Jay Curry wrote: > > Talk has no built in mechanism for sending files. You may co-ordinate > with the person you are talking with, and send a binary file via > uuen/decode, or xxen/decode, however you can just as easily do that in > Jabber.
Of course it would need to be encoded in Jabber. Problem is there is a file size limit in jabber. Packets can only be so long. So right now you can't just as easily do it. Also, you don't want some huge packet anyway > I would be surprised if you could not go through your services file and > find a dozen or so protocols that can't be used to transfer binary > files. Off the top of my head, I don't think it can be done with > ntp, echo, discard, daytime, netstat, qotd, chargen, ftp (ftp-data is the > protocol that transfers file in the ftp protocol) time, rlp, whois, or > re-mail-ck, Hmm, well of course echo and discard work fine on binary data, assuming you choose construct the send and recv functions correctly. But except for ftp I don't think any of these are used as a a means of transfering generic data. From what I have gleened from the jdev list is that Jabber is supposed to be a generic backbone service, otherwise why is there any discussion on file transfer? --Tom Jackson _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
