What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?

Sun Apr 4 19:18:18 UTC 2010

On Apr 4, 2010, at 3:08 16PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

>> File transfer wasn't multihop
> 
> It was, for at least some versions (V2 and later?), if the intermediate site(s) allowed execution of the uucp command. 25 years on the brain is fuzzy on the details ...

You could certainly add uux and uux to the list of legal remote commands, but I confess that my memory is also dim about whether

	uucp file a!b!c

would be translated automatically.  It has indeed been a while...

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb