multi-hop uucp implies -C?

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From: Mark Plotnick
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 01:23

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Under SunOS 4.1.1, "uucp x host1!host2!y" generates a command that
starts with "uux -C".  Is the "-C" really necessary?  We have a user
here who tried to send out 100 copies of a 6MB file via multi-hop uucp,
and our disks didn't have anywhere near 600MB of space.  Would it be OK
if uucp gave uux the -C option only if uucp was itself given the -C
option?

	Mark Plotnick
	mp@allegra.att.com

P.S. has there been any work toward implementing a sort of
multicasting, in which a single uucp command line can specify that a
file should be copied to multiple destinations?  In the above case,
virtually all the 100 copies were being sent to the same "host1", and it
would be a win to just send the 6MB once and then have host1 execute a
uucp command to send to the 100 destinations.

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Subject: multi-hop uucp implies -C?
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