HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: richard@cbmozq.adsp.sub.org (Richard Carde Australia)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: Attempt: Supra+GPFax+Getty (FAILED) (fwd)
Date: 4 Nov 92 06:25:28 GMT
Reply-To: richard@cbmozq.adsp.sub.org (Richard Carde Australia)
Organization: CBM Australia - Developer Access Queensland

In article <2172@sousa.ltn.dec.com> drew@cgou11.cgo.dec.com writes:
>
>Richard Try me at: drew@bootrom.mtroyal.ab.ca

Ok, thanks.  I have a copy of the FaxGetty (4 now, thanks all!) and am setting
my system up to test it.  (unfortunately my 240Mb Quantum is in for repairs
so I have to move all work to a 80Mb drive and put the rest on tape)!

 >Ok, heres the good news. I found out what my problem was, seems that GPFAX
 >wants to own the port exclusively to initialize the modem, and then it
 >will happily sit around in the background waiting to be called via arex script
 >that would send it the RECEIVENOW cmd. If you start GPFAX with -S flag and
 >then ask it to do something with the port, it does not work.
 >
 > But This all works fine if I:
 >    1. Start GPFAX (via run <Nil: >nil: -NP -L -Q)
 >    2. Send it an unlisten
 >    3. Then start getty
 >    4. Entry in getty calls RX GPFAX:FAX_RECEIVE.gpf on "fax" login.
 >    5. FAX_RECEIVE.gpf sends getty receivenow cmd.
 >    
 > What I was trying todo before was start GPFAX via getty since the modem was
 > already setup properly anyway, but it seems that GPFAX likes to init the
 > modem and wont accept anything until it has. (This seems like some thing
 > that could easily be improved upon in GPFAX).
 
I will look into this ASAP!  I did not think the RECEIVENOW command would
try any init.  (Perhaps there is a problem when it first open's the serial
port - it MAY init then... silly!)

 > many faxes anyway and rather save the memory). I also made use of the
 > feature of GPFAX to execute an arex script on receipt of new fax. This allows
 > me to send uucp mail to myself notifying of new fax, and the file name.

Let us know of any other commands (via Email) that you might find useful.
These may go into a newer version (or patch).
 
 > Did find one MAJOR BUG in GPFAX (new patches installed) after starting GPFAX
 > and sending it unlisten as above, if you uniconify GPFAX and click on quit
 > it GURUS. If you send it an arexx LISTEN, then click on quit everythings fine.
 > So use an arexx script to stop gpfax if it is currently 'unlistening'.
 
Thanks - will check it out!

 > Just to make it clear this is all with SUPRAFAX modem with latest ROMS
 > and GPFAX with latest patches. Modem settings are simply AT&F2M0S0=1&W

 > If usefull to anyone I could post or forward my arex script(s).

Please Email them to me at this address, I will save them aside for others.
If they are fool proof, we may see them on the distribution disks in
furture.

 > regards,
 > Steve.


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From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: uudecode & BMS
Date: 8 Nov 92 12:52:45 GMT
Organization: Well, I haven't decided on a name yet...
X-NewsSoftware: GRn-beta 1.16g (11.07.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <kellym.02vd@wowee.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> kellym@wowee.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Kelly Martin) writes:
> Can anyone tell me how to *manually* uudecode a BMS received file? The
> format is different from what I'm familiar, and circumstances won't allow
> 'BMS batch' to do it for me...

Get the BMS103.LZH release, which includes source.

One of the sources is "bmsencode.c". Compile it with TEST defined.

        bmsencode e filename        -- encodes a file to stdout
        bmsencode d filename        -- decodes a file to stdout
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From: overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us (Carlos Amezaga [Postmaster])
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,alt.radio.scanner,rec.radio.amateur.packet,rec.ham-radio.packet
Subject: Ham Radio, AmigaNos, and Feeds over the air.
Keywords: Ham, Ham Radio, UUCP, Amiga, AmigaNos
Distribution: world
Date: 14 Nov 92 15:21:08 EST
Organization: Megalith Mail/News Server

Howdy Netters,

	Now I have heard on and off on different parts of the net
that there are those out there who are able to get a UUCP feed or
SLIP type feed over the radio.  Just recently I bumped into a Ham
operator who says that it is done all the time.  

