SLIP or PPP instead of G proto (Re: USENIX Board Studies UUCP)

[Peter da Silva]

One thing that people seem to miss in the discussion of whether SLIP or PPP
is appropriate for uucp++ is that the current connect-time efficient batch
protocol can be maintained, with a uucp spool directory and so on, under IP.

You just queue up the requests, and when time comes to poll you dial-up,
go into IP, and transfer files in both directions as fast as you can. Then
you hang up and run uuxqt.

This wouldn't even need to allow interactive use of the link. Phil Karn's
KA9Q would do just fine, without even dealing with real sockets. But you
could also *add* sockets later and start interacting with that big old hub
when you got better software.

The problem is how you set up something like dial-up IP started under a
hypothetical modular UUCP. Any ideas? At least design your uucp++ so that
full-duplex protocols like IP can co-exist with it.
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