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From: roskos@csed-1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Is there, is there, a UUCP protocol manual?
Summary: The UUCP protocols *are* published
Message-ID: <251@csed-47.csed-1.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 15:02:32 GMT
References: <11238@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: IDA, Alexandria, VA
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Posted: Fri Jan 15 10:02:32 1988

In article <11238@brl-adm.ARPA>, mcvax!kernel!mjh@uunet.UU.NET (Mark J. Hewitt) writes:
> As far as I know, there is no UUCP protocol manual because the protocols
> are proprietary to AT&T.

I have always worried that AT&T considers the protocols proprietary, and thus
won't tell people details of them, but the protocols *are* published.  The
'g' packet protocol is published in a paper titled "Packet Driver Protocol"
by G. L. Chesson; the paper was supposedly handed out at a Usenix presentation
by Chesson several years ago, and an nroff source for it was published on
the mailing list about UUCP which is sent out by tanner@ki4pv in Florida.
The higher-level protocol (the one with the 'S', 'R', etc. records) was
published on the Usenet about 2 years ago by Chuck Wegryzyn.

However, the Chesson paper is not complete in that it doesn't give details
of how error handling, etc. works, it just gives general allusions.  (You will
find this out if you implement your own 'g' driver!)