Need protocol info about UUCP

[John Chambers]

Hey, if anyone has such info, please spread it around.  We could use it,
too!  In fact, if anyone knows where there is usable documentation on
all of uucp, how about spreading that around.

A couple of us here have been trying to use uucp to transfer files around
between some not-very-compatible Unices (Vax+4.2BSD, IBM PC/IX, 68020+SysV,
and so on).  We haven't been getting much satisfaction. We set everyting
up jus' like de manual(s) say, an' when we say uucp or uux, noting much
happen a'tall.  

The LOGFILEs do show that connections happen, but that's about all.  There
are lots of error messages that aren't explained anywhere, and certainly
aren't intuitively obvious (at least not to any of our intuitions).

I'm almost at the stage of writing my own, so I can get something to work.
It would have been faster to type it all in by hand than to waste all the
time I've already wasted on this project....

			John Chambers

P.S. I've asked about this before, without any response:  Does anyone have
a simple (repeat simple) file-transfer method across RS-232 lines?  The
ideal would be a pair of programs, a writer and a reader, which have the
property that the reader can easily be typed in to the target system and
then a few files (including the source for the writer) can be transferred
across the line in a highly-reliable manner.  

Please, no flames about how I should get more powerful hardware, software,
etc.  I've got them.  What I'm trying to do is to install the marvelous
software in a machine that doesn't yet have it.  The floppy drive seems
to be incompatible with the rest of the universe.  There's an Ethernet
board, but the software for it is on another machine and....