[Coco] terrifying sysadmins for fun with UUCP was Re: old backups, RESTORED!

[Willard Goosey]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 11:46:06PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> Well this must be a mandate from heaven, UUCP over drivewire was a
> subject of discussion on the IRC channel earlier today.   We were
> thinking it might be fun to set up an all CoCo UUCP net and play
> around.  

UUCP over Drivewire over TCP over IP.  I love it!

Wow, I'm going to have to set up a box that can run the dw4 server.  

>Since DriveWire presents a Hayes compatible modem on a
> somewhat regular SCF device,  we should be able to use any existing
> dialup software unchanged, provided it will let you use an IP address
> in place of a phone number in the ATD command.  Terminal programs and
> BBS software have worked for me.

It should work....
> 
> Is UUCPbb the "preferred" implementation for OS9?  It's own
> documentation seems to say so :)

Well, back in '91 Ricky was running Rich Adam's UUCP, but I can't
really say how well it worked.  The version he had installed couldn't
accept calls, which would be a problem for what you're proposing.

Willard
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