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

Mon Apr 5 01:51:11 UTC 2010

On Apr 4, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:

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> On Apr 4, 2010, at 3:08 16PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
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>>> File transfer wasn't multihop
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>> 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 ...
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> 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
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> 	uucp file a!b!c
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> would be translated automatically.  It has indeed been a while...
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IIRC, uucp file a!b!c did not work, only uucp file a!b.  Email, OTOH,
was roughly translated automatically to uucp {qf,df} b!{qf,df} and
the other side knew to unpack qf/df and do the right thing.

Owen