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

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 ...
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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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> 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.
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>        jaap
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- Bruce Williams