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From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
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Date: 21 May 91 23:33:10 GMT
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[is this a real person?]
lan_csse@netrix.nac.dec.com (CSSE LAN Test Account) writes:
|Ummm...UUCP over TCP has been in existence for years; quite a lot of
|vendors supply it.
|. . . it is a whole lot nicer than ftp. It retries if
|the call doesn't go through; it does proper error checking and doesn't
|hand you garbaged files;

eh?

|If the BSD crowd didn't have such a bad case of NIHitis, we'd all have
|it by now...

eh?

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