On Apr 4, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > 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... > IIRC, uucp file a!b!c did not work, only uucp file a!b. Email, OTOH, was roughly translated automatically to uucp {qf,df} b!{qf,df} and the other side knew to unpack qf/df and do the right thing.
Owen