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Re: Question on how bang-paths worked from the old days

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According to Grant Taylor  <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>:
>> UUCP routing?  There was and is no such thing.  The uux command only 
>> knows how to send a command and an input file one hop.
>
>I question the veracity of that statement.  I've used uux from 
>contemporary version of Taylor UUCP (no known relation) to send commands 
>to remote systems via intermediary systems.  I've got commands like the 
>following in shell history:
>
>    $ uux 'host1!host2!uname -a > /tmp/host2-uname-uux.out'
>
>I seem to recall these commands working as desired.  My client / sending 
>system needed to send the command through host1 to be able to reach host2.

I honestly don't remember, but I am pretty sure that other than the
mail routes we got from the mapping project, you had to give the full
bang path for all of the hops. When I was using uucp, it was point to
point over dialup using Telebit modems. If anyone wants a full sized
ISA card Telebit modem, I may still have it in the junk pile.

>Maybe this is a newer capability in contemporary Taylor UUCP that didn't 
>exist in UUCP implementations of old.

Maybe.  I ditched UUCP in the mid 1980s when I got my a rather funky Internet
connection using Wavelan proto-wifi cards from an antenna in my attic to a
friend's house a block away to share his blazing fast 56Kb DDS connection.
It was still better than dialup uucp.



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  Re: Question on how bang-paths worked from the old days John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2021-08-02 20:23 +0000
    Re: Question on how bang-paths worked from the old days John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-08-02 14:11 -0700
      Re: Question on how bang-paths worked from the old days Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-08-02 17:44 -0600
    Re: Question on how bang-paths worked from the old days Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-08-02 17:24 -0600
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        Re: Question on how bang-paths worked from the old days Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-08-02 22:35 -0600
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