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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Old Style Computing and Networking Post 302393734 by Action on Tuesday 9th of February 2010 12:12:56 PM

02-09-2010

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ed is, in my humble opinion, the best forever, and command line (tty, framebuffer) is better than GUI - which is - _in my personal opinion_ - rather for dummies (secretaries, etc) or for doing something simple quickly. That everything today needs GUI, all web sites are tuned for GUI browsers - i think it's a _big_ _big_ mistake.

as for uucp, i found something like ISPs which offer an option to deliver email over uucp and not like usually, and there is one organization about science - far away from me - which offers uucp - obviously for its members only, and i am not invited to there, - and there are some ISPs which just offer UUCP, especially in Pakistan where they have a nation-wide UUCP network .

On the Web they write it only makes sense to use UUCP if it doesn't make sense to build all the DSL infrastructure.

UUCP over Internet was only on the site of that science-related organization. There were some lists of UUCP providers but all of those lists are obsolete (2001 or older) and sites listed there either do not offer UUCP (at least not over IP) or do not exist at all.

Well, yeah... it doesn't give lot of hope.

They also write that UUCP networks are mostly run by hobbyists today. Seems I will not find anything. And anyway - nothing free.

If there is nothing to find about uucp access, how about mailing lists? The only more or less free lists seemed to be bumplist, but they have there a strange problem, like old subscribers are all the time bumped by new ones - that annoys a lot. Are there any other mailing lists like that?

Last word about ed, console & co: in my opinion, ed in console is the only true, with PS1 set to nothing and some improvements like cl as short for clear and cursor turned off.

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uutry

uutry(1)						      General Commands Manual							  uutry(1)

NAME

       uutry - Tries to contact remote system with debugging on

SYNOPSIS

       uutry [system]

DESCRIPTION

       The uutry command is a shell that invokes uucico to call a remote site, system.	Debugging is turned on (level 9).  The debugging output is
       put into the file /tmp/system.  A tail -f on this file is executed so that the debugging output is printed on the  terminal  during  execu-
       tion.   Typing the Interrupt key sequence gives control back to the terminal while uucico continues to run, putting its output in /tmp/sys-
       tem.

       The uutry command overrides any retry period for a remote system and will attempt to establish a connection immediately.

       The output file, /tmp/system is overwritten each time uutry is executed to system.

FILES

       On a given system, this file contains a list of remote sites accessible through the UUCP protocol.  The	primary  security  file  for  uucp
       which specifies access permissions for remote systems.  Contains information about devices on the local system that can establish a connec-
       tion to a remote computer using the uucp program.  The spool directory where uucp maintains its temporary work files.  Contains lock  files
       that prevent multiple uses of devices and multiple calls to systems.  Called the public directory on a given system, UUCP uses it for send-
       ing and receiving information; ~uucp is a brief way of specifying it.  A file created by uutry to contain traces generated by uucico  while
       connecting to system, system.

SEE ALSO

       Commands:  uucico(8)

																	  uutry(1)