In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said: > Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:58:02 -0500 > > at 08:12 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >In the diachronic view, many strange things are possible. Suppose > >the archetypal MVS FTP client was written (in Pascal?) long before > >Unix System Services to do QSAM I/O to DD names INPUT and OUTPUT. > > Then it wouldn't comply with POSIX and X-OPEN. > AFAICT there's no POSIX nor X-OPEN specification for an ftp client, so there's nothing to comply with. Likewise, I doubt there's any RFC requirement for an FTP client, since RFCs specify the network interfaces, not the user interfaces.
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