uuto — Copy files to users on remote UUCP systems

Format

uuto [–mp] file … destination

The uuto utility is fully supported for compatibility with older UNIX systems. However, because it is no longer supported by POSIX.2 IEEE standard 1003.2-1992, do not use this utility for applications intended to be portable to other UNIX systems.

Description

uuto is a simplified method of using uucp to copy a file, or files, to a user on another system. file is a file, or files, on your system. The destination has the following form:

system!user

where system is a system known to uucp and user is the login name of a user on the remote system. You can use uuname to list the names of the remote system known to uucp. Make sure to enter the user name in the correct case. Otherwise, the recipient will not be able to use uuto to receive the files that you sent.

uuto sends files to the UUCP public directory on the remote system. In particular, the files are sent to the directory:

pubdir/receive/user/sendsystem

where pubdir is the UUCP public directory, user is the user's name specified in the destination, and sendsystem is the name of the sending system.

The recipient is notified by mail when the files arrive. If several files are sent, the recipient is notified when the last file arrives. Depending on the nature of the remote system, the recipient can move files from this directory using the uupick utility or by using the system copy commands.

Options

–m: Sends the user a note when the copy is completed.
–p: Places files in spool directory before transfer to remote system.

Localization

uuto uses the following localization environment variables:

LANG
LC_ALL
LC_CTYPE
LC_MESSAGES
LC_LCTIME
NLSPATH

See Localization for more information.

Files

uuto uses the following files:

/usr/lib/uucp/config: The configuration file for UUCP contains the list of systems that uucp knows about. This configuration file is compiled from a number of text configurations using the uucc utility. (See uucc for more information.)
/usr/spool/uucppublic: The public UUCP directory.

Usage notes

uuto is a shell script.
uuto does not convert files to ASCII. If you use uuto to send a file to an ASCII system, it must be converted to ASCII after it has been sent.

Portability

X/Open Portability Guide, UNIX systems.

Related information

uucc, uulog, uupick, uustat, uux