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From: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: USENIX Board Studies UUCP
Message-ID: <16645@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 01:24:30 GMT
References: <287@usenix.UUCP> <1989Nov19.032449.7940@world.std.com> <2167@prune.bbn.com>
Reply-To: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Organization: Houston Public Access
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In article <2167@prune.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>First and foremest would be retro-fitting TCP/IP support into every machine
>out there that currently doesn't have it....

Actually it would be pretty easy to glue a loop around Phil Karn's
FTP support that understands uucp's queueing conventions.  Just open
an FTP session in each direction, entirely in user space if necessary,
and pass the contents of the spool/uucp/sysname directory back and
forth.  Then let uuxqt take over -- you don't even need to use NNTP
and SMTP initially, but this bootstraps us up to SLIP, so those who
are ambitious enough can slap additional services into their ka9q.

This seesm to me to be the obvious way to go.
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