Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!van-bc!sl 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 Lines: 20 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. -- Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca uunet!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice) 604-939-4768(fax)