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Article #3538Re: BITFTP grief!
From: Paul Graham
Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 23:33
Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 23:33
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[is this a real person?] lan_csse@netrix.nac.dec.com (CSSE LAN Test Account) writes: |Ummm...UUCP over TCP has been in existence for years; quite a lot of |vendors supply it. |. . . it is a whole lot nicer than ftp. It retries if |the call doesn't go through; it does proper error checking and doesn't |hand you garbaged files; eh? |If the BSD crowd didn't have such a bad case of NIHitis, we'd all have |it by now... eh? -- pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu / rutgers!ub!pjg / pjg@ubvms (Bitnet) opinions found above are mine unless marked otherwise.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! Message-ID: <77373@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 21 May 91 23:33:10 GMT References: <1991May17.200736.8137@uu.psi.com> <1991May18.173513.3472@chinet.chi.il.us> <22813@shlump.lkg.dec.com> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Distribution: na Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: urth.acsu.buffalo.edu