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From: wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: UUPC -- Has anyone figured out how to transfer files with it?
Message-ID: <3818@killer.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 15:50:15 GMT
References: <196@lcuxa.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul)
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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Keywords: UUPC, uucp

In article <196@lcuxa.UUCP> mike2@lcuxa.UUCP (M S Slomin) writes:
>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.

I guess the basic steps involved are as follows:

1. Use UUPC (rmail) to send mail to a remote site, then examine the files
   this generates in /usr/spool/uucp; paying special attention to the file
   names. You will have to make uu.exe inaccessible before you try this,
   otherwise it gets executed by rmail and the files will be deleted before
   you get control of the machine back to look at them.

2. Use UNIX mail on your UNIX machine to send mail to a remote site, and 
   examine the files in /usr/spool/uucp; again paying attention to the file
   names.

3. Carefully observe the differences and similarities between the UUPC-generated
   files and the UNIX generated files.

4. Transfer a file to a remote system with uucp on your UNIX machine, and
   examine the files this generates in /usr/spool/uucp.

5. Transfer a file from a remote system with uucp on your UNIX machine, and
   examine the files this generates in /usr/spool/uucp.

6. Write a program which will accept the same args as uucp, and generates
   the same files as uucp, BUT WITH THE SAME DIFFERENCES as between UNIX mail
   files and UUPC mail files.

7. The last thing this program should do is spawn or exec uu.exe to actually
   do the transferring.

I was going to do this myself in September, but then I got Microport UNIX
up on my AT, so I never bothered.
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