27 Nov
2014
27 Nov
'14
12:26 a.m.
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Erik E. Fair wrote:
I suspect that BerkNet's colon separator for
host:file was how the rcp
command got that syntax, and probably how ssh inherited it.
That could also explain why ACSnet's first incarnation also used a colon
separator (you'll see me as "dave:csu40" in some early AUUGN editions;
that's me at the University of NSW Computing Services Unit 11/40).
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