Data range used by UUCICO?

Bill Fenner fenner at jazz.psu.edu
Mon Mar 25 13:40:46 AEST 1991


In article <1991Mar24.195246.11250 at jadpc.cts.com> jdeitch at jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) writes:
|UUCP uses an 8 bit protocol.  If it didn't how could you copy a binary
|and run it?

I dunno.  How can you copy a binary using Kermit and run that?  Kermit uses
a 7 bit protocol (if you ask it to.)

The UUCP g protocol requires an 8-bit datapath.  There exist other UUCP
protocols which do not require an 8-bit data path (i.e. the f protocol).
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