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Subject: Re: MS-DOS Kermit, more capabalities
From: cangel@famvid.com
Message-ID: <Yntg4.4437$NU6.161022@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>
Organization: bCandid - Powering the world's discussions - http://bCandid.com
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:29:45 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On 2000-01-16 jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu(JeffreyAltman) said:
JA> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
JA> In article <1Iag4.2678$NU6.52105@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,
JA> <cangel@famvid.com> wrote:
JA>DO> in December of 1999, in Manhattan. I wanted a "BOO" file.
JA>DO> After visiting the site with a diskette that had kermit
JA>DO> on it, away I went. Jefferey Altman mentioned that he had
JA>DO> been in the neighborhood, and would have been glad to drop
JA>DO> off a copy, on the media of my choice.
JA>DO> Support! ;-)
JA> Nice for you. You must be a very special person. Thank you for
JA> sharing this with all the rest of us who are _not_ special.
JA> What makes you think Mr. Dold is so special?
Ah ... he wants a copy of a file and is offered "home delivery", I ask
about the same type of file and it seems to annoy everyone. Different
and not !Support! by my definition.
JA> The point of his statement is that I was going to be near where he
JA> was. So I offered to bring him what he needed. Mr. Dold has been a
JA> long time contributor to this newsgroup for as long as I can
JA> remember, but that does not make him special. When I travel the
JA> world I often make a point of meeting with our users. I have done
JA> so in South Africa, Sweden, and several cities around the U.S.
The rest of us don't travel the world (and don't care) but thanks for
sharing that with us.
JA>DO> I've been in several "spots" where I had a whole pile of
JA>DO> protocols on one end of a wire, and none on the other.
JA> Failing memory?
JA> Most older computers did not come with any networking or file
JA> transfer protocols.
How old? I've been at this since just after the need to buy a kit and
solder the thing together yourself. 20+ years or so. At the very
minimum I had ASCII transfer available.
Charles.Angelich