From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 8 16:40:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11986 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 16:40:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11940 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 16:39:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.127]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29694; Fri, 8 May 1998 16:39:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA00767; Fri, 8 May 1998 16:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805082339.QAA00767@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: Any one still use UUCP? In-Reply-To: <199805082155.RAA00455@stratos.net> from "drifter@stratos.net" at "May 8, 98 05:55:15 pm" To: drifter@stratos.net Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 16:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to drifter@stratos.net: > > ( I'm not sure this belongs in -questions, so I thought -chat would be > appropriate. If not, I apologize. ) > > Just out of curiosity, I know that FreeBSD (and UNIX) have a > series of "UUCP" commands that transfer files and even run programs > remotely over phone lines _not_ using the internet. > I got kind of curious about UUCP and am doing some light reading of > old AT&T documents about it. I got the impression that UUCP was really the > only way to go in the dark ages before the Internet was as wide-spread > as it is today. I probably got the wrong impression, but I am wondering > if UUCP is an old hold-over from earlier times whose days are numbered > or if it is still in wide use today -- and if so, why? > I'm not so sure I want to splurge for ORA UUCP right now, since > I don't think I'd be doing a lot with it any way. (I don't think there > are "public" UUCP cites to experiment with :) ) > So, is UUCP a dying art? Is it that some places just don't have > access to the Internet or an Ethernet, but they can arrange for UUCP? > Or is there some advantage to UUCP that I am not aware about? You probably should copy -questions with this, but to answer your question as far as I can, yes, people are still using uucp. I've used it for more than a dozen years and still would if the sysadmins at work would set it back up. (I have sendmail set up for IP over UUCP.) As telecommunication links get cheaper, things-uucp will probably go extinct in another decade. Sooner here in the States. Not everyone has a dedicated dial-up; or has ppp//slip through an ISP. How many people are still using uucp: dunno. gary > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message