12 Mar
2007
12 Mar
'07
11:40 p.m.
At 11:53 PM -0500 3/12/07, Jay West wrote:
Eric wrote....
Ditto, in the OpenVMS world FTP is the only good way to obtain your
patches. FTP retains the file attributes while http doesn't, that
is very bad with VMS files.
Zane
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FTP has been deprecated. HTTP is a much better
protocol for file
transfers
I beg to differ. HTTP doesn't strike me as a protocol that is well
designed for general purpose binary file transfer.
But more to the point, I don't see ftp as being deprecated. Far from
it. It seems to be quite alive and well in the areas I frequent.