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From: daveh@marob.uucp (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc
Subject: Re: Xenix 'ftp'?
Keywords: ftp xenix file transfer
Message-ID: <279F236A.1EA0@marob.uucp>
Date: 24 Jan 91 18:11:54 GMT
References: <1172@bcs800.UUCP>
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In article <1172@bcs800.UUCP> jeffs@bcs800.UUCP (Jeff Smith) writes:
>Does anyone know how to use the xenix 'ftp'?  It's kinda puzzling though.
>The reason for asking is that I've just re-installed my altos 486
>(xenix 3.1as0) and found an executable in /usr/bin called 'ftp'.  I've 
>used ftp on other machines for file transfer, but i'm still not sure
>why it would be on the altos distribution diskettes; it's strange that
>this machine would definately be called bare-bones by just about any
>standard (just the run-time ;-( ) but why in the world would it have
>ftp if it couldn't be used on a regular basis by most of the users.  Is there
>something I'm missing about this machine? 

FTP (File Transfer Program, *not* File Transfer Protocol) was part of the
original Microsoft Xenix-III. Xenix-III predates the ftp network software,
hence the name collision.  FTP also appears in the Tandy Xenix distribution
which was based on Microsoft Xenix-III.

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Dave Hammond
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