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<H1><A NAME="SECTION0014100000">History</A></H1>
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UUCP was designed in the late seventies by Mike Lesk at AT&T Bell
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Laboratories to provide a simple dial-up network over public telephone
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lines. Since most people that want to have email and Usenet News on
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their home machine still communicate through modems, UUCP has remained
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very popular. Although there are many implementations running on a
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wide variety of hardware platforms and operating systems, they are
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compatible to a high degree.
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However, as with most software that has somehow become ``standard'' over
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the years, there is no UUCP which one would call <em>the</em> UUCP. It
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has undergone a steady process of evolution since the first version
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which was implemented in 1976. Currently, there are two major species
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which differ mainly in their support of hardware and their
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configuration. Of these, various implementations exist, each varying
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slightly from its siblings.
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One species is the so-called ``Version 2 UUCP'', which dates back to
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a 1977 implementation by Mike Lesk, David A. Novitz, and Greg Chesson.
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Although it is fairly old, it is still in frequent use. Recent
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implementations of Version 2 provide much of the comfort of the newer
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UUCP species.
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The second species was developed in 1983, and is commonly referred
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to as BNU (Basic Networking Utilities), HoneyDanBer UUCP, or HDB for
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short. The name is derived from the authors' names, P.-Honeyman,
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D.-A.-Novitz, and B.-E.-Redman. HDB was conceived to eliminate some of
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Version 2 UUCP's deficiencies. For example, new transfer protocols were
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added, and the spool directory was split so that now there is one
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directory for each site you have UUCP traffic with.
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The implementation of UUCP currently distributed with is Taylor
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UUCP-1.04,<A HREF="footnode.html#5622"><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="gif" SRC="foot_motif.gif"></A> which is the version this chapter is based upon. Taylor UUCP Version
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1.04 was released in February 1993. Apart from traditional
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configuration files, Taylor UUCP may also be compiled to understand the
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new-style-- a.k.a. ``Taylor''-- configuration files.
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Version 1.05 has been released recently, and will soon make its way into
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most distributions. The differences between these versions mostly affect
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features you will never use, so you should be able to configure Taylor
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UUCP-1.05 using the information form this book.
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As included in most distributions, Taylor UUCP is usually
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compiled for BNU compatibility, or the Taylor configuration scheme, or
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both. As the latter is much more flexible, and probably easier to
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understand than the often rather obscure BNU configuration files, I
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will describe the Taylor scheme below.
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The purpose of this chapter is not to give you an exhaustive description
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of what the command line options for the UUCP commands are and what they
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do, but to give you an introduction on how to set up a working UUCP
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node. The first section gives a hopefully gentle introduction about how
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UUCP implements remote execution and file transfers. If you are not
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entirely new to UUCP, you might want to skip this and move on to
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section-<A HREF="#uucpconfigfiles"><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="gif" SRC="cross_ref_motif.gif"></A>, which explains the various files used
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to set up UUCP.
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We will however assume that you are familiar with the user programs of
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the UUCP suite. These are uucp and uux. For a description,
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please refer to the on-line manual pages.
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Besides the publicly accessible programs, uux and uucp,
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the UUCP suite contains a number of commands used for administrative
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purposes only. They are used to monitor UUCP traffic across your node,
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remove old log files, or compile statistics. None of these will be
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described here, because they're peripheral to the main tasks of UUCP.
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Besides, they're well documented and fairly easy to understand.
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However, there is a third category, which comprises the actual UUCP
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``work horses''. They are called uucico (where cico stands for
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copy-in copy-out), and uuxqt, which executes jobs sent from
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remote systems.
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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