mike2@lcuxa.UUCP (M S Slomin) (04/13/88)
I have a simple question that, I suspect, will generate a complex answer: Last year (and recently), sources and executables were distributed for UUPC. I have the executables for the IBM-PC, and the somewhat meager documentation. Recently, I thought I'd try to use this beast to do anonymous uucp transfers from the several sites that maintain publicly accessible Usenet archives. (Our system has an administrator-controlled Systems file, and it is a somewhat major undertaking to get another system added to it.) I quickly discovered that I haven't the foggiest notion of how to do this, because it is uucp that normally takes care of file transfers, and not uucico (which uupc.exe apparently emulates) -- at least so far as I can determine. The docs for uucico do not indicate that there is an argument for specifying files for transfer, the way uucp works, e.g., uucp site!/files/ mysite!~/myname/ Neither do the docs for uupc.exe. The best I can figure is that uupc.exe looks for some spooled file to be transferred to the called system to get it to do a uucp back while the connection remains up. But, what's the file? and its format? Has anyone worked this? I'll summarize and post any informative responses I receive. Thanks in advance. Mike Slomin bellcore!lcuxa!mike2
piet@ruuinf.UUCP (Piet van Oostrum) (04/14/88)
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.9 of Mon Mar 21 1988 on ruuinf (hcx/ux) Uucp, uucico, uux use command files to describe the work to be done by uucico. The files are described in the Unix documentation Uucp Implementation Description, D.A. Nowitz -- Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht Budapestlaan 6, P.O. Box 80.012, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands Telephone: +31-30-531806 UUCP: ...!mcvax!ruuinf!piet
wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul) (04/14/88)
In article <196@lcuxa.UUCP> mike2@lcuxa.UUCP (M S Slomin) writes: >The docs for uucico do not indicate that there is an argument for >specifying files for transfer, the way uucp works, e.g., > uucp site!/files/ mysite!~/myname/ > >Neither do the docs for uupc.exe. The best I can figure is that >uupc.exe looks for some spooled file to be transferred to the >called system to get it to do a uucp back while the connection >remains up. But, what's the file? and its format? > >Has anyone worked this? I'll summarize and post any informative >responses I receive. Thanks in advance. I guess the basic steps involved are as follows: 1. Use UUPC (rmail) to send mail to a remote site, then examine the files this generates in /usr/spool/uucp; paying special attention to the file names. You will have to make uu.exe inaccessible before you try this, otherwise it gets executed by rmail and the files will be deleted before you get control of the machine back to look at them. 2. Use UNIX mail on your UNIX machine to send mail to a remote site, and examine the files in /usr/spool/uucp; again paying attention to the file names. 3. Carefully observe the differences and similarities between the UUPC-generated files and the UNIX generated files. 4. Transfer a file to a remote system with uucp on your UNIX machine, and examine the files this generates in /usr/spool/uucp. 5. Transfer a file from a remote system with uucp on your UNIX machine, and examine the files this generates in /usr/spool/uucp. 6. Write a program which will accept the same args as uucp, and generates the same files as uucp, BUT WITH THE SAME DIFFERENCES as between UNIX mail files and UUPC mail files. 7. The last thing this program should do is spawn or exec uu.exe to actually do the transferring. I was going to do this myself in September, but then I got Microport UNIX up on my AT, so I never bothered. -- Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101 UUCP: ihnp4!killer!dcs!wnp ESL: 62832882 INTERNET: wnp@EESDES.DAS.NET or wnp@dcs.UUCP TLX: 910-280-0585 EES PLANO UD One Austrian's Opinion: Waldheim must go!