Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!egisin
From: egisin@watmath.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UUCP over X25 on Sun 3
Message-ID: <18341@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 88 19:38:46 GMT
References: <287@tauros.UUCP> <19772@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <19772@pyramid.pyramid.com>, csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
> The biggest problem you'll have in Luxembourg is that Sun's UUCP does not have
> the 'f' protocol. This is a seven-bit, printable-ASCII-only, streaming, non
> packetized uucp protocol that is a must over international X.25 links. If you

I think there is also an 'x' protocol, which uses X.25 directly
and can use all 8 bits.  'f' was designed for use over X.2[89],
which has the 7 bit restriction.

> I am amazed that Sun does not yet support UUCP/X.25. While there are only a
> few sites in the USA that use UUCP/X.25 extensively (uunet, pyramid, hplabs,
> maybe two or three more), it is almost _de_rigeur_ in Europe and Canada. Maybe

Not in Canada. Trailblazers over phone lines are much cheaper than Datapac,
the national X.25 carrier. And Bell has evening discounts.