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- Path: quijote.in-berlin.de!hajo
- Date: 09 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
- From: hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de (Hans-Joachim Zierke)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
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- References: <4cce5p$605@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> <DKuGFn.7zt@bokonon.ussinc.com>
- Subject: Re: Is UUCP is critical feature for Unix machine?
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- Stephen M. Dunn writes:
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- > The feature to which you refer is called UUCP spoofing and generally
- > works with the UUCP-g protocol. UUCP-g is commonly implemented
- > using 64-byte packets and a window size of 3, though it's certainly
- > possible to implement it with other settings.
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- I think "commonly" is no longer true. Of the public access systems around
- here in Berlin, exactly 0 will have this restriction any longer. The
- standard uucico of Unix systems as Taylor 1.04 or later. Unix systems
- use uucp-i. The standard uucico of DOS systems is the XP uucico, with a
- 4096/7/variable implementation of g. The standard uucico of OS/2 or NT
- systems is UUPC, with a 1024/7/variable implementation of g that is called
- v.
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- 64/3 is a problem of the past. I have never seen this, I'm too young... :-)
- I think Unix hackers still tell about it for sentimental reasons.
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- hajo
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- --
- A German asks for an English lesson:
- The German Telekom monopol makes phone calls between Bonn, the old
- West-German capital, and Berlin, the new German capital, cheaper. The
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- This is easily financed by rising local tariffs all over Germany, by 100%.
- What is the best English word for describing this?
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