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Subject: Re: anonymous-ftp equivalent?
Date: 03 Sep 1996 12:02:30 GMT
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To: [e-mail] (Glenn Herteg)
In-reply-to: [e-mail]'s message of Fri, 23 Aug 1996 18:15:44 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Glenn Herteg) writes:
>We'd like to set up a service over an internal UNIX network which is the
>equivalent of anonymous ftp, allowing processes to get and put files within a
>particular file tree on a remote machine.  The trick is, we don't want any
>hassles with "logging in" -- no password prompt should ever appear, since the
>file transfers will be completely automated.
>
>What we have in mind is to set up one or more copies of kermit listening as
>servers on particular sockets on the remote machine.

Wouldn't rcp be a lot simpler?  No need to write anything.  No need
for extra processes all the time.  A lot faster.   Easiler to use...

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