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Working on my #uucp connections between laptop and rpi. For some reason my Linux notebook just doesn't reach the rpi via uucp, and it doesn't make any sense at all.
gave up for now.
it actually connects.
and then it times out.
I still don't know why though.
it works for all the other systems, just my own doesn't like it.
spent entirely too much time reading documentation for #uucp to figure out if you can send requests to list files in another system's public folder
result: beats me
the problem is that this system is so ancient that nobody even writes about it anymore, the only thing you can find is basic documentation by companies that offer it in their systems (ibm and oracle for example) with no indication of how to actually use it.
what I want to find is someone else to connect my #uucp system to. unfortunately everybody that was interested in the technology seems to have given up.
SUCCESS!
it turned out to be two completely different problems, so when I changed the settings to check if it did anything it didn't lead to any noticeable improvement, because the other issue still was blocking.
oh well, at least it taught me stuff.
which means our small #uucp net looks roughly like this now...
@kyonshi I worked with UUCP back in the day. I was living in a country with no Internet connection, but it was possible to dial-up to an upstream host and exchange files using UUCP. This was used to implement a mail system (no SMTP or POP3 or IMAP just UUCP mail). Once you have mail, you can implement a mail server which can parse messages to list and request files. We even had an upstream server that allowed you to request web pages by e-mail (you got the HTML and images as a uuencoded e-mail).