the same, so when added to your KaZaA
download list, a search will be done for a match of a file using that
unique code. If a match is found it will start to download direct from the
persons PC, if several matches are found, simultaneous downloading will
begin from those sources.
Once the unique code has been made from a file, you can rename the file to
anything you want, it will still be found, but you must not change the
file structure in anyway or the code will also change, if for example you
downloaded a wedding movie with bad frames, fixed them and shared the new
file, it would no longer be the same as the original, and you would need
to make a new code for it.
Making your own quick links and Hash Codes
When you first run Sig2Dat it will show a screen like above, as you can
see it has found my download location, that is where my KaZaA lite
downloads its files. It has also told me It has not found Morpheus,
Grokster or iMesh which I don't have installed. Although there are
different methods of making a unique code by dragging and dropping, I will
include the normal method by selecting "Signature Calculation" from its
menu.
Your mostly going to use the "as URL=" or the (hybrid on the same line).
Click the button "Select File(s) for calculation, then locate the file(s)
on your hard drive, you can select one at a time or all of them at once.
In this example I have selected just one file, as shown below.
When you have opened the file, you will now see the unique code in its
window, select as URL or hybrid and select "Copy to
clipboard" paste that code into a message on this site.
As Url will look like this
CodecTest_Xvid_AC3.avi
As hybrid will look like this
File:CodecTest_Xvid_AC3.avi
Length:53248
Bytes,52KB|UUHash:=+h3IhDvuXFGattKiPPbPr/8v//8=
They can both be used, and as you can see, one shows more information than
the other. But they will both work the same. Some people prefer to copy
the codes and paste them into Sig2Dat, while others just click the quick
link to automatically add it to their KaZaA download.
This is what the others look like..
As Normal
File:CodecTest_Xvid_AC3.avi
Length:53248 Bytes,52KB
UUHash:=+h3IhDvuXFGattKiPPbPr/8v//8=
As quick link HTML style
<a href="sig2dat:///|Files:CodecTest_Xvid_SC3.avi|Length:53248
Bytes,52KB|UUHash:=+h3IhDvuXFGattKiPPbPr/8v//8=|CodecTest_Xvid_AC3.avi</a>
As hybrid HTML style
File:<a href="sig2dat:///|File:CodecTest_Xvid_AC3.avi|Length:53248
Bytes,52KB|UUHash:=+h3IhDvuXFGattKiPPbPr/8v//8=|CodecTest_Xvid_AC3.avi</a>
Length:53248 Bytes,52KB UUHash:=+h3IhDvuXFGattKiPPbPr/8v//8=
Remember, when you click a quick link, you need to restart KaZaA before it
is shown in your download list (Some will automatically add it without a
restart). And the person who is sharing the file has to be online before
you can start downloading, that can take anything from a few minutes to
weeks !
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