Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!zswamp!root
From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Data range used by UUCICO?
Message-ID: <7096.27EED5B1@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 17:10:56 EST
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario

Jim Deitch (jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com ) wrote:

 >UUCP uses an 8 bit protocol.  If it didn't how could you 
 >copy a binary and run it?

   PLEASE don't tell me that you can't imagine being able to transmit a 
binary, intact, over a 7-bit connection... it's done frequently, using what 
might be described as a variation of the technique we use to transmit 
binaries over the 1-bit connections we call serial ports!
 

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