[PLUG] YES!!! - was Re: [Retitled for clarity] File sharing over a two node LAN

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On 08/12/2019 04:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > On 08/12/2019 02:35 PM, Galen Seitz wrote:
> >> On 8/12/19 11:43 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >>>
> >>> My post declared SERVER/CLIENT? relationships are [expletives deleted ;]
> >>
> >> And I bet your desktop is running an X *server*.? Oh, the horrors!
> >>
> >> If you really want to compute like it's 1975, there's always uucp, but 
> >> I think you would be much better served (pun intended) by learning how 
> >> to use scp or nfs/samba.
> >>
> > 
> > *CAVEAT LECTOR*
> > uucp may be *EXACTLY* what I'm looking for YMMV ;/
> > need to read further
> 
> I've been reading ;} "cu" describes what I envisioned.
> https://www.airs.com/ian/uucp-doc/uucp_3.html#SEC21 states in part:
> > The cu program is used to call up another system and act as
> > a dial in terminal. It can also do simple file transfers with > no error checking.
> 
> It says "dial in terminal". If I read the documentation,
> [https://www.airs.com/ian/uucp-doc/uucp_6.html#SEC79]
> correctly, that should be no problem. The documentation explicitly notes 
> security issues. For my _initial_ usage that should not be an issue.

I hate to burst your bubble, but 'cu' is technically a Client,
and the getty running on the other end, or what ever you login to
is known as a Server.

Your simply going to use 50 year old tech to do what one would
do with scp/ssh today.

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org