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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: FTP for PCIP
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Date: 24 Apr 89 13:55:48 GMT
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PC-IP never had an FTP application.  This is one of the reasons our company
has the name it does (it was first on the list of things that John Romkey
wanted to add in the process of making a commercial product out of his work
at MIT).  The problem is that PC-IP can't have an FTP application without a
lot of work, because FTP needs 2 simultaneous TCP connections, and SRCLIB\TCP
can only handle one.

Multiple-connection TCPs have been done for PC-IP at least 3 times:  Ours,
the one that Stanford did and sold to Bridge and TWG, and the one that UMD
did for IBM.  Normally, you have to buy all of these versions.  I think you
might be able to get Stanford binaries (but not source unless you're going
to do development they want), and if U of Waterloo has the right relationship
with IBM, you might also get the UMD source.

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