Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:1449 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:4082 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!ucsd!ucsbcsl!comdesign!pst From: pst@comdesign.uucp (Paul Traina) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: UUCP Over TCP/IP (why?) Message-ID: <387@comdesign.UUCP> Date: 14 Jul 88 21:53:13 GMT References: <908@dsacg3.UUCP> Followup-To: poster Distribution: all Organization: Network Equipment Technologies, Santa Barbara Lines: 20 Pardon my ignorance, but I'm confused about running uucp over TCP links. My question is why? The ftp/smtp/bsmtp interface seems much better for handling files & mail, and for those who run it, the rsh interface seems better than uux. So, I ignorantly ask, why do some folk run uucp over TCP? There must be some sort of intelligent reason it was added...(?) My only guess would be for folks running TCP terminal servers hooked into dial-in/dial-out modems .. the remote site dials into the modem, goes via tcp to the host, and runs uucp as if the modem was direct-connected to the host. Since I don't run 4.3 myself (Sun, where are you? Get real.) I don't have the benefit of a 4.3 doc set to explain why I want TCP/UUCP. -- work: home: comdesign!pst@pyramid.com pst@ai.ai.mit.edu {uunet|pyramid}!comdesign!pst ...!ucbvax!ucsbcsl!nessus!pst pst@sbitp.bitnet