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Bug#221806: ITP: mmsclient -- mms streaming media download utility



On Thursday 20 November 2003 12:47 pm, Ian Eure wrote:
> On Thursday 20 November 2003 06:12 am, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 November 2003 12:10 am, Joe Drew wrote:
> > > Do you have a definition of MMS? MultiMedia Stream?
> >
> > Various sources list it as "Microsoft Media Server protocol" or
> > "MultiMedia Stream protocol." From what I can glean, those are both
> > interpolations from the protocol prefix "mms://"
> >
> > The website http://get.to/sdp has some non-free "FreeWare" as well
> > as some documents on the MMS protocol that they figured out
> > themselves. The mmsclient upstream web page links here as a
> > reference.
>
> Could you clarify that somewhere in the package description? It's
> confusing, since MMS is also MultiMedia Messenging*, and there's a
> 'smsclient' package which sends SMS messages.
>
> * MMS is (basically) like an extended SMS, which you can send
> pictures, video, etc through.

Thanks for the input; I wasn't aware of the competing acronym. I'll 
update the description in the package to make it clear which MMS I'm 
talking about.

-- 
Wesley J. Landaker - wjl@icecavern.net
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