Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
--- Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 02:45:33PM -0700, George
> Bonser wrote:
> > Look at the Linux package sendfile and the
> preliminary draft of the RFC
> > for the saft profocol.
> >
> > The way it works is this:
> >
> > I send a file to username@somewhere.dom
>
> Curious. The long-gone ACSnet (Australian Computer
> Society network)
> had a similar service, with binaries also named
> fetchfile and sendfile.
> One of the university systems I have access to still
> has the binaries
> installed, actually. I think the binaries came with
> Sun3, originally.
>
> A search for "+acsnet +fetchfile" on altavista will
> even tell you how to
> get the X11R5 sources off ACSnet.
There is also a reference on the SAFT/sendfile site to
Bitnet having this function so it apparently has
"roots".
G.S.
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