On 13 Sep 2014, at 9:16pm, Howard Chu <h...@symas.com> wrote: > Scott Robison wrote: > >> At the >> very least (and I suspect more) Commodore 8-bit DOS (which was embedded >> within a smart drive with its very own dedicated CPU & RAM) supported >> (essentially) sequential byte stream files (no random seeking for these!) >> and random access record oriented files (where the record size was set at >> file creation time). Man were those a pain in the backside to use. > > Now imagine writing an ftp client (or server) for one of these. I wrote both > for an IBM mainframe, way back when.
You could have just used KERMIT. Wait ... did KERMIT run on IBM mainframes ? <google> Hahahaha of course it did. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users