From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 2 2:23:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3C2637B407 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 02:23:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15658; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:53:28 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011002110750.B24680@cicely20.cicely.de> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 18:53:27 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Bernd Walter Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory Cc: Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Lyndon Nerenberg , Julian Elischer Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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