Re: [LHA-misc] Line parsing routine

[Neil C. <nc...@ho...>]

Jay Hogg wrote:
> 
> At 11:46 AM 12/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >  > I'mm thinking to include a "standard download" in the agent document
> >  > something like this:
> >  >
> >  > DOWNLOAD type="start" addr="..." type="firmware|lir|voice|..."
> > encode="..."
> >  >            name="..." persistent="NO|yes" autoload="NO|yes"
> >  > DOWNLOAD type="data" srec="..."
> >  > DOWNLOAD type="done"  (it now gets loaded to the device)
> >  > DOWNLOAD type="abort"
> >
> >i think one would also want the ability to "upload".
> 
> Makes sense. It'll take some minor thinking because the "pull" from
> the target device will have to be done and converted but I believe
> this should be supported (Ocelot, SpeakEZ, Leopard, Napco).
> 
> Does the format look good?
> Now the bidirectional transfers are in the mix I think the terminoligy
> is basackwards. Switch to "PUT" and "GET" from the "user" of the
> agent point-of-view. Put=Send=Download. Get=Receive=Upload.

Adding a few more understandable words is not a problem. I always thought
set=send (from Server to Agent (daemon)) get=receive=monitor ... (from
Agent (daemon) to Server).

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