On 3/15/2022 12:54 PM, Steve Crocker wrote:
My nomenclature re uu* is fuzzy. I know there was a command to copy a
file from one Unix machine to another. I’m not clear on whether this
included routing to other machines or whether that was a higher level
protocol.
Steve
Trimmed.
The command was actually "uucp" :-) The "address" for the source and
destination was based on a Usenet path and included bangs (!) to
separate the non-domain host names.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.2?topic=u-uucp-command
Mike
ps - for clarification: The group of hosts linked via uucp was called
Usenet. UUNet was a commercial enterprise started by Rick Adams to
(originally) provide Usenet hub services. I seem to recall that Rick
helped fund the transition of Usenet from UUCP to TCP/IP by giving away
56kb modems to hosts that applied for domain names. I *think* (memory
is fuzzy here as this wasn't something I directly worked with), that
most of the modems eventually transitioned from UUCP dialup to permanent
link IP.
