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From: corey@lod.com (Corey Lindsly)
Subject: [TUHS] uucp protocol nits
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:26:18 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170310222618.D374940B9@lod.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D3AFABDB-E2AE-4EF3-A3AF-22352C39647B@orthanc.ca>

> The company I was at was one of the early resellers of the Trailblazer.  =
> I have fond memories of hauling one out for an on-site demo for a =
> company running some flavour of 3B2.  We hooked it up to a serial port, =
> cu-ed out to our office server, and then I did a simple cat of a large =
> text file to show off the throughput.

Anyone remember using cu ~%put / ~%take commands to transfer files across 
dial-up lines on systems that didn't speak uucp? No error correction, 
just blast those bytes. Binary files through an acoustic coupler modem 
were always a particularly tricky proposition. Fun times.

--corey


  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-10 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-07 17:17 [TUHS] Help request: uucp, mail on 4.2BSD Clem Cole
2017-03-07 17:43 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2017-03-07 21:14   ` SPC
2017-03-08  1:51     ` John Labovitz
2017-03-10  0:31   ` Steve Simon
2017-03-10  2:04     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10  2:09       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10  2:23         ` [TUHS] uucp protocol nits Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10  2:57           ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-10  3:08             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10  3:28               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10  3:28                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10 14:28           ` Brad Spencer
2017-03-10 20:34           ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-10 21:42             ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-10 22:10             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10 22:26               ` Corey Lindsly [this message]
2017-03-12 19:38             ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-10  2:51     ` [TUHS] Help request: uucp, mail on 4.2BSD Dave Horsfall
2017-03-10  3:45       ` Dan Cross
2017-03-10  4:40         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10  9:57           ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-10  6:34     ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2017-03-10  7:22       ` Erik E. Fair
2017-03-10  7:27         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-03-10 15:00         ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-07 17:45 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-07 18:30 ` Jacob Goense
2017-03-07 18:30 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-07 19:00   ` Erik E. Fair
2017-03-07 22:04   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-10  6:10   ` Jim Carpenter

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