Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Apr 4, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:

> On Apr 4, 2010, at 3:08 16PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>
> > > File transfer wasn't multihop
> >
> > It was, for at least some versions (V2 and later?), if the intermediate site(s) allowed execution of the uucp 
> > command. 25 years on the brain is fuzzy on the details ...
>
>
> You could certainly add uux and uux to the list of legal remote commands, but I confess that my memory is also dim 
> about whether
>
>       uucp file a!b!c
>
> would be translated automatically.  It has indeed been a while...
IIRC, uucp file a!b!c did not work, only uucp file a!b.  Email, OTOH,
was roughly translated automatically to uucp {qf,df} b!{qf,df} and
the other side knew to unpack qf/df and do the right thing.

Owen