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- initialism computing, Internet
Unix -to-UnixCopy Protocol , a file transfer protocol used on networks, traditionally used forUsenet ande-mail transfers
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Another, called UUCP, was built at Bell Laboratories for file transfer and remote-command execution.
Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001
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Another, called UUCP, was built at Bell Laboratories for file transfer and remote-command execution.
Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001
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One is known as UUCP and started out with a different addressing system than the rest of the Net.
The Big Dummies' Guide to the Internet Version 2.0 : Chapter 2: E-mail 1994
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The more common one is known as a UUCP site (UUCP being a common way to transfer information among computers using the Unix operating system) and offers access to international electronic mail and conferences.
The Big Dummies' Guide to the Internet Version 2.0 : Chapter 1: Setting Up and Jacking In 1994
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In 1979, two graduate students at Duke University in North Carolina, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, came up with the idea of using this system, known as UUCP (for Unix-to-Unix CoPy), to distribute information of interest to people in the Unix community.
The Big Dummies' Guide to the Internet Version 2.0 : Chapter 4: Usenet II 1994
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Using homemade auto dial modems and the unix to unix copy program (called UUCP), that was being distributed with the UNIX operating system, version 7, Steve Bellovin, one of the students, wrote some simple shell script programs in Unix to have the computers call each other up and search for changes in the files and then copy the changes.
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For people at other hosts to be able to find your host, however, it is good to be registered in the UUCP map, which is kept by the group of volunteers known as the UUCP Project.
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In particular, our best seller in the late '80s was a book about a now long defunct program called UUCP which was a predecessor to the internet that let us all connect over dial-up lines.
O'Reilly News 2009
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The name "UUCP," for Unix to Unix CoPy, originally applied to a transport service used over dial-ups between adjacent systems.
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Funny, I suppose, that I've used my real name since the ARPANET and bang-style UUCP news?
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