Editing UUCP (section)

{{short description|Suite of computer programs and protocols}}
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| name                   = UUCP
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| author                 = [[Mike Lesk]]
| developer              = [[AT&T Bell Laboratories]]
| released               = {{Start date and age|1979}}
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| operating system       = [[Unix]] and [[Unix-like]], [[DOS]], [[OS/2]], [[OpenVMS]], [[AmigaOS]], [[classic Mac OS]], [[CP/M]]
| genre                  = [[Command (computing)|Command]]
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'''UUCP''' ('''Unix-to-Unix Copy''')<ref>{{cite book|title=UNIX(TM) TIME-SHARING SYSTEM: UNIX PROGRAMMER'S MANUAL, Seventh Edition, Volume 1|date=January 1979|publisher=Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated|location=Murray Hill, New Jersey|url=http://web.cuzuco.com/~cuzuco/v7/v7vol1.pdf|access-date=2018-02-20|archive-date=2016-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160429022722/http://web.cuzuco.com/~cuzuco/v7/v7vol1.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> is a suite of [[computer program]]s and [[communications protocol|protocol]]s allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of [[computer file|file]]s, [[email]] and [[netnews]] between [[computer]]s.

A command named {{code|uucp}} is one of the programs in the suite; it provides a user interface for requesting file copy operations.  The UUCP suite also includes {{code|uux}} (user interface for remote command execution), {{code|uucico}} (the communication program that performs the file transfers), {{code|uustat}} (reports statistics on recent activity), {{code|uuxqt}} (execute commands sent from remote machines), and {{code|uuname}} (reports the UUCP name of the local system).  Some versions of the suite include [[uuencoding|{{code|uuencode}}]]/{{code|uudecode}} (convert 8-bit binary files to 7-bit text format and vice versa).

Although UUCP was originally developed on [[Unix]] in the 1970s and 1980s, and is most closely associated with [[Unix-like]] systems, UUCP implementations exist for several non-Unix-like operating systems, including [[DOS]], [[OS/2]], [[OpenVMS]] (for VAX hardware only), [[AmigaOS]],<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://aminet.net/comm/uucp | title=Aminet - Search }}</ref> [[classic Mac OS]], and even [[CP/M]].