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giFT Internet File Transfer ('''giFT''') is a Computer Software Daemon that allows several File Sharing protocols to be used with a simple client having a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The client dynamically loads Plugin s implementing the protocols, as they are required. The protocols are:
The clients communicate with the giFT process using a lightweight Network Protocol ; the protocol code is completely abstracted from the User Interface . There are already several giFT GUI Front-end s for Microsoft Windows , Apple Macintosh , and Unix-like Operating System s. The name ''giFT'' is a Recursive Acronym . giFT is written using relatively Cross-platform C Code . giFT currently lacks Unicode support included, and it is impossible to share files with characters such as "ø","ä", "å", "é", "è", "ó", "ö", "ù", "ü" in their names. OPENFT PROTOCOL giFT's sibling project is OpenFT , a Peer-to-peer file sharing Network Protocol that has 'search' nodes and 'index' Supernode s in addition to common Nodes . According to the giFT documentation:
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