FTP upload site (Was: Re: List behaviour)

[Gene Buckle]

> On 20 Apr 2009 at 0:02, Jim Brain wrote:
>
>> 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.
>

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 
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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