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From: yukngo@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Cheung Yukngo)
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Subject: Re: how can you keep on moving, unless you migrate too?
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Date: 6 Jul 90 00:31:42 GMT
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In-reply-to: jc@minya.UUCP's message of 6 Jul 90 02:54:51 GMT

In article <419@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:

   > 			 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" :-).

                   ...     The problem with ftp (and rcp) is that the
   terminal (or window) is tied up for the duration, and I have to sit
   there and hold its hand to get it to work right.

Well, I think we should differentiate ftp the protocol and ftp the
program. You can implement a ftp client with interactive mode, batch
mode, and half batch mode (you login interactively, find the file you
want to transfer, and tell the ftp to get rid of the control terminal
and do the transfering in the background without supervision).  If you
like the challenge you can also design and implement a script language
for it.

But then, this has nothing to do with ftp, the protocol.