HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bell@pokie.enet.dec.com (Mike J. Bell)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Elm?
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:40:53 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Here we go again.

Elm is a graphical mail reader, right?  Can someone pass it along?

I appreciate it!

Mike
From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: Heirarchical News Storage for AmigaUUCP
Distribution: world
Reply-To: adastra!mbs@Virginia.Edu
Date: 7 Apr 92 07:52:12 EDT
Organization: Private UUCP Node

In article <johnv.08ar@tower.actrix.gen.nz> johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz (John Veldthuis) writes:
>I agree that the news packages may be able to be changed but what about
>news importers. DLG uses one to transfer news from DUUCP to it's message
>format.

DLG is not a problem. It uses directory specifications to map to the newsgroup
name. The DLG sysops will have an extra step to go through when installing this
software.

>OF course I don't mind the directory structure. What I do mind is the
>mindless waste of disk space. I do not get any groups that are over the
>limit. My harddisk space is very limited most of the time.
>Alt/sys/amiga/uucp|uucppatches alone takes up 3 extra blocks, 1536 bytes of
>space that could be used for news.

Mindless waste? Hardly. It's a feature that many people have requested. You
don't get any groups over 30 characters today -- but you may tomorrow. Or the
next day. NOW, you have a way to support it.

Think of this feature as the cost of me implementing hardlinks a few months ago.
You still come out WAY ahead.

>> a piece of code that is executed a significant number of times, and could
>> result in a visible slowdown of the code. This may not be true in your reader
>> of choice. It sure is in DNews (and I'm working on other optimizations, too).
>
>It should only need to be done once for each newsgroup.

I invite you to code your own alternative. What you have suggested is a good
idea, but would require significant changes to DNews.

>I am all for going forward with software but please make sure that it is
>still compatible with programs that depend on it. I may get the update that
>implements this new way of doing things and suddenly all my other software
>does not work correctly. It takes time to change all those utilities that
>have been built up to work one way. Some may never be changed and will
>force the user to stay with the old version.

There comes a time at which compatibility has to be broken.  As I've said
before, the only utility I'm aware of that breaks, is one I wrote myself:
DeleteEmpty.

If a user refuses to update to the latest-and-greatest, well, that is their
choice. However, they can't expect to get additional features and functionality
added any more. Support then becomes their burden.

I don't ask for anyone to run this enhancement. I haven't gotten any response
back from Matt as to what he wants to do with it, other than the conversation
that took place here a couple of months ago, at which point he agreed with what
I say now: take the heat for lack of compatibility, but continue to move
forward.
--
  //   Michael B. Smith
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From: mcuddy@fensende.Rational.COM (Mike Cuddy)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: OwnDevUnit.library and getty...
Summary: this is probably a FAQ..
Date: 15 Apr 92 06:51:11 GMT

Sorry for not paying attention, as I'm sure this is a FAQ, but:
Where do I get a getty and uucico that work with OwnDevUnit.library?

--Mike Cuddy (mcuddy@rational.com, fensende!mcuddy@apple.com)
"...He's a UNIX hack and he's okay, he works all night and he sleeps all day..."
Well, where I come from, we have a saying: "If you're not going to grab the 
bull by the horns while the iron is in the fire, then get off the pot." 
(There are a lot of chemicals in the water where I come from.) -- Dave Barry
From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Amiga GRn 1.29 almost ready
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.28 2/25/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:01:41 PST
Organization: Amiga makes it possible

I've fixed pretty much all I really care to in GRn for the
time being.  V1.29 has been compiled and tested.  It is compiled
with DICE now, but DICE complains about some of the varargs type
stuff I was able to get away with in SAS without prototypes.  This
is the only thing that is keeping me from releasing the source
to the public so you guys can hack in all the neato features you
want.  Also, it can then be made part of the next UUCP release :)

The main bug fix in 1.29 is that _some_ newsreaders out there like
to truncate the terminating angle bracket (greater than > sign) from
the refs list.  This causes a GURU.

GRn does not support CNews type directory structure, but I did send
the source to someone who promised to add that as well as NNTP support
and return the sources to me.  I haven't heard back from him though :(

That's pretty much it, for now.  I will post 1.29 to .patches and
upload it to ab20 soon.

