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echo: os2prog
to: Rob Landley
from: Andrew Clegg
date: 1995-03-18 10:17:00
subject: TCP/IP, FTP & UUCODE

Hi, Rob.

-=> Rob Landley spaketh unto Andrew Clegg <=-

 RL> There's an RFC (really.  This sounds like a joke, and actually it is,
 RL> but it was given a real RFC number and is published with the rest of
 RL> them) on something called "avian packet protocol", where the TCP/IP
 RL> packets are printed out in hex and transported from site to site by
 RL> carrier pigeon.  This is described in mind-numbing technical detail.

Yes, I heard about that. RFC1149 -- "A Standard for the Transmission
of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers." Must get round to reading it so I
can put RFC1149 Compliant on all my programs.

Andrew.

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