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From: time@tbomb.ice.com (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: master mode only for uucico (question)
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Date: 5 Feb 91 13:56:32 GMT
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In article <1991Feb04.211030.5635@chinet.chi.il.us>, les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> The REQUEST option applies to either inbound or outbound calls and
> determines whether you will allow their requests to be handled
> (i.e. in slave mode).  The SENDFILES option is only significant
> for inbound calls (according to LOGNAME) and determines whether
> you will send work you have already queued on this connection or
> wait until you call them.

I know it took me several times of reading this to realize that Les
was saying what I was thinking. To make it more blunt for persons
like myself, what Les was saying here is that UUCP allows a host to
both send a file (S command) and request a file (R command).

The send and request commands can be executed in either call out or
call in cases, but a given host only *services* requests in SLAVE mode.
The requestor is of course in MASTER mode.

This way, my machine can call your machine and say "I am requesting
file FILENAME please send it now". I do not need to execute a uucp
command on the other host. The REQUESTS=yes/no entry in the
permissions file determines if the host is allowed to make such
requests.

tim.

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