On Apr 4, 2010, at 3:08 16PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

>> File transfer wasn't multihop
> 
> It was, for at least some versions (V2 and later?), if the intermediate 
> site(s) allowed execution of the uucp command. 25 years on the brain is fuzzy 
> on the details ...


You could certainly add uux and uux to the list of legal remote commands, but I 
confess that my memory is also dim about whether

        uucp file a!b!c

would be translated automatically.  It has indeed been a while...

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb






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