On 08/12/2019 04:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 08/12/2019 02:35 PM, Galen Seitz wrote:
On 8/12/19 11:43 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
My post declared SERVER/CLIENT relationships are [expletives deleted ;]
And I bet your desktop is running an X *server*. Oh, the horrors!
If you really want to compute like it's 1975, there's always uucp, but
I think you would be much better served (pun intended) by learning how
to use scp or nfs/samba.
*CAVEAT LECTOR*
uucp may be *EXACTLY* what I'm looking for YMMV ;/
need to read further
I've been reading ;} "cu" describes what I envisioned.
https://www.airs.com/ian/uucp-doc/uucp_3.html#SEC21 states in part:
The cu program is used to call up another system and act as
a dial in terminal. It can also do simple file transfers with > no error
checking.
It says "dial in terminal". If I read the documentation,
[https://www.airs.com/ian/uucp-doc/uucp_6.html#SEC79]
correctly, that should be no problem. The documentation explicitly notes
security issues. For my _initial_ usage that should not be an issue.
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