On 02/25/10 13:14, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
What is the current vogue for distributing a collection of files
via Internet. What alternatives, and their pros and cons?
If your users can connect straight from their VM system to yours, you
Alas, I suspect that's out of the question.
can avoid having to package the files at all. Serve them by FTP (like
the Marist site), and use TYPE E and MODE B to transfer them in EBCDIC
Is that, like:
ftp://vm.marist.edu/academ:pipeline/eweb./
??? Firefox 3.0.17 refuses to deal with it, but I can get to
it in command line.
in block mode from one mainframe to the other. All you lose is the
timestamps.
Packages are nice:
o Yes, they do preserve timestamps.
o They associate things, so the recipient needn't pick files out of
a flat namespace. (Would it help if our sysadmin weren't too
old-fashioned to install SFS?)
Thanks,
gil
