heath@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Robert Heath) (07/23/87)
I am looking for the source to a UNIX-based implementation of Network Independent File Transfer Protocol (NIFTP). NIFTP is used mainly in the UK (& New Zealand) to move files around X.25 networks. I am informed that Internet Protocol versions of NIFTP exist, but I am interested only in using the OSI Transport layer over X.25 version. My goal is to port NIFTP to an NCR TOWER running UNIX 5.2. I'd like to hear the opinion of any NIFTP users on how well it works and to discuss possible interconnection. I have the names of two other interested parties which I picked up from an earlier, unsuccessful posting to comp.sources.wanted. Thanks in advance. Robert A. Heath ncrcae!heath or heath@Columbia.NCR.COM NCR Dept 783 3325 W. Platt Springs Rd. W. Columbia, SC 29169 (803)-791-6492
Mills@UDEL.EDU (07/29/87)
Robert, So far as I know, Blue-Book NIFTP was implemented for TOPS-20 and LSI-11 Fuzzballs quite a while ago (circa 1980). When I did the Fuzzball one I started from a C-language program written at University College London. Since the guys that wrote that program have since left UCL, I suggest you contact Prof. Peter Kirstein, whose latest address can be found via WHOIS. With his approval, I can forward the source code, which I still have somewhere on an oxide plow. Dave