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From: fenner@jazz.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.dcom.modems,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Data range used by UUCICO?
Keywords: uucico
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.234046.915@ecl.psu.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 03:40:46 GMT
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In article <1991Mar24.195246.11250@jadpc.cts.com> jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) writes:
|UUCP uses an 8 bit protocol.  If it didn't how could you copy a binary
|and run it?

I dunno.  How can you copy a binary using Kermit and run that?  Kermit uses
a 7 bit protocol (if you ask it to.)

The UUCP g protocol requires an 8-bit datapath.  There exist other UUCP
protocols which do not require an 8-bit data path (i.e. the f protocol).
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