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From: jeh@simpact.uucp (Jamie Hanrahan, jeh@crash.cts.com)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Descriptions needed of uucp protocols
Message-ID: <358@simpact.uucp>
Date: 7 Sep 89 18:54:31 GMT
Organization: Simpact Associates, San Diego CA
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A long time ago in this newsgroup, a partial list of uucp protocols was
posted.  It included

	'f'	X.25 PAD protocol (source for this has been posted to the net;
		it assumes a 7-bit, error-free channel)
	'g'	regular packet protocol
	'x'	simple protocol (???)
	't'	written by Rick Adams, primarily for bsd/tcp-ip, usable for
		any error-free channel with its own flow control	
	'd'	similar to 't', written about the same time by the HDB/BNU
		people
	'k'	similar to 'f' for 7-bit in-band flow control channels

I want to add a few protocol options to DECUS uucp (uucp for VMS).  
From these sketchy descriptions, both t/d and k sound interesting.  (I need
'k' for dialup links over which xon/xoff flow control can't be disabled, and
I need 't' or 'd', or something similar, to run over DECnet.)  

Can anyone send me or provide pointers to descriptions of these?  (I could 
of course invent my own protocols, but I'd much rather not!) 

Please reply to me directly; I will post a summary of the replies.  Thank you.

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA
Chair, VMSnet [DECUS uucp] and Internals Working Groups, DECUS VAX Systems SIG 
Internet:  jeh@simpact.com, or if that fails, jeh@crash.cts.com
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