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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.   
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