Re: Spectrum/Email/FTP?

[derek@slab.slip.uiuc.edu (Derek Taubert)]

In article <1993Nov3.130908.23361@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>  
behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) writes:

> Ah, ummm ... ok. I should've clarified. Apologies. What I meant was really
> that X wouldn't work. Personally, I see no gain whatsoever in using my
> ftp client over using another machine's ftp client _unless_ I get some nice
> bells and whistles, namely, X.

OK, OK, OK!  Apology accepted!  Sheesh, you didn't have to post it 3 times!
:-)

> I am not using SLIP right now because the interactive account is cheaper,
> and I am happy with the functionality of "standard" ftp and telnet.

There's more to the internet than ftp, telnet, and X, ya know...

> So, what I meant to say was, probably: SLIP on a non-X machine does not
> gain you much over uucp and interactive IP.

BAH!  I'm not too familiar with interactive IP, so I'm going to refrain from
blasting you with examples until I get more info on it.  Consider yourself
lucky.  ;-)  If you're hung up on UUCP, it is possible to do that over a TCP
connection.

> Oh, hmm ... thinking about it ... depending on the setup, it might. I am
> lucky enough to be able to use bi-directional fast uucp, but many might
> be stuck with the old -G variant ... in that case, SLIP is of course
> a definite gain for polling news and the like.

Remote logins, anonymous ftp, nifty finger servers, just think of all the
wonderful things other people can be doing with your machine!  :-)  Besides,
the X windows implementation looks like something I'd like to learn more about
anyway, so if we ever get better graphics hardware...

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