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From: skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: What is this UUPC stuff?
Message-ID: <1537@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Nov-87 01:26:44 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 15 01:26:44 1987
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Reply-To: skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam)
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Organization: The UUPC Development Team, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Keywords: UUPC Questions Answers
Summary: Some answers.
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In article <699@rlgvax.UUCP> dennis@rlgvax.UUCP (Dennis.Bednar) writes:

> One question: Is UUPC a version of UUCP that runs on the IBM-PC?

Yes, but it runs on other types of computers as well.

> Is UUPC only to be used interactively to send files between your
> UNIX mainframe and your PC (I would imagine that you use it much
> like kermit, you start up a terminal emulator program that allows
> you log into UNIX via the PC serial com port, then start up a remote
> uucico program on UNIX, then tell the local program to start chatting
> with the UNIX uucico program, to do the file transfer

No, it works in "batch" mode like the uucico in standard UUCP.

> Some overviews on UUPC please?

One will be posted in a separate article soon.

...Sam
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