btmakemetafile.bittorrent (1)

Leading comments

                                     Hey, EMACS: 
First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/btmakemetafile.bittorrent.1".)

NAME

btmakemetafile - program to generate torrent info files for bittorrent

SYNOPSIS

btmakemetafile file tracker_announce_address [ option ... ]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the btmakemetafile command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

btmakemetafile is a program that generates the torrent info files which are distributed to bittorrent clients (usually via the WWW) in order to inform them where the designated tracker for the torrent is located, and to allow them to verify the file's contents.

btmakemetafile takes two arguments. Both are required. The first is the file that the torrent info file will be generated for. The second is the "announce" address of a tracker (ex. 127.0.0.1:6969/announce

OPTIONS

--piece_size_pow2 arg

which power of 2 to set the piece size to (default: 18)

SEE ALSO

bittorrent-downloader(1), btrename(1), btreannounce(1), bttrack(1).

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Michael Janssen <jamuraa@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).