Importing binary files without removable storage nor non-bundled software (was: TKermitFTP - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Jan 2005

On Jan 6 2005, 12:05, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
...
  On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Steve Thatcher wrote:

 > the only reason Microsoft would not add binary transfer capability as an
...
  > integral part of early DOS is that the people
that needed it were in a
...
  > small minority. It made no business sense to
include features that they
...
  > believed that most people really didn't need.
Later in DOS, they did
...

 What?  It seems to me they had to do more programming work to prevent
 binary copying to the serial port. 
No, actually much less.  To make binary transfers work, they'd have had
to change the already-existing methods that they had.  To prevent them,
they only had to add an error message and add one more case to a test
for a command-line switch.

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