	So my question is, is it possible to get such a feed using
an Amiga using AmigaNos?  From what I have heard and read AmigaNos
was created by a Ham operator to be used over the Air, but that it
has been used over phone lines as well.

	What I would be specifically interested in would be a small
setup using 2Meter or 8Meter.  Don't flame me I am not of the Radio
world and don't know much.  I am just going by what I discussed
with this Ham operator recently.  I would like to use AmigaNos if
that is indeed its purpose or other software suited for this
purpose.  The Ham operator I talked with Suggested 2 or 8 Meter. 
I can't remember which of the two he said, but he suggested this
format because it was not as expensive and because the Antenna
needed would not be a huge affair.  

	Also, I would like to know.  Is there anyone out there in
the Amiga Community doing this already.  If so, could you please
contact me?  I would be very interested in talking with you to find
out more of what is involved.  LICENCES, EQUIPMENT, COSTS,
SOFTWARE, Etc...

Thank and take care..

Carlos
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From: hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCICO & HD Access
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 20:20:18 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Phaedra V

In article <overlord.0fy4@megalith.miami.fl.us>, Carlos Amezaga [Postmaster] writes:

> 	Incorect again.  The -P option is to specify the segment

You're right. In fact the 1.16 distribution uucico doesn't even admit
to having a protocol option because it's not fully implemented.
The segment size option is probably "P" because "S" and "s" are
already taken for systemname. The packet size option is probably "n"
because "P" and "p" are taken. We need a bigger alphabet. 2 byte
character Chinese anyone? :-)

> 	The -p options description is not mentioned in the manual.

You're the second person to say that, but it's not true. It's in the
standard man page and in the right places:

SYNOPSIS
	UUCico -D[EVICE] device -U[NIT] unit -Getty -w -r1 -xn -Xn -xx -h0
	       -o -[s/S]system -e -s -7 -p # -pri -d0 -t<timeout> -T<timeout>
----------------------------------------^^^^

	-p #

	-pri		    UUCico ups its priority by 1 during transfer,
			    then downs it by 1 to run uuxqt. (i.e. +1
			    during transer, -1 for uuxqt)

-p uses # rather than 1, maybe that's not clear.

	-P<segsize>	    Set segment size, in powers of two where a
			    segment size of 2 == 64 bytes.  The maximum
			    segment size is 9 (2048 bytes??).
--------------------------------------------^
That should be 8. A long known documentation bug that Matt never fixed.
New KOTS?

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From: wusel@hactar.hanse.de (Kai 'wusel' Siering)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 04:30:53 +0100
Organization: Villa Straylight, Hamburg, FRG
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp,de.comp.sys.amiga.uucp,amiga.uucp
Subject: How about an Archie for BMS?
X-Newsreader: Ann 0.9
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Hi Folks!

     Thanks to a little script (which does basically `bms active | awk
opts | execute in:'), I now have half of the BMS:pub/Files from the sites
hactar's registered with.

     It's really interessting what you poeple have there, there are LOTS
of interessting stuff, thank you for offering it via BMS!

     But there's something that causes be headache: your `files' files are
somewhat, er, `individual' - it's nearly impossible (IMO) to use them for
anything else than manual lookup. But wouldn't it be nice to have
something like the `achie' service for all this BMS sites around?

     With only a little cooperation from you bms-managers out there, this
may become reality! Assuming every BMS site creates a listing of the files
publically available (for the format, see below), it wouldn't be hard to
write a little script (mine will use `grep' and `gawk', an AREXX version
may be possible, too) that takes some regualar expressions (well, with
some MORE work, AmigaDOS patterns would be possible, too) and returns a
list of site/file pairs that match the reg. expressions.  I would offer an
email interface to this script and of course make the scripts available to
everyone ...

