ftp archives disappearing?

[Zane H. Healy]

At 11:53 PM -0500 3/12/07, Jay West wrote:
>Eric wrote....
>>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.

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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