[comp.protocols.tcp-ip] Search for TCP-UUCP

ccc1@cseg.uucp (Chris C. Corke) (09/18/88)

I am looking for a UUCP program which will run under TCP-IP on internet, 
instead of via phone line.

08071TCP@MSU.BITNET (Doug Nelson) (10/08/88)

> I am looking for a UUCP program which will run under TCP-IP on internet,
> instead of via phone line.

Why do you need/want UUCP?  RCP exists for exactly this purpose.

Doug Nelson
Computer Laboratory
Michigan State University

dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) (10/12/88)

(Doug Nelson) writes:
> > I am looking for a UUCP program which will run under TCP-IP
> > on internet,
> > instead of via phone line.
> 
> Why do you need/want UUCP?  RCP exists for exactly this purpose.
> 

RCP is for LAN use, and doesn't provide queueing capabilities.

What if your APPLICATION SOFTWARE wanted to send a file to a remote,
but the transmission link is down?  RCP would immediately fail.  With UUCP
it would sit in the queue until the link is brought back up, and the
cico daemon kick started.

We use UUCP over TCP/IP over Ethernet.  Our vendor supplied us with a
outbound virtual tty device.

Say the device is /dev/ttyT8...

typing $ cu -s9600 -l/dev/ttyT8 dir

would connect you to the device, then enter a host name in
/etc/hosts...

the virtual tty device then creates a rlogin session with the host
you entered (which is not echoed), and you magically get a login:
prompt.  With this approach it is trivial to get uucico to place
an outbound call.
-- 
Dave Arnold (dave@arnold.UUCP)
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