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From: jack@mcvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: uucp source copyright status - IMPORTANT
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Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 09:46:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 30 09:46:56 1987
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In article <2495@felix.UUCP> zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon) writes:
>
>'Scuse me.  You're right, I "mispoke."  The point I was
>making is valid, however.  It should be easy to write a
>UUCP replacement using the Kermit protocol, which is well
>documented and understood.  The program could be given away
>for use under Minix.
>
At last! Someone who agrees with me!

This is something I've been suggesting to numerous people the last
couple of months, but the only result was a deafening silence.

The point is, why should we use those icky uucp protocols that are
hardly documented, and unused except in some proprietary sofware
(forgetting uulink and uuslave, for the moment).

The *only* things we need are a way to reach another system, and some
way to get files across to it (with a reasonable guarantee that they
will be the same after transmission:-).

This is *exactly* what most kermits are doing nowadays. Kermit is available
on any machine in the known universe, and if it isn't, it will be tomorrow.

The rest of the processing after the files have been transferred, like mailing
them off to where they should go, can be done by a 10 line shell script at
best, and a 100-200 line C program at worst.

Of course, you won't have sequence numbers and callback and all that stuff,
but do you *really* care? Just restrict micros to sending mail, and that's
all.
-- 
	Jack Jansen, jack@cwi.nl (or jack@mcvax.uucp)
	The shell is my oyster.