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Subject: Re: RFC for MPUT and MGET in FTP . . .
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The 3-way FTP was used for various kinds of RJE management
(remote job entry) in the early days of ARPANET when we
still had a fair amount of batch processing going on.
Remember, this was in the early 1970's. The access control
complications in today's networking environment make this
more complicated, but having a program on one machine manage
the activities of programs on other machines seems useful
even today (and not merely in the RJE context). One might choose
other tools than 3-point FTP (i.e. more modern ones), of course.

Vint Cerf