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- From: rmcormon@alfred.carleton.ca (Russell McOrmond)
- Subject: Re: The HYDRA bidirectional file transfer protocol.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.182546.19169@cunews.carleton.ca>
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- Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
- References: <1993Jan22.050405.17731@cunews.carleton.ca> <1jqrj4INN7f9@uwm.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:25:46 GMT
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- In article <1jqrj4INN7f9@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:
- >Well, filenotes aren't standardized currently, and if you're going to
- >use XferQ for the outbound directory anyways, why not keep track of
- >inbound stuff with it?
-
-
- Filenotes are trivial to standardize, we just have to say "Sure,
- I'll do it that way". With WPL it's totally user configurable.
- Inbound filenotes are already in heavy use by many different programs
- and there is no reason I can think of not to continue to use it. If
- it ain't broke, don't fix it.
-
- (Unlike the current non multi-thread capable and/or address dependant
- methods for outbound handling such as UUCP C.#? or fonet #?.FLO files).
-
- What is the PURPOSE of keeping track of inbound files? For outbound
- files it is obvious that you need to know what files are to go where -
- For inbound the information can be gotten in any number of easier and
- more efficient methods (Changing inbound directories, filenotes, etc,
- etc).
-
- You'd have to do a lot of convincing (Or write the code yourself
- <grin>) before I'd add 'inbound tracking with XferQ) into WPL as I
- don't see the purpose.
-
- >I remember reading somewhere that you were going to end up doing
- >"example code snips" in the documentation. I could have misread,
- >though. :)
-
- I will be doing that in the WPL programmers manual - With XferQ I'm
- just a user.
-
- >It's good that a file request shell will exist, then. It's something
- >that could get a lot of use with WPL. :)
-
- The file request shell and WPL have nothing to do with each other,
- except that a WPL based mailer will be compatable with the request
- shell. There is absolutely no direct communication between this
- request shell and WPL (BY DESIGN) so that if any other mailer author
- added XferQ support to their mailer this request shell, and all
- compatable file request handlers will automatically work.
-
- The FREQ shell's sources will be released public domain so that any
- file request program author can just include code out of it and make
- the request shell's use obsolite with their request handler.
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