dfireBird / tincan

Tincan is TUI-based P2P chat and file sharing program

Tincan

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Tincan is TUI-based P2P chat and file sharing program written in Rust

Installation

Tincan is currently not pushed in crates.io so you have to build from the source. Ensure you have Cargo before building

Building

1. Clone the source

$ git clone https://github.com/dfireBird/tincan

1. Use cargo to build

$ cargo build --release

1. Install it using cargo, which will copy the binary to ~/.cargo/bin/ (assuming your prefix is ~/.cargo)

$ cargo install

Usage

To start Tincan simply enter:

$ tincan

in the terminal.

Commands

• ?connect <ip address>: connects to the peer identified by the ip address.
• ?file <path of file>: sends the specified file to peer. File that should be transferred should be less than 4kb in size.

License

Tincan is primarily distributed under the terms of MIT License. See LICENSE for details.