Uucp

Unix to Unix Copy
UUCP
Unix-to-Unix Copy Program

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Uucpnet
The international store and forward network consisting of all the world’s connected Unix machines (and others running some clone of the UUCP software). Any machine reachable only via a bang path is on UUCPNET. See network address. [Jargon File]
Uudecode
A Unix program to convert the ASCII output of uuencode back to binary. See uuencode for details.
Uuencode
communications (Unix-to-Unix encode) A Unix program for encoding binary data as ASCII. Uuencode was originally used with uucp to transfer binary files over serial lines which did not preserve the top bit of characters, but is now used for sending binary files by e-mail and posting to Usenet newsgroups etc. The program uudecode reverses the […]