[24549] in Cypherpunks
Re: Making sure a program gets to the receiver intact
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Farquhar)
Tue Dec 27 20:47:23 1994
From: "Ian Farquhar" <ianf@sydney.sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 12:30:27 -0500
In-Reply-To: Nesta Stubbs <nesta@nesta.pr.mcs.net>
"Re: Making sure a program gets to the receiver intact" (Dec 27, 7:14pm)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
On Dec 27, 7:14pm, Nesta Stubbs wrote:
> put it int he file that pops up from the FTP server when you switch to
> that directory, am not sur what the file is called, but like when you
> switch to the pub/Linux directory on sunsite, it gives youa rundown of
> what Linux is and all.
The ftpd's that implement the directory-change messages is not a standard
one, and that functionality has been added to the servers which support it
(possibly Linux ships with wuftpd, but no commercial version of Unix I know
does.) The extended servers are very widely available, and although they
do make ftp so much nicer to administer, they are not as widely deployed as I
would have expected by now.
Ian.
