...on Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:46:01AM -0500, Graham Toal wrote: > Back in the old days when the only access to a system was > by a modem to a login prompt, and there was no networking > available to make things easy, the only way to get a > binary on to a machine was to somehow enter it from the > keyboard (or equivalent, eg pulling it in via tip's ~ escapes)
Ok, that was well before my time then :) I remember transferring binaries through a non 8-bit clean dialup pad with kermit, but that's another program you wouldn't want to have on a secure host. It did get me around a lot of restrictions the admins thought they had placed on the system, though... Alex.
