file request

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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)