From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8704 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2003 18:01:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8697 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2003 18:01:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hub.ott.qnx.com) (209.226.137.76) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Nov 2003 18:01:46 -0000 Received: from smtp.ott.qnx.com (smtp.ott.qnx.com [10.0.2.158]) by hub.ott.qnx.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA14557; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:16:04 -0500 Received: from catdog ([10.4.2.2]) by smtp.ott.qnx.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA13740; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:01:44 -0500 Message-ID: <046b01c3ad35$020accc0$0202040a@catdog> From: "Kris Warkentin" To: , "Ken Dyck" References: Subject: Re: [RFC] upload/download command Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:01:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00131.txt.bz2 I would say the most common meaning for upload is to push something onto a remote target and download means to pull something off a remote. Ie. "I just downloaded 10 GB of pr0n from that server." or "I just uploaded the virus to the mainframe." This is the sense in which we use the terms. cheers, Kris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Dyck" To: ; Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:22 AM Subject: RE: [RFC] upload/download command >Our QNX pdebug protocol supports an upload/download command. >This is handy >for putting binaries onto target system and getting back things like >corefiles. Out of curiosity, which way is up? In some circles, particularly in DSP development, which I am most familiar with (I'm not sure if it extends to the rest of the embedded community), the term 'download' usually refers to pushing data down onto the target from the host machine. In the internet world, on the other hand, the term is used to mean pulling some data down from a remote machine onto a local host. In what sense is the pdebug protocol using the terms? Ken