UUCP

UUCP
Original author(s)Mike Lesk
Developer(s)AT&T Bell Laboratories
Initial release1979; 45 years ago (1979)
Operating systemUnix and Unix-like, DOS, OS/2, OpenVMS, AmigaOS, classic Mac OS, CP/M
TypeCommand
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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.

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.

  1. ^ UNIX(TM) TIME-SHARING SYSTEM: UNIX PROGRAMMER'S MANUAL, Seventh Edition, Volume 1 (PDF). Murray Hill, New Jersey: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated. January 1979. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-04-29. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  2. ^ "Aminet - Search".