Data range used by UUCICO?

Jim Deitch jdeitch at jadpc.cts.com
Mon Mar 25 05:52:46 AEST 1991


In article <1991Mar22.102630.1057 at abekrd.co.uk> garyb at abekrd.co.uk (Gary Bartlett) writes:
>Can anyone tell me the range of data values sent by two communicating UUCICO
>processes.  Is it a full 8-bit range (0-255), a full 7-bit range (0-127) or
>a selected range of characters (eg 32-126)?
>
>I am most interested in finding out whether it uses the ASCII values for DC1/3.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gary
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UUCP uses an 8 bit protocol.  If it didn't how could you copy a binary
and run it?

Jim

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