On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:09:59PM +1000, Chris Wells wrote: |On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Joel W Shea <[email protected]> wrote: |> On 27 August 2013 23:20, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: |>> Trivia question... anyone happen to know what protocol tip uses to |>> send files? |>> |>> Ie: when you do a ~> and it starts sending... what protocol is it |>>using? |> |> As alluded to by Andre's earlier reply, power of 'cat' enhanced |> serial I/O (i.e. 8N1) ... or is this a trick question? | |You could use Kermit/C-Kermit if you want all that legacy goodness
I have legitimately used uuencode/uudecode to snarf some (short, thankfully) binary files around when all I had was a serial console and no other way to get to the host (not even sz/rz in this case, although I have used that elsewhere too) sometimes knowing how to do stuff the Old Skool way is kinda useful ... Regards, Malcolm -- Malcolm Herbert [email protected]
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