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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: New UUCP Protocol (was: Re: Zmodem added to UUCP)
Message-ID: <6@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 89 06:55:23 GMT
References: <3217@ccnysci.UUCP> <240@tabbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <240@tabbs.UUCP> aris@tabbs.UUCP (Aris Stathakis) writes:
>From article <3217@ccnysci.UUCP>, by ciamac@ccnysci.UUCP (Ciamac Moallemi):
>I think it's about time someone made a new UUCP protocol with some of these
>features.  Especially Bi-directional transmission.  It has been done before

It's been done. It's called dialup SLIP. 

Seriously, running dialup SLIP gives you lots of different things. It's not
to hard to get. You then can run FTP, Telnet, SMTP, etc over it.

Hacking uucp to provide bi-directional file transfer would be virtually
impossible. It certainly wouldn't be uucp anymore. 

Far easier to use existing protocols and software. I originally hacked
together uupc from dsp so that people could send/receive mail and news to
personal computers. If I was doing it today I would concentrate on getting
dialup SLIP access.

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