From: "Kris Warkentin" <kewarken@qnx.com>
To: "Andrew Cagney" <cagney@gnu.org>
Cc: <gdb@sources.redhat.com>, "Ken Dyck" <Ken.Dyck@dspfactory.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] upload/download command
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <069801c3ade5$4492c010$0202040a@catdog> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FB98D20.8070209@gnu.org>
> > 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.
>
> Interesting, I was thinking of the exact reverse. Looks like another
> up/down problem. Are there other terms? FTP's "put" and "get"?
I think that put and get would be fine since everyone knows ftp. I wouldn't
want to ruffle anyone's feathers by trying to change their definition of up
and down....
;-)
Kris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-18 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-17 16:22 Ken Dyck
2003-11-17 18:01 ` Kris Warkentin
2003-11-18 3:08 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-18 15:03 ` Kris Warkentin [this message]
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2003-11-17 15:18 Kris Warkentin
2003-11-17 15:26 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-11-17 15:34 ` Kris Warkentin
2003-11-17 15:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-11-17 15:51 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-17 15:42 ` Andrew Cagney
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