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#From: [email protected] (Bill Fenner)
##Subject: Re: Availability of UUCP <-> FTP gateway software? (NOT FTPMAIL)
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Tim Peoples) writes:
|   I was wondering if there was such a thing as a UUCP <-> FTP
|gateway software package.

Look for an alpha copy of my perl "rftp" server in alt.sources, or via
anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.psu.edu:/pub/fenner/rftp.shar.Z .

>From the README:
>"rftp" is designed to run on a directly-connected Internet host, and allows
>its UUCP neighbors to use it as an FTP server.  The Internet host can ftp for
>a file and UUCP it back to the requesting site.
>
>"rftp" has currently only been tested under SunOS 4.1, since that's what's
>running on the only site that I have a UUCP connection to.  It will probably
>require modification to work with a BSD-ish UUCP system.  If you do this,
>I'd appreciate it if you'd send me your mods and I'll incorporate them.
>
>Note that this rftp server is compatible with the UUPSI "uuftp" client
>available from ftp.psi.com.

 Bill