20 Apr
2009
20 Apr
'09
1:42 p.m.
On 20 Apr 2009 at 0:02, Jim Brain wrote:
You know, there's this neat thing they used to use in the olden days for
transferring files between people. I think it was called a BBS. :)
Seriously though, I run a BBS called The Retro Archive that is available
24/7 over the net and supports both regular telnet and ssh. Because the
"standard" file transfer protocols like XMODEM, YMODEM and ZMODEM are
available, any computer no matter the vintage can connect to the system if
it has a serial port on it. Jim's tcpser program is the perfect thing for
stuff like this. tcpser is available for both Win32 and Linux systems and
may work on others.
You can find tcpser here:
http://www.jbrain.com/pub/linux/serial/
Win32 users that don't want to compile from source (Cygwin is used to
build under win32) just need to grab the tcpser.exe and cygwin1.dll files
It concerns me. Jay's already providing a
lot of free stuff, and
managing the list. There are hundreds of free binary hosting sites
online, I'd recommend people use those instead.
from the above link.
If there is interest, I'd be happy to set up a special transfer area for
you folks to use. It wouldn't require "validation" of the new user
account to reach. I can also enable FTP so those that want can reach the
files via that method once they create an account on the BBS.
g.
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