I'm not a developer, but I am skeptical. I can almost ALWAYS reproduce soemthing that someone says the software does. I've done extensive testing and under no circumstances have I EVER seen two file names with the same size returned from a search... I want to see your proof because I can't duplicate your result no matter what I try.


Here are a few of my observations and ways to observe them yourself:


1) All files that match the search with the same size are counted as the same file.

Duplication procedure:
Do a search for some extremely popular song with as few terms as possible. Pick the highest scoring file and start the download. Before it's done, pause the download, then look at your resumeinfo.txt file and check out the remote file names (in the [HOST] sections)


2) Only the first matched returned file of a particular size from a host is shown by XoloX, the rest are discarded.

Duplication procedure:
Run Bearshare on port 6437, allow one host connection and accept incoming hosts, but don't auto conenct.

Share your windows setup directory, and make sure that the .cab is a shared extension.

Open XoloX, go to your preferences, and connect to localhost on port 6347.

Do a search for the non numeric portion of the cab file names and CAB. In 98 the search would be 'WIN98 CAB" (no quotes) This test shows that XoloX will only show the first file returned of any size from a host.


3) All but the first returned MP3 from the latest versions of BearShare or Gnotella can be downloaded, the rest are corrupted.

Duplication procedure:
Run Bearshare/Gnotella on port 6437, allow one host connection and accept incoming hosts, but don't auto conenct.

Share some MP3s in BearShare/Gnotella

Open XoloX, go to your preferences, and connect to localhost on port 6347.

Search for ".mp3" (no quotes) and look at the first results that come in. (those will be from you)


4) XoloX limits outgoing results to 30, not 100 as was previously suggested to the public (long time ago)

Duplication procedure:
Run XoloX and another client as shown above, and share > 30 of a file type.

Search in your second client for .ext (where ext is the file type you have shared) and count the results that come from your IP (or localhost)