pratt%Navajo@SU-Score (02/01/83)
Those of us lucky enough to have modems and terminals at home are used to the electronic-commuting concept, that of not having to commute physically to the office to get work done there. However I recently ran into the following bizarre twist on this concept. I have a Sun running Unix at home to which I have attached the modem I used to use with my terminal, in order to take advantage of uucp. One does this by providing a general dialup-and-login capability to that machine so that other machines can call you and log in as "uucp." I thought I had no use for the general capability beyond its uucp application, but recently I was at work and needed to work on something on my machine at home. I couldn't conveniently go home since I had an appointment at work later that day, but I happened to have left my home machine turned on that day, so I logged into a machine at work with an autodial capability, dialled out to my home, logged in there, and started working. For a moment I had a strange feeling, as though I was sitting at home logged into a machine at work, but with my work furniture and view transplanted to my home. Anyone else tried reverse electronic commuting? Vaughan