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From: randy@umn-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: General file transfer by E-mail
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Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 02:25:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 17 02:25:12 1987
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References: <1824@vax135.UUCP> <1084@ius2.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: randy@umn-cs.UUCP (Randy Orrison)
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Summary: What's wrong with FTP?  What FTP?

In article <1084@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
>In article <1824@vax135.UUCP>, booth@vax135.UUCP (David Booth) writes:
>> 	WANTED: Network Independant File Transfer by Electronic Mail
>> The problem: how to transfer an arbitrary file from one arbitrary site
>> to another using existing network connections.
>
>	Whats wrong with FTP?  You can get to anywhere else on the 
>network using it.
>					Eddie Wyatt

"anywhere else on the network?"  What network are you talking about?  There
are many sites that still don't have an arpanet connection (a perfect
example: nermal here, a Wicat 150 with a whopping 6 serial ports!
(TCP/IP?  never heard of it...) hopefully soon I'll have USENET coming in
on my 1200 baud modem, but for now my main file transfer method is ~%take)

The point is that arpanet isn't everywhere, by a LONG shot.  However,
I do think it would be nice to come up with a mechanism that would
interface uucp with ftp, for file transfer across multiple networks.
Fits in nice with the domain names, too...  uucp ux.acss.umn.edu!test x
regardless of what networks are traversed between here and ux.
Any feasability thoughts?
	-randy
-- 
Randy Orrison, University of Minnesota Math Department
(even though I'm a Computer Science major)
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