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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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