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From: abstine@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: FTP "STRU VMS" extension
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Date: 11 Feb 89 20:36:15 GMT
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How about if we take a quick vote on the various solutions to this
problem and then someone can author an RFC describing how it would be
done. I think the Un*x types are being somewhat prejudiced in this case
by refusing to recognize that there is a need for this type of facility.
Just because it doesn't apply to them in this case, they con't want to see
it added to the overall FTP protocol. The whole point of this is
interoperability. I don't see what is so wrong in adding something like
this to the protocol to further that end. Lets face it: Unix is NOT the
only OS in the world, nor will it probably ever be. Lets stop quibbling about
this and get something moving here. Otherwise, the various vendors are
going to just going to have to make something non-standard in their particular
implementations to provide this very necessary service and we would not
benefit from that.

Art Stine
Sr Network Engineer
Clarkson U

ABStine@CLVMS.Clarkson.Edu