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From: honey@doom.ifs.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
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Subject: Re: How efficient/fast is uucp?
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Date: 28 Aug 90 21:15:18 GMT
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jeh@dcs.simpact.com writes:
>a TB in g-spoof mode  not only
> "knows about" the data link level, it looks for and interprets the "messages"
> (S, SY, CY, etc.) that mark the beginning and end of a file transfer.  It has
> to, because it has to know to flush its buffers and prepare for line
turnaround
> when the sending system sends the last packet of a file. 

no, no, no, the trailblazer spoof code doesn't know anything about the
format of uucp's upper layer protocol.

	peter