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  • File Transfer Features on the chopping block

    From Digital Man@1:103/705 to All on Sun Mar 28 21:51:38 2021
    If you use one of these Synchronet file transfer features, speak now (or forever hold your peace):
    1. Bi-directional file transfers
    2. User-to-user file transfers
    3. Alternate file paths
    4. Temporary file menu/features

    If you don't know what these features are, then it's probably safe to say that you're not using them (and don't need to ask me what it is), but these features are likely going away in v3.19. The temporary file menu could (possibly will) be reimplemented as a JS module, but not immediately.
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  • From Fusion@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Mon Mar 29 12:52:26 2021
    Re: File Transfer Features on the chopping block
    By: Digital Man to All on Sun Mar 28 2021 09:51 pm

    2. User-to-user file transfers

    unrelated, but i tried to do this on another board the other day.

    of the lot that seems useful still.
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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Fusion on Mon Mar 29 13:03:10 2021
    Re: File Transfer Features on the chopping block
    By: Fusion to Digital Man on Mon Mar 29 2021 12:52 pm

    Re: File Transfer Features on the chopping block
    By: Digital Man to All on Sun Mar 28 2021 09:51 pm

    2. User-to-user file transfers

    unrelated, but i tried to do this on another board the other day.

    of the lot that seems useful still.

    Even though you can send file attachments with email?
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  • From Fusion@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Mon Mar 29 14:00:12 2021
    Re: File Transfer Features on the chopping block
    By: Digital Man to Fusion on Mon Mar 29 2021 01:03 pm

    Even though you can send file attachments with email?

    sorry, didn't know they were separate (don't think 2.30c had email attachments?)

    doesn't seem like you'd need the overlapping features then, yeah.
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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Fusion on Mon Mar 29 16:06:56 2021
    Re: File Transfer Features on the chopping block
    By: Fusion to Digital Man on Mon Mar 29 2021 02:00 pm

    Re: File Transfer Features on the chopping block
    By: Digital Man to Fusion on Mon Mar 29 2021 01:03 pm

    Even though you can send file attachments with email?

    sorry, didn't know they were separate (don't think 2.30c had email attachments?)

    v2 had email (and netmail) file attachments too.

    doesn't seem like you'd need the overlapping features then, yeah.

    The primary advantage to user-to-user file transfers (or file attachments to mail) was that a single file could be "sent" to multiple users without making copies of it.
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  • From Nelgin@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Wed Mar 31 03:24:51 2021
    Digital wrote:
    3. Alternate file paths

    Possibly. Let's discuss to confirm.

    If you don't know what these features are, then it's probably safe to say that you're not using them (and don't need to ask me what it is), but these features are likely going away in v3.19. The temporary file menu could (possibly will) be reimplemented as a JS module, but not immediately.

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Nelgin on Wed Mar 31 01:32:09 2021
    Re: Re: File Transfer Features on the chopping block
    By: Nelgin to Digital Man on Wed Mar 31 2021 03:24 am

    Digital wrote:
    3. Alternate file paths

    Possibly. Let's discuss to confirm.

    With the capabilities of modern operating/file systems, I don't think they're needed or even the appropriate solution to the problem.

    Are you using them?
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