Revision of the Mail Box Protocol

The file transfer committee met and discussed the Mail Box Protocol RFC 221, NIC 7612. The potential utility for the mechanism was confirmed and a couple of changes suggested. We first give the changes and then restate the Protocol. CHANGES 1) The Mail Box Protocol is only to allow ASCII stings of text formatted for a network standard line printer rather than allowing other data types. 2) A new command is to be added to the File Transfer Protocol called "Append With Create" which appends to a file if the file exists, and creates a file if it does not exist. 3) The standard path name for the mailbox is to be, using conventional metalanguage symbols, "MAIL" ("PRINTER"/) is the ASCII GS, octal 035. The semantics of the above are the following: is a NIC IDENT "MAIL" "PRINTER" would be interpreted by the receiving site as meaning Append With Create the transmitted file to a bulk mail file to be printed or directly output it to a printer. "MAIL" would be interpreted to mean either [Page 1]