Torrent Compatibility?
 

I have Phex 2.8.10.98 and was wondering if Phex had support for reading Torrent files...

If not it should :p a nice request and almost essential to file-sharing!!

-DJ Rizzle

Phex doesn't read out torrents, as (afaik) they lack a sha1-hash, which is crucial to start a file-specific search in Gnutella.

Different from BitTorrent, Gnutella is a network with an efficient internal search-mechanism, so you don't open a torrent, but simply start a search for the content you want, instead (and if someone shares it, you will likely find it and get to download it).

If you need torrent-support, why not use two programs, Phex for Gnutella, another one for torrents?

Integrating torrents into Phex would be a hell of a lot of work - work which can be better used for making the Gnutella network more efficient still, and there are some really great bittorrent-programs out there already.

A work in progress to create a torrent alternative for gnutella can be found at http://www.freebase.be/ , where you can find magnet-links for popular free windows software.

Also there are magma-lists, with which you can also serve content just like in a torrent file, but they aren't that widespread yet (at this time, Phex can read and create them).

Phex is GNUTELLA p2p network "client". Bittorent is totally diffrent p2p network. In my opinion Phex should stick to Gnutella network only.
If you want to use some bloated multi-p2p-client then use MLDonkey.