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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
- Subject: Re: UUCP over SLIP?
- Message-ID: <tulj17g@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 04:08:33 GMT
- References: <Bzorqn.1y2@accelr8.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 19
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- In article <Bzorqn.1y2@accelr8.com>, jim@accelr8.com (Jim Reiss) writes:
- > We use a modem on a 4D/20 running IRIX 4.0.1 to dial up an internet
- > provider with UUCP. At times, we also call that site with SLIP.
- > I would like the ability to run uucico over the SLIP connection when
- > the modem is being used for that. Does this seem possible?
- > I know that UUCP can be done over TCP/IP, but SGI does not seem to
- > provide any Devices file entry for it, and I am not sure how to set
- > up the Systems file for such a thing either. Can anyone help or direct
- > me to information about this sort of thing? Thanks.
-
-
- The current version of UUCP shipped by Silicon Graphics does not
- include UUCP over TCP/IP. The necessary code exists and I hope it
- will be shipped in the next major release. If it is sufficiently
- important you to have it sooner, then make your needs known to whomever
- sells IRIS's to you.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-