David Madore's programs

Important note (2003-08-30): The object of this page is essentially to avoid needlessly breaking links and suppressing information (if I simply remove the former version), and yet warn the reader about this: I hardly program any more, or, when I do, the programs I write are for my own consumption (which I'm willing to let anyone have or copy, but I doubt they'll be of any use, and I don't want to waste my time by writing manuals and whatnots).

This being said: you can access the former version of this page (or an even earlier version if you wish), but be aware that many things said therein are now obsolete: as far as I can tell, the last changes of any importance made to that page date back to early 2001, and only until mid-2000 was it regularly updated. So be warned.

That being said, if you wish to find programs by me, the best thing to do is probably dig in my public FTP site and see what you can gather there. Some tarballs come with an explanation of some kind.

Please do not come to me with any questions whatsoever (other than historical, perhaps) concerning ftpd-BSD. This program was a (sometime very popular) Linux port of OpenBSD's FTP server, which I started in mid-1999 and maintained until mid-2000: the last version I wrote was 0.3.2. After that, I relinquished maintainership to W. L. Estes (wlestesuncgedu), who released version 0.3.3 (around March 2001), and, as far as I can tell, also ceased to maintain ftpd-BSD.

This program is now completely obsolete, not having been maintained for two years and a half (as I write this), and should not be used, period. You should not expect any serious security from it, since none of the updates made by OpenBSD since mid-2001 have been incorporated. If you have need for a fast and secure (and free) FTP server, I suggest using vsftpd, which is released under the GNU General Public License; or perhaps fftpd, though the latter is still pre-alpha as I write.

If you find any pointers to ftpd-BSD which still recommend it, please tell the webmaster to mark the software as obsolete (and possibly point here for explanations).

If you think ftpd-BSD should still be maintained (for example because you need software licensed under the BSD license), you'll have to volunteer to do it yourself. Just go ahead! Use a version number greater or equal to 0.4.0, and let me know, and Will Estes too if you can reach him, so we can point to the right place.

All versions of ftpd-BSD are archived in the ftpd-BSD/ directory on my FTP site (version 0.3.3 is in the contrib/ subdirectory).

If you are looking for the Unlambda programming language, the relevant page is here. But Unlambda is also not being maintained any more.