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		kotaKat 73 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text... > a few external systems, mostly by reading and writing text files to specific locations The joys of large business transactions handled by .txt files (or equivalent) over FTP (or equivalent). It almost feels… like digital fax, in a way.

FarmerPotato 72 days ago [–]

The joy of cron jobs sending files by ftp to the mainframe, which falls back to paging the programmer.

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