Nathan Duehr wrote: > > On May 5, 2014, at 1:06 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> Hey, you puttin' down zmodem, man? The only one that picked up, if you >> lost the connection, from where it was, rather than starting new? Only >> rsync is that good.... >> <snip> >> The nerve of some people, puttin' down perfectly good software.... >> >> mark "that's right, when I get the 5.25" floppy drive working, >> to go through all my old ones, I need to copy Brief...." > > No way man... ZModem rocks. :-) Heck of a lot easier than remembering how > to stuff a binary through uuencode so you can pipe the thing back to your > console to grab a file over telnet! LOL! Never used the uuencode routine - I zipped it first. But I did have to retire my modem - it was a 56k... but an IDE interface. I'm just worried 'bout my next m/b upgrade (in five years or so, just did it the beginning of the year), because I've got a perfectly good big flatbed scanner... SCSI, pci card. THEY do try to lock down the 'Net... there was a Net before there was a Web, and a *lot* of it was servers (sorry, minicomputers) dialing each other up every hour or day.... The joys of the original design specs for the 'Net. mark