======>>>> mark lewis, 1:3634/12 wrote:


 JW> but you are missing the important part... you are missing the
 JW> fact that you/we
 JW> used to run our terminals directly over the phone lines but
 JW> with today's
 JW> technology, they are being used as telnet terminals which
 JW> means that they have
 JW> to run encapsulated within the TCP/IP and telnet streams...


 JW> <<<====== end quote

damn... there you go stealing my words right outta my mouth again ;)

 JW> You're right - I did miss that. That's why I was asking in the
 JW> beginning "what am I missing?"

sorry... thought it was straight forward... 'specially since the original
article/message was talking about telneting ;)

 JW> Now that you mention the telnet aspect...you're probably
 JW> right - I dont' recall doing a telnet ul or dl prior to
 JW> windows....

yeah, many folk didn't... if they did, it was generally to a "*nix
prompt account"... in those cases, you'd do a "double
transfer" of a file... once from the remote machine to the machine you
were telneted in to and then you'd run sz (send zmodem) on the telneted to
machine to send the file on to your local machine... but that's just a bit
different than what has to be done today cause in that case, the xfer is
not inside the telnet stream...

)\/(ark