Re: documenting rsync, or, what are we here for anyway? (was: Re: what is rsync)

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 27 November 2020 20:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: documenting rsync, or, what are we here for anyway? (was: Re: what is rsync)
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In article <C0FCEC98-B6CD-4F35-BA09-428732ADFDAF@strayalpha.com>,
Joseph Touch  <touch@strayalpha.com> wrote:
>> Does FTP do multiplexing?  How?  Which RFC?
>
>Yes; it opens a connection per exchange and let’s IP multiplexing do its job.

Web browsers were doing multiple http requests in parallel in the
1990s. I said something about it in an early edition of Internet for
Dummies.

This doesn't strike me as a particularly interesting aspect of FTP.


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