Xref: utzoo news.admin:14507 comp.mail.uucp:6599 Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.uucp Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: BITFTP Message-ID: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: Date: Mon, 20 May 91 17:37:54 GMT In article emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes: > Peter da Silva writes: > If they can set up *one* script for *one* site, either with a 900 number or > a service agreement, and type: > Are you insisting on BITFTP compatibility, or would that just be one > preferred option? I don't care about the interface, as long as it lets me do the same things. I don't want to depend on the rftp server having up-to-date archives, or on the source I want being on an "official" archive site. > And also naturally there would be an interface to the > raw "OPEN, CD, GET" commands if you're dealing with a sufficiently > goofy remote system that expressing things in terms of one-liners is > not adequate to the task. Like SIMTEL? Or does rftp know about SIMTEL's <> stuff in your model? -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"