Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!beartrk!ceilidh!dnichols From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols) Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1 Subject: Re: 3B1 UUCP & Ethernet Message-ID: <1991Feb17.213141.5257@ceilidh.beartrack.com> Date: 17 Feb 91 21:31:41 GMT References: <1991Feb17.061443.3834@jack.sns.com> Organization: D and D Data, Vienna, VA. Lines: 23 In article <1991Feb17.061443.3834@jack.sns.com> steve@jack.sns.com (J. Steven Harrison) writes: >I have recently installed an Ethernet board (the AT&T WIN/3B stuff) into >my Unix PC. I am somewhat perplexed though. > >There does not seem to be a uucpd available on the system. Does this mean that >I cannot do uucp over the ethernet between other machines on the network? >If so has someone solved this or have an alternative solution. I am >interested in getting this machine to talk to a Sun running SunOS 4.1.1. > Why would you want/need uucp over the ethernet when you have smtp (thru sendmail), and ftp? This is not intended as a flame, I'm just wondering what special benefits that uucp over ethernet could offer that the other protocols don't. Good Luck DoN. -- Donald Nichols (DoN.) | Voice (Days): (703) 664-1585 D&D Data | Voice (Eves): (703) 938-4564 Disclaimer: from here - None | Email: --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---