Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: UUCP, Mail servers Message-ID: <8647@gollum.twg.com> Date: 14 Feb 91 23:47:21 GMT References: <21249@hydra.gatech.EDU> <8321@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 44 In article <8321@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes: >In article <21249@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0655b@prism.gatech.EDU (HAARBAUER) writes: >>Could someone tell me breifly what AmigaUUCP is and what it can do for me? > >UUCP stands for "Unix to Unix copy". It is a rusty, slow, old >procedure that Unix machines, many years ago, used to transfer files >back and forth. Ahem.. I get greater than 10KBaud between my A2000 (straight standard old processor) and the 386-clone-with-unix in my office. That's purty darn fast for over normal phone lines. But then if you try comparing it with with speeds we get on our ethernet ... (You didn't say what you were comparing against..) > For some reason, it is still widely used. Must be because 1) comes free with many many machines, and 2) it still does a very good job at what it was designed for; file transfers and command execution between intermittently connected systems. The features which UUCP provides are: file transfer command execution, optionally in with an associated file transfer capable of supporting many different transfer protocols within the same program, in case you have more mediums around than modems. later versions have a very high degree of security and can give differing capabilities to different UUCP neighbors. That is, "later versions" of the Unix UUCP. On top of this is built a worldwide electronic mail & conferencing network, that was in existance long before FidoNet first barked. Pretty darn good for a rusty old program, eh? David -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- MS-DOS ... The ultimate computer virus.