From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:26:16 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] BerkNet In-Reply-To: <14353.1416983329@cesium.clock.org> References: <14353.1416983329@cesium.clock.org> Message-ID: 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). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server." http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html (and check the home page whilst you're there)