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From: meissner@tiktok.dg.com (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: FTP implemetation issues (was Re: FTP "STRU VMS" extension)
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Date: 11 Feb 89 12:53:48 GMT
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In article <NELSON.89Feb3233605@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
| Speaking of FTP, has anyone implemented RESTart?  Restart requires MODE C
| (compressed), which is a simple repeated-byte-packing algorithm.  I
| checked radc-tops20's FTP server as well as several flavors of Unix FTP
| servers, and none of them support Compressed mode... :-(

I beleive that Data General's native UNIX (DG/UX) 4.00 FTP does support
RESTart and MODE C operations.  Though of course you probably need
both sides of the connection to support it. :-).
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Michael Meissner, Data General.
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