     The special format file I am thinking of can be generated quite
easily:

   .key dummy
   .bra {
   .ket }

   list >t:{$$}bmsfiles BMS:pub dates files all lformat="	path=%p%n	note=%c	date=%d %t	prot=%a	size=%l"
   sort t:{$$}bmsfiles bms:pub/bms.files
   delete t:{$$}#? quiet

Please note the tabs, they'll simply make parsing easier. If you have more
directories accessible via BMS, just add another `list'-line (be sure to
say `list >>t...'instead of `list >t...' for subsequent lines).

     Now, all depends on you: If enough of you would support this, I would
start writing the scripts and setup a cron entry which would fetch the
`bms:pub/bms.files' once a week, writing the email interface, invite
everybody to test it - and make the stuff finally available, so other
poeple can setup something simimar, too.

Any comments greatly appreciated!
			kai

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Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
From: Gandalf@cs.sun.ac.za (Gandalf)
Subject: Request for UUen/decode
Summary: Where are they?
Organization: The mirrors in my mind tell me that I'm disorganized...
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 13:53:52 GMT

Could someone please tell me where to get my hands on some good UUencode/
decode progs for the Amiga (pref by FTP)
Or if some kind soul would mail them to me?
Thanx 
Gandalf
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From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: phantom checksum errors with trimnews
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn-beta 1.16g (11.07.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 8 Nov 92 07:55:21 EDT
Organization: Well, I haven't decided on a name yet...

In article <Opal_Sullen.00mn@republik.fidonet.org> Opal_Sullen@republik.fidonet.org (Opal Sullen) writes:
>  G> I don't think, that the config is the problem. Which version of
>  G> uuxqt do you use? I use V.1.16.12 May 08 1992.
>
> i tried running version on it--nothing came back.  it is 21836 bytes.  how
> about yours?

You should have a program in UUCP:C called UIDENT. Enter:

                    uucp:c/uident uucp:c/uuxqt

and it will tell you the version.
--
  //   Michael B. Smith
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Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
From: dtiberio@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Subject: Infinitely Looping Mail List
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:06:08 GMT


	I run about 5 mail lists with around 300 subscribers, and just started
getting a lot of subscribers. Unfortunately some of them keep coming back,
quite a few hundred times (I really don't know for sure as I am afraid to 
call my news feed). Here is a message I got:

--

This report relates to your message 
        of Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:04:18 +0100

Your message was not delivered to   blaz.zupan@uni-mb.si
        for the following reason:
        Message looping detected (please contact local administrator) 

***** The following information is directed towards the local administrator
***** and is not intended for the end user
* 
* DR generated in /PRMD=AC/ADMD=MAIL/C=SI/
*         at Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:07:43 +0100
*
* Converted to RFC 822 at ixgate.gmd.de
*         at Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:17:24 +0100
*
* Delivery Report Contents:
*
* Subject-Submission-Identifier: [/PRMD=org/ADMD=dbp/C=de/;<9211111931.AA07136@zeus.ieee.or]
* Content-Type: p2
* Subject-Intermediate-Trace-Information:  /PRMD=GmD/ADMD=DbP/C=DE/arrival Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:04:18 +0100 action Relayed
* Recipient-Info: blaz.zupan@uni-mb.si,
*         /G=blaz/S=zupan/O=uni-mb/PRMD=ac/ADMD=mail/C=si/;
*         FAILURE reason Unable-To-Transfer (1);
*         diagnostic Loop-Detected (3);
*         last trace () Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:04:18 +0100;
****** End of administration information 




	I noticed that the address given above (blaz.whatever) bounced back
to my sites and to the site I mailed it from. Also, it seems as though 
every 7 people or so  in order on the mail list get some strange message
about broken pipes.

