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|    Maurice Kinal to Charles Blackburn    |
|    man's most serious activity is play    |
|    06 Oct 22 19:09:18    |
      MSGID: 1:153/7001.2989 633f27de       TZUTC: -0000       CHRS: CP866 2       Hey Charles!               CB> im actually quite partial to zmodem8k and used to do a lot with        CB> sealink.              For at least the last two decades - and then some - I have been using binkd       for fidonet file transfers including official MSGs liked this one, although       this particular point is using ssh to transfer to the mothership -> "Little       Mikey's Brain", 1:153/7001.0. It's ip address is in the regular nodelist. It       compares favourably to ftp transfers although I haven't tried lately as I       currently don't have ftpd running on "Little Mikey's Brain". That would be       the winner if something like graphics is ever needed in fidonet exchanges.              Running 'file -b binkd' from a remote to "Little Mikey's Brain" yields;               ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked,       interpreter /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 4.4.0, stripped               CB> saved my old man and me multiple 4+ hour (one way) drives just to        CB> put a disk in and copy a new binary LOL              At that time had access to multiple remote 9-track tape drives. They were       roughly a half hour walk from where I lived at the time. Anyhow the mainframe       didn't have any compatible programs to copy to what passed for a PC back       then. However I could telnet from home but without actually bieng there to       swap tapes and the such made living so close extremely attractive at the       time. Exabytes on Sparc stations changed the game for me and my usage of       Linux later on brought it all together.              binkd fits into the scheme.               CB> sealink version for SCO Openserver and that helped tremendously              I never played with SCO. Solaris is where I cut my unix teeth ... in a time       and a land far, far away.              Life is good,       Maurice              ... Fidonet 4K - Sweet Sixteen Penguins of the Apocalypse.       --- GNU bash, version 5.2.0(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)        * Origin: One of us @ (1:153/7001.2989)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/131 124/5016 129/305       SEEN-BY: 134/100 153/135 149 757 7001 7715 154/10 203/0 218/700 221/0       SEEN-BY: 221/6 226/30 227/114 229/110 111 112 113 206 317 400 424       SEEN-BY: 229/426 428 452 470 664 700 240/5832 266/512 280/464 5003       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 292/8125 301/1 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 341/66       SEEN-BY: 341/234 342/200 396/45 423/120 460/58 633/267 280 281 412       SEEN-BY: 633/416 418 712/848 770/1 3634/12       PATH: 153/7001 757 280/464 633/280 229/426           |
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