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

[Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu>]

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...

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb