From 4bfd864f10b68b71482b35c818559068ef8d5797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Voss Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:54:24 +0100 Subject: doc: Add RFC documents --- doc/rfc/rfc480.txt | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/rfc/rfc480.txt (limited to 'doc/rfc/rfc480.txt') diff --git a/doc/rfc/rfc480.txt b/doc/rfc/rfc480.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8902cf4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/rfc/rfc480.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ + + + + + + +Network Working Group James E. White +RFC #480 SRI-ARC +NIC #14949 8 March 73 + + + Host-Dependent FTP Parameters + +This memo is in response to (and support of) one of the points raised by +Bob Braden (RTB) of UCLA-CCN in RFC #430, "COMMENTS ON FILE TRANSFER +PROTOCOL" (see -- 13299,), namely that raised in Section D., "Site- +Dependent FTP Parameters". + +The NIC has been confronted with similar problems (and tentatively +decided upon similar solutions) in designing mechanisms which would +enable a user to use FTP to retrieve from the NIC, in sequential form, a +VIEW of some portion for an NLS tree-structured file. + +To be done without modification to FTP, this task requires the user to +communicate information -- a filename, a statement address, viewspecs, +and the name of a conversion algorithm -- to SRI-ARC's server FTP +process in a manner that is transparent to the user's user FTP process. + +We currently intend to require the user to embed this information in the +pathname of FTP's STOR and RETR commands by appending to a standard +TENEX filename, a field of the form: + + ;x [ / ] + +where identifies an arbitrary program to be dispatched by +SRI-ARC's server FTP process, with a pointer to the file being stored or +retrieved as an argument. is optional and, if present, is +also passed to the program. + +To store and retrieve NLS files in sequential form, we will require that + be 'NLS' and be of the form. + + [ T: ] [ S: ] [ V: + ] + +where each of the three items is optional, and any that appear are +separated by commas. + + + [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] + [ into the online RFC archives by Alex McKenzie with ] + [ support from GTE, formerly BBN Corp. 9/99 ] + + + + + +White [Page 1] + -- cgit v1.2.3