	What I did that may have been the problem is in my user list from
the alias file. It is something like this:


commodore_list:: <s:list_subs/commodore, "|postnews -R s:mail.commodore"


	And the file s:list_subs/commodore had a list of addresses like so:

username@domain
user2@domain2
user3@domain3
user4@domain4

	Does it matter that there were no commas after them? When the mail
was spooled, it made a group of files, each with something like (but this
is from memory):

rmail user1@domain user2@domain user3@domain

	...for about 6 users. I assume that all I need to do is add a comma.


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From: eric@wolf359.UUCP (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: phantom checksum errors with trimnews
Date: 5 Nov 92 04:36:14 GMT
Organization: Engineers in Exile
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <Opal_Sullen.00k4@republik.fidonet.org>, Opal Sullen writes:

> In a message dated Sun  1 Nov 92 19:21, Eric@wolf359.uucp (eric Edwards)
> wrote:
> 
>  EE> Is anyone else still getting checksum errors from trimnews?
> 
> well, i have pushed the stack size up from 80000 to 100000.  when i
> initially increased it from 4096 to 80000 i had tremendous success... it

Hmmm.  I've been running with a stack size of 50000 since before the
errors started appearing.  My hunch is that it is connected the
"extension block" (or whatever).  My spool partition is larger than 49 meg
now.  It was smaller when I was using the 500.

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Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
From: prickesj@cs.aston.ac.uk (SJ PRICKETT,,,,)
Subject: New Amigas
Reply-To: prickesj@cs.aston.ac.uk
Organization: Aston University (Comp Sci)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:04:15 GMT


What is the spec for the Amiga 1200?
From: gerrit@laosinh.stgt.sub.org (Gerrit Heitsch)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: phantom checksum errors with trimnews
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 20:29:41 MET
Distribution: world
Organization: Lao-Sinh project (private UUCP site)

In article <Opal_Sullen.00k4@republik.fidonet.org>, Opal Sullen writes:

> funny you ask, i just started getting them again yesterday after a month or
> so of total reprieve.  i deleted all the files manually then ran QBtools
> and it came back clean.  i have since has several successful sessions... i
> guess because there has been nothing for trimnews to crunch on (2 days hold
> time).
Are you sure, that trimnews is the problem? I run a UUCP-site for
more than 8 months with DUUCP 1.15 and DUUCP 1.16 and never had
a checksum error on my harddisks. I use the trimnews that was included
in the original DUUCP 1.16 archive. The version is V.1.16.02 May 08 1992.
It works without problems on my Amiga 2000 with A2630, GVP S II and 2.04.
Do you allow hardlinks to be used by rnews? I do...

> well, i have pushed the stack size up from 80000 to 100000.  when i
> initially increased it from 4096 to 80000 i had tremendous success... it
The stack size used by the cron cli process, that starts trimnews
every night at 0:33 is 4096 bytes.

> do you think it has something to do w/ the config file or something?
I don't think, that the config is the problem. Which version of
uuxqt do you use? I use V.1.16.12 May 08 1992.

Gerrit

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 lifeform, that is intelligent enough to build atomic weapons can be stupid
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From: DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu (DougBish Bischoff EMT-MAST)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Patches?
Date: 7 Nov 92 00:36:20 GMT
Organization: Penn State University


     Okay, I found UUCP 1.16 on amiga.physik.unizh.ch, and managed to get it
installed on my machine.  I'm now awaiting a feed site.

     NOW someone comes along and mentions patches for this program.  Okay: what
patches?  I have the Dec 1991 upload of UUCP 1.16.  I didn't find any patches
anywhere for it.

     Secondly, for the benefit of the people setting up my feed... and me...
Just what does a feed DO for you?  Does it call your machine when you get mail?
Or does it hold it some mysterious place until you poll it and ask for mail?
Thanks!

