how well do u think cut and paste will work for a 1,2 or 10
gb file?
why bother continuing with the cut and paste idea when u can
simply email smaller files? and for slightly larger than
small files, u can (with a utility) split the file and email
the pieces. this is surely simpler than uuencoding and
cutting and pasting (even with some crude programmatical
automation)...
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From: "Morris, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 4:53 PM
Subject: Proposed solution to file transfer problem.
> I want to rewind a little.
>
> In the his post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] made a proposal
that could the
> the good enough solution many of us could live with. He
made several
> suggestions but the one I liked best requires a utility on
the server side
> and a utility on the client side. One utility reads a
file, turns it into a
> text format that will survive cut and paste (uuencode is
one possibility)
> and thens put this text representation onto the clipboard.
VNC already moves
> the clipboard from one side to the other. So at the other
end is another
> utility that reads the clipboard, decodes the text
representation and
> creates the file. The format can include permission data
etc.
>
> The user basically runs the utilities on first one system
and then the other
> and the file is transferred. It requires no extensions to
VNC because
> passing the clipboard back and forth is already supported.
That two step
> process is slightly awkward but I can easily live with it.
>
> There are design issues over the file format that would
need to be
> addressed. For example the header would need to be
powerful enough to be
> useful in Mac, UNIX and Windowz platforms. One might want
to specify a
> multiple file format. On systems that support it drag and
drop could be
> added. If it was done cleanly enough it the VNC team might
eventually
> consider bringing it inside.
>
> Does anyone else like this idea as much as I do?
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