Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 16:29:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: drifter@stratos.net Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any one still use UUCP? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508162658.23602A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <199805082155.RAA00455@stratos.net>
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Yup, -chat is perfect place for this.
As far as north America: UUCP is almost dead. Yet, in some other
parts of the world where Internet is not yet fully developed, UUCP is
still in wide use. I know for sure that it is used in Russia since data
lines are very low quality and are also scarce. Hence it is very important
to continue shipping uucp with Unix because *a lot* of people in other
parts of the world rely on it. If you will be doing most of the admin work
in the US, you will most likely never even hear word UUCP. *grin*
-- Yan
Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want
www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark."
Linux == DOS of the Unix world.
On Fri, 8 May 1998 drifter@stratos.net wrote:
>
>( I'm not sure this belongs in -questions, so I thought -chat would be
> appropriate. If not, I apologize. )
>
> Just out of curiosity, I know that FreeBSD (and UNIX) have a
>series of "UUCP" commands that transfer files and even run programs
>remotely over phone lines _not_ using the internet.
> I got kind of curious about UUCP and am doing some light reading of
>old AT&T documents about it. I got the impression that UUCP was really the
>only way to go in the dark ages before the Internet was as wide-spread
>as it is today. I probably got the wrong impression, but I am wondering
>if UUCP is an old hold-over from earlier times whose days are numbered
>or if it is still in wide use today -- and if so, why?
> I'm not so sure I want to splurge for ORA UUCP right now, since
>I don't think I'd be doing a lot with it any way. (I don't think there
>are "public" UUCP cites to experiment with :) )
> So, is UUCP a dying art? Is it that some places just don't have
>access to the Internet or an Ethernet, but they can arrange for UUCP?
>Or is there some advantage to UUCP that I am not aware about?
>
> Just curious...
>
> -Drifter
>
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