Subj : man's most serious activity is play
To   : Charles Blackburn
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Thu Oct 06 2022 19:09:18

Hey Charles!

 CB> im actually quite partial to zmodem8k and used to do a lot with
 CB> sealink.

For at least the last two decades - and then some - I have been using binkd for fidonet file transfers including official MSGs liked this one, although this particular point is using ssh to transfer to the mothership -> "Little Mikey's Brain", 1:153/7001.0.  It's ip address is in the regular nodelist.  It compares favourably to ftp transfers although I haven't tried lately as I currently don't have ftpd running on "Little Mikey's Brain".  That would be the winner if something like graphics is ever needed in fidonet exchanges.

Running 'file -b binkd' from a remote to "Little Mikey's Brain" yields;

  ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 4.4.0, stripped

 CB> saved my old man and me multiple 4+ hour (one way) drives just to
 CB> put a disk in and copy a new binary LOL

At that time had access to multiple remote 9-track tape drives.  They were roughly a half hour walk from where I lived at the time.  Anyhow the mainframe didn't have any compatible programs to copy to what passed for a PC back then.  However I could telnet from home but without actually bieng there to swap tapes and the such made living so close extremely attractive at the time.  Exabytes on Sparc stations changed the game for me and my usage of Linux later on brought it all together.

binkd fits into the scheme.

 CB> sealink version for SCO Openserver and that helped tremendously

I never played with SCO.  Solaris is where I cut my unix teeth ... in a time and a land far, far away.

Life is good,
Maurice

.... Fidonet 4K - Sweet Sixteen Penguins of the Apocalypse.
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