UUCP
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UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy)[1] is a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between computers.
Original author(s) | Mike Lesk |
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Developer(s) | AT&T Bell Laboratories |
Initial release | 1979; 45 years ago (1979) |
Operating system | Unix and Unix-like, DOS, OS/2, OpenVMS, AmigaOS, classic Mac OS, CP/M |
Type | Command |
A command named uucp
is one of the programs in the suite; it provides a user interface for requesting file copy operations. The UUCP suite also includes uux
(user interface for remote command execution), uucico
(the communication program that performs the file transfers), uustat
(reports statistics on recent activity), uuxqt
(execute commands sent from remote machines), and uuname
(reports the UUCP name of the local system). Some versions of the suite include uuencode
/uudecode
(convert 8-bit binary files to 7-bit text format and vice versa).
Although UUCP was originally developed on Unix in the 1970s and 1980s, and is most closely associated with Unix-like systems, UUCP implementations exist for several non-Unix-like operating systems, including DOS, OS/2, OpenVMS (for VAX hardware only), AmigaOS,[2] classic Mac OS, and even CP/M.