From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27384 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2003 15:03:33 -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 27370 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2003 15:03:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hub.ott.qnx.com) (209.226.137.76) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Nov 2003 15:03:31 -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 KAA05161; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:17:44 -0500 Received: from catdog ([10.4.2.2]) by smtp.ott.qnx.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA30751; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:03:29 -0500 Message-ID: <069801c3ade5$4492c010$0202040a@catdog> From: "Kris Warkentin" To: "Andrew Cagney" Cc: , "Ken Dyck" References: <046b01c3ad35$020accc0$0202040a@catdog> <3FB98D20.8070209@gnu.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] upload/download command Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:03:00 -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/msg00143.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. > > 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