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From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross)
Subject: [TUHS] Help request: uucp, mail on 4.2BSD
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 22:45:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W5Lvfv6os84PA6uJnbv4ohCrRi2PMTtMjpuWrUGtL5rRg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1703101348460.2854@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Steve Simon wrote:
>
> > Maybe its the same one, but I remeber a special UUCP protocol which had
> > its MTU and timeouts carefully adjusted to get the best performance
> > across X25.
>
> And there was yet another variation ("s"?) designed for satellite
> circuits.


It seems that there was a whole slew of protocols at one time.
Interestingly, the FreeBSD documentation still includes a fairly extensive
description of UUCP (I guess these are really the `info` pages from Taylor
UUCP) that describe a number of different protocols:
https://docs.freebsd.org/info/uucp/uucp.info.Protocols.html

        - Dan C.
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-10  3:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-07 17:17 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
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 [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-03-07  7:09 Warren Toomey
2017-03-07  7:11 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-07  7:54 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-03-07  8:27   ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-07  9:09 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-07 15:23   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-07 20:43   ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-07 22:38     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-07 22:45       ` John Floren
2017-03-07 22:50       ` Jacob Goense
2017-03-07 22:58       ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-07 23:46         ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-07 23:54           ` William Pechter
2017-03-07 23:55             ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-08  0:03           ` John Floren
2017-03-08  0:05             ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-08  4:05         ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-08 10:21         ` arnold
2017-03-07 23:14       ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-07 23:19         ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-07 23:27           ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-08 21:20             ` Josh Good
2017-03-08 21:42               ` Corey Lindsly
2017-03-08 22:59                 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-09 20:26                   ` Josh Good
     [not found]     ` <86varkclj1.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org>
2017-03-08  7:17       ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-08 22:03 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-08 23:07   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-08 23:18     ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-08 23:39       ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-09  0:22         ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-09 14:51           ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-09 17:53             ` SPC
2017-03-11  5:29             ` jsteve
2017-03-09  1:59     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-09  9:30     ` Joerg Schilling

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