From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: Need help with UUCP
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:14:11 GMT

king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist) writes:

>Hi there.  I've just installed SLS on my system at home and I'm trying
>to convert my BBS from Waffle to Linux.  I'm a Linux newbie, but I've
>been using (not administrating) Unix systems for years and I know the
>rudiments of UUCP from running Waffle.  Gear your answers
>accordingly...  :-)

You could always run Unix Waffle (like I and several others do).  That
way you've already got experience with the BBS side of things and all
you need to learn is the unix version of news/mail/uucp. Connecting Waffle
and the unix news/mail/uucp is easy and well documented.

>First off, is there a reference I can look at to help me with this?
>I've looked through the FAQ, the META-FAQ and the NET FAQ.  None of them
>really seemed to do more than mention that Linux is capable of UUCP.

to help with what ? what was the question there ?

Grab the O'Reilly+Associates book "managing uucp and usenet" if you want
to learn how to do that.

>My current problem is trying to get uugetty and uucico to play nicely
>together on the same serial port.  I can successfully run each program
>individually (I can run uugetty and get a login prompt, or run uucico
>and poll my mail host), but not both at the same time.  If I've got
>uugetty enabled on that port then I can't dial out.  How do I resolve
>this?  I assume I have to somehow disable uugetty while I run uucico,
>but how?

you have a misconfigured uugetty.  Works great here and many other
places.  The whole idea is that you obviously can only do one thing at
one time on one serial port.  uugetty helps stop things from stomping on
each other...if you try to call uucico when somebody's already logged in
remotely on that line, it'll exit gracefully and log a 'port in use' message.

>On another topic, anyone know of any screen-oriented text-editors for
>the "casual" user?  The (two) users of my board are *NOT*
>computer-literate types, and making them learn vi or emacs just to send
>mail messages seems a bit extreme.  The editor doesn't need to have any
>fancy search and replace functions, or parenthesis matching or anything
>else a programmer needs.  Just something to enter text, with automatic
>wordwrap.

please, ask this question in comp.editors and let the religious wars 
begin somewhere other than comp.os.linux...

There are dozens of editors available in unix and everybody has their own
preferences.  If you stick with Waffle under linux, you can use the lousy
built-in editor.  If you don't, you'll need something like vi or 'joe'
(don't know if you can run that one remotely) or micro-emacs or any of the
other usual candidates...

seriously, please take the editor wars to mail or to comp.editors...

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