What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?
Bruce Williams
williams.bruce at gmail.com
Sun Apr 4 21:38:46 UTC 2010
This is an example of the law that the number of replys is directly
propotional to the cluelessness of the post?
Bruce
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap at nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
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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 ...
>
> 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...
>
> Yup. The real work was done by uucico (using an x.21 type protocol
> implemented by Greg Chesson of EGREG fame if I remember correctly).
> UUCP and friends where front-ends for it and has been reimplemnted
> as the honeydanber version. Then there were the AT&T Basic Network
> Utilities version, Taylor uucp, the EUUG version etc. of these.
>
> jaap
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>
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