UUCP using V.32 or HST modem connections

[Gary Crum]

In article <3354 at pensoft.UUCP> robin at pensoft.UUCP (Robin Wilson) writes:

   >connection?  Can BNU be configured to establish SLIP connections before
   >trying to do TCP UUCP transfers?

   Why would you want to do this?  Why don't you just use rcp or something?


It is often appropriate to queue up transfer requests and do them in
bulk, automatically, at scheduled times.  UUCP does such queueing and
offers control over connection scheduling (e.g. the UUCP Systems file
specifies what times are appropriate to establish connections).  UUCP
also allows polling to be setup.  Most of the IP/TCP user-level
programs, like rcp, were designed with dedicated links in mind, not
dialup SLIP links.  UUCP was designed with dialup links in mind, not
unlike dialup SLIP links.

Gary