Re: [SLUG] file transfer

From: Bill Ehlert (Ehlerts@SoftHome.net)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 11:29:38 EDT


Wow ED,

I used UUCP years ago too and remember that it did work to transfer files
over a dial-up modem but it gave us fits to install and keep it running. We
had telephone and communications problems that kept us very busy. Hope a
local implementation, without the telephone, will give better results.

Bottom line for me was ... UUCP was like an onion, you peal off a layer, and
you weep.

Bill

From: "Ed Centanni" <ecentan1@tampabay.rr.com>

| Ah... Don't any of you young whipper-snappers remember good ol' fashion
| UUCP -- a.k.a. Unix to Unix copy? Why, in the good ol' days(tm) we used
| to use it to cattle drive them thar longhorn files all over the country
| and across the room too. Gol-darn it!
|
| http://www.fisica.uson.mx/Linux/howto/UUCP-HOWTO.html
|
| Should work with just a NULL MODEM cable or adaptor. You can buy them
| at most places that sell serial cable and adaptors or roll your own with
| this info:
| http://www.loop-back.com/null-mod.html
|
| More complete serial info here: http://www.taltech.com/introserial.htm
|
| and lots about UUCP here: http://www.uucp.org/
|
| Most distros have uucp on the disk(s). Some install it as part of a
| minimal base system.
|
| Ed Centanni



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