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From: mike2@lcuxa.UUCP (M S Slomin)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: UUPC -- Has anyone figured out how to transfer files with it?
Message-ID: <196@lcuxa.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 22:00:30 GMT
Organization: Bell Communications Research
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Keywords: UUPC, uucp

I have a simple question that, I suspect, will generate a complex
answer:

Last year (and recently), sources and executables were distributed
for UUPC.  I have the executables for the IBM-PC, and the somewhat
meager documentation.  Recently, I thought I'd try to use this
beast to do anonymous uucp transfers from the several sites that
maintain publicly accessible Usenet archives.  (Our system has
an administrator-controlled Systems file, and it is a somewhat
major undertaking to get another system added to it.)  I quickly
discovered that I haven't the foggiest notion of how to do this,
because it is uucp that normally takes care of file transfers, and
not uucico (which uupc.exe apparently emulates) -- at least so far
as I can determine.

The docs for uucico do not indicate that there is an argument for
specifying files for transfer, the way uucp works, e.g.,
		uucp site!/files/  mysite!~/myname/

Neither do the docs for uupc.exe.  The best I can figure is that
uupc.exe looks for some spooled file to be transferred to the
called system to get it to do a uucp back while the connection
remains up.  But, what's the file? and its format?

Has anyone worked this?  I'll summarize and post any informative
responses I receive.  Thanks in advance.

				Mike Slomin
				bellcore!lcuxa!mike2