Unpopularity of Elba

[Janina Sajka]

With the exception that some ftp implementations, especially on Win
systems, are flawed, this is correct.

ftp is ftp, whatever os is hosting it.


Luke Davis writes:
> From: Luke Davis <ldavis at shellworld.net>
> 
> Ann
> 
> I have personally used Linux to access Windows FTP servers.  It works
> fine, contrary to your statements below.  Most of the rest of your message
> is correct, but when something talks FTP over TCP/IP, it talks FTP.
> 
> Am I totally missing the boat here?
> 
> Luke
> 
> On Sat, 3 May 2003, Ann Parsons wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Actually Saqib, if you wanted to really understand the Elba and how it
> > works on a network, think of it as a Linux box, then you will
> > understand.  A linux box, unless you are using Samba, can not exchange
> > files with a Windows one using FTP.  On the other hand, the Windows
> > box can FTP to the Linux box with no trouble.  Why, because the Linux
> > box understands and can read communication From Windows to it.
> > Windows, on the other hand, can not read communication via FTP from a
> > Linux box.  Windows doesn't recognize Linux at all!  If, for example,
> > you have a Linux and Windows computer, i.e. a dual boot system, you
> > can mount the Windows partition/disk on the Linux side no trouble.
> > You can come and go within the windows environment, see all the files,
> > read them, and write to them, even.  On the other hand, Windows is
> > incapable of recognizing a linux partition.  As far as Billy-Boy is
> > concerned, his OS is egocentric and will remain so.  That is why your
> > Elba can not talk to your PC.  It isn't that the Elba is illiterate or
> > not bilingual, it's that your PC is!  Your PC, unless it is a Linux
> > box, is, as I have said, egocentric, monolingual, and parochial.  It
> > don't wanna talk to nobody who's different or who speaks funny or who
> > dresses funny or who uses a slash instead of a backslash.  I mean
> > *really* that is the end of uncooth, according to the high society of
> > Windowsdom.  Actually, if it ain careful, it's going to trip over its
> > feet if it keeps its nose in the air like that, Saqib! It's *not* the
> > Elba's fault!
> >
> > On the other hand, iffin you want to talk to a Linux box with it, you
> > can talk either direction.  Both Linux boxes can talk to each other
> > just peachy keen and wonderful
> >
> > Now I admit that five pounds is rather heavy, but shoot for the
> > convenience... Only thing it lacks and not for long, is GPS.
> >
> > Ann P.
> >
> >
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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