[ih] Re: This history of "talk"

[Dave Crocker]

John,

Friday, December 20, 2002, 5:21:28 AM, you wrote:
>>it was the FTP
>>commands ("Send to Terminal" and "Sent to Terminal or else Mail") that I
>>meant to cite.

John> There were two mail commands in FTP.  MAIL sent the mail on the 


RFC# 737, K. Harrenstien,31 October 1977, "FTP Extension: XSEN":
                          
   XSEN -- Send to terminal.
   XSEM -- Send, Mail if can't.
   XMAS -- Mail And Send. (couldn't resist this one)

d/
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