From: hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Will the best xferstat uucico please stand up?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:24:30 EST
Keywords: xferstat uucico source 
Summary: Where's the source, and which exe works?
Distribution: world
Organization: Phaedra V

[ long detailed technical detail follows, in a somewhat grumpy tone ]
[ just in case you can't tell. :-) ]

I can't live with the duucp 1.16 distribution uucico that doesn't
support xferstat, but I don't know which executable to use, or which
source or diffs to use to make one. I'm on the verge of giving up on
1.16 and going back to 1.15 because of some other bugs, but if I can
at least get this cleared up I might feel more inclined to spend some
time with the 1.16 sources, enforcer et al. and a good debugger.

I only started testing out 1.16 because a pre-release version of
gnuemacs 18.58-1.26 didn't like the 1.15 fifo handler (don't ask, the
released version is better). (I tried mailserving the 1.16 fifo sources
from amiga.physik but it wasn't in amiga/new as previously posted. If
someone could tell me exactly where it can be ftped from or email me
the source, I would be much obliged) Once I got started, I figured I
might as well work on fixing up the sendmail "." bug again (as
previously fixed and bug reported for 1.15), try and find the enforcer
hits in getty, and track down why 1.16 locks up the system several
times a week under heavy in and out mail and news use 24 hours a day.

The distribution uucico has no version string (i.e. the Amiga version
standard is not supported) but "uident uucico" says it is version
V1.16.23 May 08 1992. the binary is 53528 bytes. If I recompile uucico
from the 1.16 source distribution using the net distribution of dice,
I get a different executable 53144 bytes with the same uident version
numbers. I wouldn't be surprised if Matt compiled the binary
distribution with a signifigantly different version of the compiler
but it still bothers me that it's *smaller* when I compile it. In any
case, no executable from that source is going to make me happy, it was
just a test.

I have a posting by John Bickers from Jun 3 with diffs to put the
xferstat support from 1.15 back into 1.16 uucico, but I haven't tried
applying it to the 1.16 source because he says it doesn't include the
"G" protocol support that was in 1.15, and I actually try to use that
stuff.

I have 2 binaries for 1.16 uucico with xferstat that came from 2
different neighboring uucp sites that run 1.16. I have no idea where
the sources are or who compiled them. If anyone knows, please post or
mail me.

One of them is 54720 bytes, reports the same uident version numbers as
the distribution binary, but the compile date on uucico.c is Jun 09
1992.

The other one is 50792 bytes, reports the same uident version numbers,
and the compile date is May 31 1992.

If anyone has a completely working 1.16 uucico with xferstat and G
support, preferably with sources, please let me know and post or mail
me.

P.S. How about anyone vieing for the pain of taking over as KOTS,
trying to drop Matt a line so we can get the accumulation of bug fixes
back into a unified stream?

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