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From: rdg@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Rob Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: How do you do UUCP over the Ethernet with HP-UX 6.5?
Message-ID: <1080131@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Mar 90 00:35:10 GMT
References: <5634@fmeed1.UUCP>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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> > The vt/uucp stuff only works between HP machines.
> 
> It definitely makes interesting reading - I *do* have some HP machines
> I'd like to do this with.  However, my Concepts manual talks about
> setting this up in terms of old-style UUCP (L-vtdevices, L-devices,
> L.sys - needless to say, it doesn't work).  So, 2 questions:
> 
> 	1) Does anyone know how to set this up to HP machines using HDB
> 	   UUCP?

Naturally, substitute "Devices" for "L-Devices", and "Systems" for "L.sys",
etc. I don't know if it really works with HDB since I have never tried
it myself.

> 	2) Are there any plans to support this to non-HP machines in the
> 	   future?

Without risk of revealing any secret HP plans, I think I can state
emphatically that the facility known as "vt-uucp" will never, never,
ever work with non-hp machines. This is because "vt" is a proprietary
service, and will never appear on other vendor's machines.

This is not to say that it won't be possible for use uucp over lan-
that's just a small matter of programming.


Rob