Awe13.145 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!houxi!houxg!lime!we13!rjk Fri Jan 29 13:34:54 1982 UUCP Transfers more than one machine deep I am on system A. Joe (not his real name) is on system D. The UUCP network is quite linear through B and C as follows: A <--> B <--> C <--> D Joe and I merrily communicate through uucp mail in the standard convention, i.e. mail B!C!D!joe or mail C!B!A!rjk Everything is fine until one day Joe learns that I have a pacman game that he would like. So in vain I try to send the file to joe in the logical sense: uucp -m -njoe pacman B!C!D!~joe Joe has assured me that the full paths to ~joe are wide open. My uucp mails back and tells me that pacman made it to B, at which point I mistakingly assume that B will keep up the flow and send it to C and C to D to joe. Wrong, bisync breath! There is no further invocation of uux on B and C to get it there. What can I do? This situation has come up a couple of times this week, once with a real 'joe', and several times with 'pacman'. Any reasonable suggestions? Randy King we13!rjk ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.