Neanderpundit

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Get your damned nomenclature right.

When I’m standing at a terminal and transferring a file from an external node to my terminal, that is a download. When I’m transferring a file from the terminal to the external node, that is an upload. When I’m transferring a file from one node to another, that is a transfer. Got it?

Instead, when I transfer a file from machine A to machine B, you call that an upload. But when I transfer a file from machine A to machine C, you call that a download. When I transfer a file from machine C to machine A it’s an upload again, but from machine C to machine B it’s a download. And when I transfer a file from machine A or machine B to the terminal, its an upload, but from machine C to the terminal, it’s a download. And of course the converse is true.

What?

Anyway, I get that this was a simpler- er, more complex time, and you had to fight with strange protocol like RS423, and serial networks are never simple, but at least stick to one pattern, futhuchrissakes. I have to have a cheat sheet to get anything done.

Oh, and thanks for PARTIALLY disabling the floppy drives so they spin but don’t read. Took half a day to figure THAT one out.