> uucp ... the first place I'd turn for > sneaker-netting posix-ish systems together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP Yep. UUCP is great if there's a phone line that can dial overnight cheaply, but no Internet. I released the first free implementation of uucp (gnuucp), which was later succeeded by my friend Ian Taylor's "Taylor uucp", which I believe is still the best free version. Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may still even maintain it (last release: 1.07 in 2003). See: http://www.airs.com/ian/software.html There was also an MSDOS implementation of uuslave (the predecessor of gnuucp), maintained by Tim Pozar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, which was widely used to gateway Fidonet nodes to Usenet/UUCP nodes. That was the first project I worked on to bring thousands of 14-year-olds into the global network. See: http://www.lns.com/papers/ufgate/ If a remote school has a dialup phone connection that can run TCP/IP over a modem, that's probably better than running uucp over it, even if you can only run it at night due to telco charges. But uucp has a lot of scheduling and queueing support that more modern TCP/IP systems have forgotten about. John _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
