Since MPEX is not considered "cost effective" at our side, I use DSCOPY for
wildcarded local copy; don't even need to create a second session.

-dtd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tracy Pierce [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 8:30 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: possible ER: bytestream support for DSCOPY?
>
>
> I'm under the same impression, and it worries me a bit, as I quite
> habitually use NS er DS ? for multiple sessions on multiple
> boxes from one
> terminal (ok, it's a Windoze PC, and this same scenario is
> being used in 3
> separate copies of the R1 client).
>
> To what should I be accustoming myself instead?  (It's really
> quite handy to
> have 12 different sessions immediately available this way!)
>
> Tracy Pierce
>
> PS thanks for all the assistance with serial printer speed.
> Turns out we
> _could_ have bought a faster serial card, duh!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Donna Garverick [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 3:19 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: possible ER: bytestream support for DSCOPY?
> >
> >
> > Jon Diercks wrote:
> >
> > > It has been suggested to me that this would be a good
> > enhancement request.
> > > Any opinions from the list on the relative merit of
> > submitting an ER for
> > > this? Has the idea been considered and discarded before? Do
> > most sites just
> > > use frombyte/tobyte to get around the problem?
> >
> > i believe dscopy (and it's supporting software) is part of
> > the old/original
> > networking software.  i also believe that roughly translates
> > into 'only bug
> > fixes' :-)  several have suggested using ftp.  that's
> > probably the better
> > solution.          - d
> >
> > --
> > Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
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> >
> > "Unix _is_ user friendly.
> > It's just very selective about who its friends are.
> > And sometimes even best friends have fights."
> >
> > >>>MY opinions, not Longs Drug Stores'<<<
> >
>