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From: jbvb@FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
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Subject: Re: Need: Enhanced FTP
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Date: 7 Mar 91 18:05:55 GMT
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    The only example of data and control connection "juggling" that I'm aware
    of is in FTP clients that support what I'm in the habit of calling "third
    party copies". The idea is that you can sit at Machine A and use FTP to
    transfer a file from Machine B to Machine C without the data ever darkening
    Machine As doorstep. We support this in both our Windows 3.0 based FTP
    client and also our non-Windows FTP client in the LAN Workplace for DOS.
    I'm not sure if FTP softwares client can do this too but it wouldn't
    surprise me (2.04 couldn't, right James?).

Nobody's ever asked for it in our client, but someone reported a bug related
to this in our DOS FTP server, which will be fixed in the next minor release.
    
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