Data range used by UUCICO?

Lyndon Nerenberg lyndon at cs.athabascau.ca
Wed Mar 27 04:33:37 AEST 1991


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?

Maybe by encoding the 8 bits into 7? Kermit can be configured to use only
printable ASCII characters and it has no problem shoveling eight bit data
around either ...

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