-Bish
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From: terje@light.fipnet.fi (Terje Bergstr|m)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: FidoNet <-> usenet software
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 12:12:52 GMT
Summary: FidoNet <-> Usenet gateway-software needed
Organization: Fipnet - Espoo, Finland
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

My problem is this: I have a software package for my FidoNet-point and
another package for Usenet-stuff. This is IMHO terrible waste of disk space
and I have been trying to find a program that converts FidoNet-packets to
RFC-format. This way I could use the same software for uucp- and
fidonet-stuff. So, the program I'm looking for should convert FidoNet
netmail to my mail box and sent email to FidoNet when needed. The program
should of course convert FidoNet echomail in a format usable by AmigaUUCP.

I found a couple of software packages which claim to do what I need. Their
names are Fred and FidoGate. Fred has almost non-existant documentation, so
I had to guess a part of the configuration myself. Obviously I guessed
wrong, because Fred simply didn't do anything. FidoGate isn't written for
Amiga, but unix, so it should be ported before use, which is something I
wouldn't want to do.

Does anyone have software I described in use? Also proper documentation for
Fred would surely help. Please answer via email. I'll post a summary, if
requested.

--
Terje Bergstr|m
terje@light.fipnet.fi

Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
From: gwells@descartes.uwaterloo.ca (geoffrey wells)
Subject: Amiga NFS
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:06:31 GMT

I'm trying to connect to a SUN 3/50 via a serial connection.  I'm going
to use slip and Amiga NOS.  The ultimate solution would be to find a implimentation of Network File System for the Amiga and use that instead.
Unfortunately I don't know if such a beast exists.  If someone knows where
I could get what I need or is running a similar setup I'd love to know.

Regards,
Geoff.

-- 
               "What a fine planet!   I think I'll buy it."

     Later,
     Geoff Wells.                      gwells@descartes.uwaterloo.ca
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From: dtiberio@libws4.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp,de.comp.sys.amiga.uucp,amiga.uucp
Subject: what is BMS?
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:14:25 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook


	What is BMS? I have UUCP connected to my bbs and am interested
in BMS. It sounds like some sort of file fetcher for ftp sites, or
something.


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Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
From: eric@wolf359.UUCP (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: phantom checksum errors with trimnews
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 04:25:23 GMT
Organization: Engineers in Exile
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <mbs.19pd@adastra.cvl.va.us>, Michael B. Smith writes:

> There is evidence to show that if you've run QBTools to fix up a partition
> once you've seen these errors, they will just get worse. If you format, they
> may go away. This is purely circumstantial however.

That's not too improbable.  QBTools does not understand links and attempts
to delete them.  The result is at least an invalid bitmap and there may be
undetected problems as well.  
 
> Personally, I've never had the problem. And no one that has reported the
> problem could go in and look at the diskmap itself, and tell me exactly
> what was going on (well, the V39 problem we resolved that way, more or less,
> but not this one).

I'm certainly no file system expert but I'll give you any info I can.  I
have DiskX on hand. Amiback Tools is on order and may be able to shed more
light on this.

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From: eric@wolf359.UUCP (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: phantom checksum errors with trimnews
Date: 5 Nov 92 04:41:23 GMT
Organization: Engineers in Exile
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <mbs.1978@adastra.cvl.va.us>, Michael B. Smith writes:

> I'd really like to know what disk controllers, and version of firmware/ROM
> each of you is using. And your version of FastFileSystem.

Nothing unusual.  A3000 internal SCSI, Spool partition is Quantum 105S, third
in a four disk chain.  AmigaOS 2.04, ROM file system.

> 
> Also, if the problems continue, you may wish to disable RNEWS from using
> hardlinks, by placing the -h flag on it in the UULib:Config file.

Have there been any real problems traced to hard links?  One thing that
I've found is that Quarterback Tools does not like hard links.  Perfectly
valid links are treated as errors and removed.  This can give the
impresion that there is something wrong with hard links in rnews when, in
fact, the problem is Quarterback Tools.  I have Amiback Tools on order.
Maybe it will be more useful.

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