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1.1     ! root        1: .\"    @(#)uucp.1c     6.3 (Berkeley) 4/24/86
        !             2: .\"
        !             3: .TH UUCP 1C "April 24, 1986"
        !             4: .AT 3
        !             5: .SH NAME
        !             6: uucp \- unix to unix copy
        !             7: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             8: .B uucp
        !             9: [
        !            10: .B \-acCdfmr
        !            11: ] [
        !            12: .BI \-n user
        !            13: ] [
        !            14: .BI \-g grade
        !            15: ] [
        !            16: .BI \-s spool
        !            17: ] [
        !            18: .BI \-x debug
        !            19: ] source-file....  destination-file
        !            20: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            21: .I Uucp
        !            22: copies files named by the source-file arguments
        !            23: to the destination-file argument.
        !            24: A file name may be a pathname on your machine, or may 
        !            25: have the form
        !            26: .IP
        !            27: system-name!pathname
        !            28: .LP
        !            29: where `system-name' is taken from a list of system names
        !            30: that
        !            31: .I uucp
        !            32: knows about.
        !            33: Shell metacharacters ?*[] appearing in the pathname part
        !            34: will be expanded on the appropriate system.
        !            35: .PP
        !            36: Pathnames may be one of:
        !            37: .IP (1)
        !            38: a full pathname;
        !            39: .IP (2)
        !            40: a pathname preceded by
        !            41: .BI ~ user;
        !            42: where
        !            43: .I user
        !            44: is a userid on the specified system
        !            45: and is replaced by that user's login directory;
        !            46: .IP (3)
        !            47: a pathname prefixed by
        !            48: .BR ~ ,
        !            49: where
        !            50: .B ~
        !            51: is expanded into the system's public directory (usually /usr/spool/uucppublic);
        !            52: .IP (4)
        !            53: a partial pathname, which is prefixed by the current directory.
        !            54: .PP
        !            55: If the result is an erroneous pathname for the remote system,
        !            56: the copy will fail.
        !            57: If the destination-file is a directory, the last part of the
        !            58: source-file name is used.
        !            59: .ig
        !            60: If a simple
        !            61: .I ~user
        !            62: destination is inaccessible to 
        !            63: .IR uucp ,
        !            64: data is copied to a spool directory and the user
        !            65: is notified by
        !            66: .IR mail (1).
        !            67: ..
        !            68: .PP
        !            69: .I Uucp
        !            70: preserves execute permissions across the transmission
        !            71: and gives 0666 read and write permissions (see
        !            72: .IR chmod (2)).
        !            73: .PP
        !            74: The following options are interpreted by
        !            75: .IR uucp .
        !            76: .TP
        !            77: .B \-a
        !            78: Avoid doing a
        !            79: .I getwd
        !            80: to find the current directory.
        !            81: (This is sometimes used for efficiency.)
        !            82: .TP 
        !            83: .B \-c
        !            84: Use the source file when copying out rather than
        !            85: copying the file to the spool directory.
        !            86: (This is the default.)
        !            87: .TP
        !            88: .B \-C
        !            89: Copy the source file to the spool directory and transmit
        !            90: the copy.
        !            91: .TP 
        !            92: .B \-d
        !            93: Make all necessary directories for the file copy.
        !            94: (This is the default.)
        !            95: .TP
        !            96: .B \-f
        !            97: Do not make intermediate directories for the file copy.
        !            98: .TP
        !            99: .BI \-g grade
        !           100: .I Grade
        !           101: is a single letter/number; lower ASCII sequence characters
        !           102: will cause a job to be transmitted earlier during a particular conversation.
        !           103: Default is `n'. By way of comparison,
        !           104: .IR uux (1C)
        !           105: defaults to `A'; mail is usually sent at `C'.
        !           106: .TP 
        !           107: .B \-m
        !           108: Send mail to the requester when the copy is complete.
        !           109: .TP
        !           110: .BI \-n user
        !           111: Notify
        !           112: .I user
        !           113: on remote system (i.e., send
        !           114: .I user
        !           115: mail) that a file was sent.
        !           116: .TP
        !           117: .B \-r
        !           118: Do not start the transfer, just queue the job.
        !           119: .TP
        !           120: .BI \-s spool
        !           121: Use
        !           122: .I spool
        !           123: as the spool directory instead of the default.
        !           124: .TP
        !           125: .BI \-x debug
        !           126: Turn on the debugging at level
        !           127: .I debug.
        !           128: .SH FILES
        !           129: /usr/spool/uucp - spool directory
        !           130: .br
        !           131: /usr/lib/uucp/* - other data and program files
        !           132: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           133: uux(1C), mail(1)
        !           134: .PP
        !           135: D. A. Nowitz and M. E. Lesk,
        !           136: .IR "A Dial-Up Network of UNIX Systems" .
        !           137: .PP
        !           138: D. A. Nowitz,
        !           139: .IR "Uucp Implementation Description" .
        !           140: .SH WARNING
        !           141: The domain of remotely accessible files can
        !           142: (and for obvious security reasons, usually should)
        !           143: be severely restricted.
        !           144: You will very likely not be able to fetch files
        !           145: by pathname;
        !           146: ask a responsible person on the remote system to
        !           147: send them to you.
        !           148: For the same reasons you will probably not be able
        !           149: to send files to arbitrary pathnames.
        !           150: .SH BUGS
        !           151: .br
        !           152: All files received by
        !           153: .I uucp
        !           154: will be owned by the uucp administrator (usually UID 5).
        !           155: .PP
        !           156: The 
        !           157: .B \-m
        !           158: option will only work sending files or receiving
        !           159: a single file.
        !           160: (Receiving multiple files specified by special shell
        !           161: characters ?*[] will not activate
        !           162: the
        !           163: .B \-m
        !           164: option.)
        !           165: .PP
        !           166: At present
        !           167: .I uucp
        !           168: cannot copy to a system several "hops" away, that is, a command of
        !           169: the form
        !           170: .PP
        !           171: .nf
        !           172:        uucp myfile system1!system2!system3!yourfile
        !           173: .fi
        !           174: .PP
        !           175: is not permitted. Use
        !           176: .IR uusend (1C)
        !           177: instead.
        !           178: .PP
        !           179: When invoking
        !           180: .I uucp
        !           181: from
        !           182: .IR csh (1),
        !           183: the `!' character must be prefixed by the `\e' escape to inhibit
        !           184: .IR csh 's
        !           185: history mechanism. (Quotes are not sufficient.)
        !           186: .PP
        !           187: .I Uucp
        !           188: refuses to copy a file that does not give read access to ``other'';
        !           189: that is, the file must have at least 0444 modes.

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