Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!oddjob!ncar!gatech!rutgers!mailrus!b-tech!zeeff From: zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: UUCP Over TCP/IP (why?) Message-ID: <4624@b-tech.UUCP> Date: 15 Jul 88 14:18:22 GMT References: <908@dsacg3.UUCP> <387@comdesign.UUCP> Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) Distribution: all Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 27 In article <387@comdesign.UUCP> pst@comdesign.uucp (Paul Traina) writes: >Pardon my ignorance, but I'm confused about running uucp over TCP links. > >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. I've been doing this over a annex box using rlogin. The big problem seems to be that something (rlogin?) doesn't provide a 8 bit path so I have to use the uucp 'f' protocol. Since I'm coming in on a non error free modem and 'f' uses a block size of the whole file, this really isn't ideal (although it usually works ok). Does anyone have any suggestions? More info on what I want to do: Given that I have modems and uucp and no tcp/ip connections (or software), I want to send mail to a host that has tcp/ip connections but no modems or serial ports. There is a annex terminal server that can provide a modem/rlogin link. This seems like a common need for sites with many machines networked together and only a few modems. -- Jon Zeeff Branch Technology, uunet!umix!b-tech!zeeff zeeff%b-tech.uucp@umix.cc.umich.edu