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• FTP: /F-T-P/, *not* /fit'ip/ 1. [techspeak] n. The File Transfer Protocol for transmitting files between systems on the Internet.
  2. vt. To {beam} a file using the File Transfer Protocol....
• File Request [FidoNet] 1. n. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one FidoNet system automatically dials another and snarfs one or more files.
  Often abbreviated `FReq'; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet....
• File Request: [FidoNet] 1. n. The {FidoNet} equivalent of {FTP}, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and {snarf}s one or more files.
  Often abbreviated `FReq'; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet....
• ape vt. 1. To screw someone or something, violently
  in particular, to destroy a program or information irrecoverably....
• ape: vt. 1. To {screw} someone or something, violently
  in particular, to destroy a program or information irrecoverably....
• File Attach [FidoNet] 1. n. A file sent along with a mail message from one FidoNet to another.
  2. vt. Sending someone a file by using the File Attach option in a FidoNet mailer....
• File Attach: [FidoNet] 1. n. A file sent along with a mail message from one BBS to another.
  2. vt. Sending someone a file by using the File Attach option in a BBS mailer....
• Whenever somebody gives you a spec for some new technology, if you can't understand the spec, don't worry too much.
  Nobody else is going to understand it, either, and it's probably not going to be important....
• hop 1. n. [common] One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network.
  On such networks (including UUCPNET and FidoNet), an important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path between them, which can be more significant than their geographical separation....