[ale] FTP files

[Jerald Sheets]

Fun fact...

I found out the other day (some of you guys may know this already) that SSH uses uudecode for key management pieces.  Go look at the header files that come with the source!

--j


On Jan 23, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>> I remember the old days when uucp was the way to go.   Also with the cu command you had ~get and ~put options.
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> Oh dear.. memories of UUCP. Once upon a time I built custom email gateways for CC:mail to UUCP and lots of other strange variations of UUCP to old non standardized pre-internet email systems.
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> At $work, we doing a lot of work with "smart grid" integration, which does a lot of store and forward file transfers, meters to collectors to communictions engines to.. databases.. and back down the chain as well. Every vendor seems to be re-inventing their own variation of what we would consider UUCP, without standards to bind the vendors together.
> It's frustrating, especially when the 20-something engineer at the metering company thinks he has invented store and forward communications...
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> I often think studying the history of technology is as important as
> the future of technology.
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> Spikey Haired Kid:
> Why do all these fixed length text files have to be so narrow with multiple lines and line format indicators?
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> Geezer:
> The data format originated on punch cards.
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> Kid:
> What's a punch card?
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