Chrise Dunlop wrote:

 "Two colleagues of mine have heard a rumour, and I stress only a rumour,
that
Microsoft are redeveloping their FTP software and that future releases won't
be compatible with FTP on MPE."

If this is true, it is inconceivable to me that this could ever be a serious
problem.  FTP clients and servers that run on Microsoft OS's (or UNIX or
Linux for that matter) seem to be about as pervasive as SPAM.  Even if
Microsoft were to do this, one could simply choose from the myriad of open
source and/or free clients and servers.  What am I missing?  There must be
some subtle aspect of this that I'm not seeing.

Charles Finley
Transformix Computer Corporation
(760)-439-3146

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Subject: Future Microsoft and MPE FTP incompatibility?


 Two colleagues of mine have heard a rumour, and I stress only a rumour,
that
Microsoft are redeveloping their FTP software and that future releases won't
be compatible with FTP on MPE.  Clearly that would cause problems, with MPE
development frozen.  It sounds suprising for software relying on an internet
standard protocol, but not impossible.

Please can anyone confirm or (hopefully) refute this, and give any more
details?

Chris Dunlop.

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