Interest in UUCP?

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Jun 13 22:39:34 2001

--- Bill Pechter <pechter_at_bg-tc-ppp480.monmouth.com> wrote:
> I wrote:
> > When I was a system admin for Lucent (1997-1999), I was amazed at how much
> > they depend on UUCP for internal file transfer.
>
> It was pretty much all TCP/IP in '97 in Holmdel.

They used a combination of UUCP over IP and UUCP over some AT&T serial
protocol over fiber. Can't remember the product name. Cost a bundle
for a compatible Sbus card and the license for the driver.

Oh... this was at the Columbus Works (thus cbosgd, cbatt, etc.), formerly a
Western Electric factory.

> They've talked about removing the UUCP support inside Lucent but too
> many people have embedded it into operations...

No doubt.

> You could literally install two versions on a machine (one in the AT&T
> universe and one in the BSD universe and have your machine talking to itself
> with two different UUCP's over ethernet and serial port).

Never tried that but I'm sure it would work. Kinda gross, though.

-ethan


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