--- Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 02:45:33PM -0700, George > Bonser wrote: > > Look at the Linux package sendfile and the > preliminary draft of the RFC > > for the saft profocol. > > > > The way it works is this: > > > > I send a file to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Curious. The long-gone ACSnet (Australian Computer > Society network) > had a similar service, with binaries also named > fetchfile and sendfile. > One of the university systems I have access to still > has the binaries > installed, actually. I think the binaries came with > Sun3, originally. > > A search for "+acsnet +fetchfile" on altavista will > even tell you how to > get the X11R5 sources off ACSnet.
There is also a reference on the SAFT/sendfile site to Bitnet having this function so it apparently has "roots". G.S. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com