[124756] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Williams)
Sun Apr 4 17:39:18 2010
In-Reply-To: <201004042043.o34KhN5W077445@bartok.nlnetlabs.nl>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 14:38:46 -0700
From: Bruce Williams <williams.bruce@gmail.com>
To: Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@nlnetlabs.nl>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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@nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
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> =A0 =A0It was, for at least some versions (V2 and later?), if the
> =A0 =A0intermediate site(s) allowed execution of the uucp command. 25
> =A0 =A0years on the brain is fuzzy on the details ...
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> =A0 =A0You could certainly add uux and uux to the list of legal remote
> =A0 =A0commands, but I confess that my memory is also dim about whether
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> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0uucp file a!b!c
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> =A0 =A0would be translated automatically. =A0It 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.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0jaap
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>
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- Bruce Williams
