Additional Documents

The Prospero documentation series will include the following:

Prospero Protocol Specification

You're reading it. Right now, this is the most current document we have, but it will eventually be re-targeted towards a more specialized audience when the other guides in the series are written and revised.

Prospero System User's Guide

This will describe the general features of the Prospero system that will be common to almost all user interfaces, such as ACL types and filters.

Prospero Command-Line Client User's Guide

Describes the command-line client package; this is the client that's been shipped with all Prospero releases.

Prospero Gopher Client User's Guide

This describes the Gopher menu-based client package, which is in progress.

Prospero Programmer's Manual

This describes the pfs and pcompat libraries, which Prospero applications programmers use to interface with Prospero.