[ih] FTP RIP

[Carsten Bormann]

On 2020-09-28, at 14:46, John Day via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> Nothing special. The user opened a FTP user connection to each host, logged in to them, then using the Sock and PASV commands told one to retrieve and the other to store.

And, if raw transfer speed is of the essence, we are sometimes still doing the equivalent by sshing in to the two hosts and then using programs such as netcat (nc) to do the plumbing.  No FTP needed…  (But “screen" is quite useful.)

Grüße, Carsten