From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: brad@anduin.eldar.org (Brad Spencer) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 09:28:46 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] uucp protocol nits In-Reply-To: (message from Lyndon Nerenberg on Thu, 9 Mar 2017 18:23:37 -0800) Message-ID: Lyndon Nerenberg writes: > So if we are going to talk UUCP, how can we not bring up the protocol, and it's beloved behaviour, in certain implementations. > > 'g' protocol was what everyone ran. 64 byte packets, in a three packet window. By default. But 'g' could really race along, if provoked. The window could slide up to seven! Unless you were running Xenix, where that provoked a core dump. On most systems, increasing the window size meant binary patching uucico. > > I fuzzily remember 'g' implementations that could handle packets up to 256 bytes, but I can't remember now if the basic (pre-HDB) UUCP could deal with that. > > HDB cleaned up a lot of things. While complicating the configuration files to no end. > > In parallel to all this, Rick Adams was pounding the living daylights out of the BSD UUCP code. That which ran on seismo. Then uunet. > > -- uunet!ncc!lyndon (so many uucp path sigs ...) Back a long time ago, I ran OS/9 on a 6809E Tandy Color Computer 3. The relationship to Unix is that it was obviously inspired by it, especially Vx where x <= 6 [or perhaps 4 or 5, the block diagrams describing OS/9 could have described the older Unix systems ]. One of the items I worked on quite extensively was the UUCP implementation. I didn't write the original C code reimplementation that it used, but modified it quite a bit and one of the items I added to it was the ability of the g protocol to handle a bigger packet window and probably to handle bigger packets. At the time I dialed it into UUNET once or twice a day for email and some very small amount of Usenet news. This all would have been in the 1992 - 1994 time frame. So, ya, the UUCP g protocol could be fiddled with somewhat and it would likely work. -- Brad Spencer - brad at anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS http://anduin.eldar.org - & - http://anduin.ipv6.eldar.org [IPv6 only]