USENIX Board Studies UUCP
Michael Meissner
meissner at dg-rtp.dg.com
Wed Dec 13 02:44:09 AEST 1989
In article </}_S!#@b-tech.uucp> zeeff at b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
| >Clearly, the Telebit 'g' spoof works well for us now. Philosophically,
| >though, it bothers me that we have an OS as vendor-independent as UNIX,
| >yet we are so dependent on Telebit. Ideally, other equipment should be
|
| All we really need is for vendors to fix the larger packet sizes
| code in uucp so that acks will fit in small reverse channels. Telebit
| has made alot of money providing a workaround for this "bug" in uucp.
Another thing to look into is dealing with small mail messages as well
as the large news batches. As I understand the way uucp works, it has
to syncronize both ends when each file is completely transfered. This
leads to poor performance if you don't have a large file to amortize
the startup and shutdown costs before the next file is transfered.
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