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UUCP(1)							  UUCP(1)

NAME
       uucp - unix to unix copy program

SYNOPSIS
       uucp [-flags] source-file ... destination-file

DESCRIPTION
       Uucp  copies  files  named by the source-file arguments to
       the destination-file argument.	A  file	 name  may  be	a
       pathname on your machine, or may have the form

	   system-name!pathname

       where  `system-name'  is taken from a list of system names
       that  uucp  knows  about.    Shell   metacharacters   ?*[]
       appearing  in  the  pathname  part will be expanded on the
       appropriate system.

       Pathnames may be one of:

       o   a full pathname;

       o   a pathname preceded by ~user/, where user is a  userid
	   on the specified system and is replaced by that user's
	   login directory;

       o   a pathname prefixed by ~/, where  the  ~  is	 expanded
	   into	   the	 system's   public   directory	 (usually
	   /var/spool/uucppublic);

       o   a partial pathname, which is prefixed by the	 pathname
	   of the current directory.

       If  the	result	is  an	erroneous pathname for the remote
       system, the copy will fail.  If the destination-file is	a
       directory,  the last part of the source-file name is used.

       Uucp preserves execute permissions across the transmission
       and  gives  mode	 0666  read  and  write	 permissions (see
       chmod(2)).

OPTIONS
       -c  Use the source  file	 when  copying	out  rather  than
	   copying the file to the spool directory.  (This is the
	   default.)

       -C  Copy the  source  file  to  the  spool  directory  and
	   transmit the copy.

       -d  Make	 all  necessary	 directories  for  the file copy.
	   (This is the default.)

       -enode
	   Invoke uux(1) to arrange for the file transfer  to  be

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	   done on node.

       -f  Do  not  make  intermediate	directories  for the file
	   copy.

       -ggrade
	   Grade is a single letter/number; lower ASCII	 sequence
	   characters  will cause a job to be transmitted earlier
	   during a particular conversation.  Default is `n'.  By
	   way	of  comparison,	 uux(1)	 defaults to `A'; mail is
	   usually sent at `C'.

       -m  Send mail to the requester when the copy is	complete.

       -Mminsize
	   Abort if input data size is less than minsize.

       -nuser
	   Notify  user	 on  remote system (i.e., send user mail)
	   that a file was sent.

       -Pparams
	   Alters the  pathname	 for  the  UUCP	 parameters  file
	   [default: `/etc/uucp/CONFIG'].

       -r  Do not start the transfer, just queue the job.

       -sspool
	   Use	spool  as  the	spool  directory  instead  of the
	   default.

       -Sspool
	   Equivalent to -s.

       -xdebug
	   Turn on the debugging at level debug.

FILES
       /etc/uucp/CONFIG Current parameters for all UUCP	 programs
			(see uuparams(5)).
       LOGDIR/errors	UUCP error log.
       LOGDIR/uucp/node Uucp log for node.
       PARAMSDIR/L.aliases
			Aliases for remote system names.
       PARAMSDIR/L.sys	Remote system names.

SEE ALSO
       mail(1), uusend(1), uux(1), uuparams(5).

       D.  A.  Nowitz  and  M. E. Lesk, A Dial-Up Network of UNIX
       Systems.

       D. A. Nowitz, Uucp Implementation Description.

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UUCP(1)							  UUCP(1)

WARNING
       The domain of  remotely	accessible  files  can	(and  for
       obvious	security  reasons,  usually  should)  be severely
       restricted.  You will very likely not  be  able	to  fetch
       files  by pathname; ask a responsible person on the remote
       system to send them to you.  For the same reasons you will
       probably not be able to send files to arbitrary pathnames.

BUGS
       All files received by uucp  will	 be  owned  by	the  uucp
       administrator (usually UID 66).

       The  -m option will only work sending files or receiving a
       single  file.   (Receiving  multiple  files  specified  by
       special	shell  characters  ?*[]	 will not activate the -m
       option.)

       At present uucp cannot copy to  a  system  several  `hops'
       away, that is, a command of the form

	   uucp myfile system1!system2!system3!yourfile

       is not permitted. Use uusend(1) instead.

       When  invoking uucp from csh(1), the `!' character must be
       prefixed by  the	 `\'  escape  to  inhibit  csh's  history
       mechanism. (Quotes are not sufficient.)

       Uucp refuses to copy a file that does not give read access
       to `other'; that is, the file  must  have  at  least  0444
       modes.

       Uucp  currently	cannot copy multiple files in one command
       invocation.  For now, use one uucp command for  each  file
       you wish to copy.

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