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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: how can you keep on moving, unless you migrate too?
Message-ID: <23788@estelle.udel.EDU>
Date: 6 Jul 90 14:40:17 GMT
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Reply-To: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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In article <YUKNGO.90Jul6013142@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca> yukngo@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Cheung Yukngo) writes:
>You can implement a ftp client with interactive mode, batch
>mode, and half batch mode 

Actually, there is a BITFTP server somewhere that you can mail an FTP script
to and it will do the FTP and mail you back the results automatically. Hence,
you have the best of both worlds.  I don't remember anything in the FTAM
spec that would imply that the service cannot be interactive, either.
Anyway, I think that the implementations of the FTP and FTAM protocols are
a separate issue than the protocols themselves, either of which can
be batch or interactive.                  -- Darren