File Request

1. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one BBS

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.

2. The act of getting a copy of a file by using the File

Request option of the BBS mailer.

[Jargon File]

(1995-01-05)