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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: help with uucp needed
Message-ID: <190@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 91 22:22:16 GMT
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shawn@marilyn.UUCP (Shawn P. Stanley) writes:

>Perhaps one uux along the route is "broken".  It has to be able to send
>a file more than one hop.  Another consideration is that many flavors of
>uucp won't send a file greater than a certain size; you might try splitting
>it up into pieces and combining them on the receiving end.

	No, nothing is broken! Uucp file transfers involving more than two
hosts is theoretically possible, but such transfers are supported on  
few platforms, provided permission is granted. The means of granting such
permission varies between platforms and implementations. Given the number
of hops between the original poster's source and destination systems, the
likelihood that all would accommodate is virtually nil. Lucky for us all,
given the security implications alone.