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In article <PCG.90Jun25084059@rupert.cs.aber.ac.uk> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>Ironically a number of JANET hosts are migrating as fast as they can to
>TCP/IP; I expect that eventually JANET will be used only to carry TCP/IP
>traffic on X.25 circuits. In other words, it can also be true that JANET
>hosts find quite a bit of utility in being able to access the INTERNET,
>which is some orders of magnitude larger.

I wouldn't have said there were many sites migrating to TCP/IP though.
Most of us are heading for OSI as soon as possible.
I thought the amount of IP tunneling on JANET was quite small.
Even as it is, it is possible to FTAM to the Internet from my box.

>Well, in the UK there are quite a few; let's say half a dozen at least,
>and maybe as much as a dozen. Anonymous FTAM is far less convenient
>(it's currently strictly offline, spooled, batch) than FTP, but at
>least the user is is the much more convenient "guest" rather than
>"anonymous" :-).

This is simply not true.
You can use the ISODE FTAM implementation which does I pretty good
emulation of the Berkeley Internet ftp.
It is the Blue Book NIFTP which is batched.

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