Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 18:53:27 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory Message-ID: <XFMail.20011002185327.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20011002110750.B24680@cicely20.cicely.de>
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On 02-Oct-2001 Bernd Walter wrote: > But UUCP is also independend from an IP connection and can run on > nearly every bidirectional communication channel - even loosy. > And UUCP restarts a dropped transmission exactly where it stopped > and doesn't try to retransmit the complete message. > > There are still uses for UUCP. > E.g. I'm doing printing over UUCP from my notebook. I'm not saying there aren't, just curious as to what it gets used for :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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