23 Aug
2014
23 Aug
'14
5:08 a.m.
Doug McIlroy wrote:
Are you thinking of the cu (call unix) command? But that was included in v7,
and don't think it was part of uucp. The escape was ~ So a ~. to hangup,
~%put to send a file to the remote and ~%take to get one, and ~~ to send a ~
later on, there was a ct (call terminal) command, expecting a terminal at the end
of phone line instead of another machine.
I was
wondering if Unix had any form of networking before uucp
Right from the time Unix came up on the PDP-11 it was
networked in the sense that it had dial-in and dial-out
modems. Fairly early on, when Unixes appeared in other
Bell Labs locations, Charlie Roberts provided a program
for logging into another machine. It had an escape for
file transfer, so it covered the basic functionality
of rsh and ftp. It was not included in distributions,
however, and its name escapes me. Maybe scj can add
further details.
Doug