[ih] FTP RIP

[John Day]

And the impetus for one of the great Padlipskyisms!

When the discussion in an FTP meeting turned to the BYTE command. (The BYTE command essentially set the ‘word size’ for the file.)  Someone asked a question along the lines of “So what happens if I STORe a file with a BYTE size of 23 and RETRieve it with a BYTE size of 17.

Padlipsky sitting in the far corner of the room, piped up, “Sometimes when changing apples into oranges, you get lemons!”

Everyone agreed that was the right answer.  ;-)

John

> On Sep 27, 2020, at 17:14, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> On 9/27/2020 1:22 PM, John Levine via Internet-history wrote:
>> It's an OK article
> 
> 
> By measures of meaningful deployment, "so old it predates email" is incorrect.
> 
> And "at the beginning, actually played the role of an email client" is incorrect.
> 
> And "for four years, FTP was technically email of sorts." was wrong on two counts.  First, it was for 10 -- arguably more -- years.  Second the "of sorts" is wrong.
> 
> And while Abhay was the editor, it was a committee effort.
> 
> d/
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