--
Author of Amiga GRn, MailMinder, Budokan, Beyond Dark Castle, Dark Castle,
and Genesis Dick Tracy and Marble Madness.
Mike Schwartz  (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)
1124 Fremont Ave.
Los Altos, CA 94024
From: rwm@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca (Russell McOrmond)
Date: 8 Apr 92 09:08:39 EST
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: Amiga UUCP 1.15d

georg@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Georg Sassen) writes:
>rwm@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca (Russell McOrmond) writes:

>>  I'm curious if NComm supports OwnDevUnit.library?  I know that VLT, 

>Don't know about owndevunit, but NComm 2.0 supports the normal "lockserial"

  AmigaUUCP, as well as pretty much any other communications sofware I know is
moving towards OwnDevUnit.library - I'll email the author about it and make
sure that he has the library.  It's so convenient to just run your terminal
and not have to worry about what any other program may be doing with the
port.  When I run eithor VLT or TERM, Welmat gives up that line for me and
it is so easy for me to switch between the various phone lines and Welmat
is always then available to answer the call on the 'other' line without 
having to actually DO anything.

>Georg Sassen, D-5100 Aachen,+49-241-875158 subnet: georg@bluemoon.tunix.sub.org
>georg@bluemoon.GUN.de, georg@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de, 2:242/7.11@fido
--
  Opinions expressed in this message are my Own. I represent nobody else.
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  Gateway for .Amiga.OCUnix.On.Ca    Current WELMAT 'keeper of sources'.
From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Dealing with bogus "From " lines
Distribution: world
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:24:03 PST
Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica

--
uucp:src/sendmail.c has two sequences that look like so in it:

	DumpHeaderInfo(fi, RCVR_UUCP, 1, 0, "");
	pos = ftell(fi);

	if (ROpt) {
	    if (fgets(ScrBuf, sizeof(ScrBuf), rfi))
		fputs(ScrBuf, fi);
	}
	while (fgets(ScrBuf, sizeof(ScrBuf), rfi)) {
	    if (ScrBuf[0] == 'F' && strncmp(ScrBuf, "From ", 5) == 0)
		strins(ScrBuf, " ");
	    fputs(ScrBuf, fi);
	}


As far as I can tell, the only purpose of the "if (Ropt) { ... }" is
to confuse mail readers by failing to guard against bogus "From" lines
as the first line of the message (Wanna guess what made me go looking
for this?). After all, the header info has already been dumped.

Since this seems counter-productive, I've commented out that if. If
there's a reason it should be there, could someone let me know?

	Thanx,
	<mike

P.S. - there appears to be a bug report form that Matt uses for
collecting things like this, but I can't find anything on it in the
distribution. Could someone mail me whatever there is for it?
From: liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: How do I get Dcron to only phone until it is successful
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:03:52 PST
Distribution: world
Organization: It's Home, really...

    I have a crontab file that looks like this...

#<min> <hour> <day> <month> <dayofweek>  [<command>]
0,20,40,55 1-3 * * *   uucico -b -samigans

This phones the host every 20ish mins for a while inorder to get a feed. What
I would like is for it not to phone if a previous one is still on the phone,
and to NOT phone once it has been successfull. The host I get a feed from only
connects upstream once in 24hrs, so all the other calls are a bit wasted.

Thanks for any light you might shed...

--
****  Liam Greenwood	    * Don't tell my Mother I'm a programmer...   ****
****  Wanganui, N.Z.	    * she thinks I'm a piano player in a brothel ****
		   **** liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz ****					  *
From: hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP?
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 01:22:44 EST
Organization: Phaedra V

In article <bmaple.053i@burner.UUCP>, Bob Maple writes:
> You can only send/request a file from a site adjacent to you (one you call), right?

No.  You need to fully specify the "!" path. eg.:

uucp neighbor!intermediate!site!file ~/myfile

-- 
# Hugh D. Gamble  UUCP: hugh@kink.UUCP  Domain: hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca      %
# AMIX: HGAMBLE  bix: hgamble  voice: +1 416 267 6159                         %
# "My Canada includes California."                                            %
From: mark@legend.akron.oh.us (Mark E Daniel)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP?
Followup-To: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Distribution: world
Reply-To: mark@legend.akron.oh.us
Date: 14 Apr 92 23:53:10 EDT
Organization: The Legend BBS Public Access (216)825-2747

In article <Reid_Bishop.0adc@a68k.denver.CO.US> Reid_Bishop@a68k.denver.CO.US (Reid Bishop) writes:
>
> I'm pretty certain that is the case for sure.  I don't think systems would
> let you 'route' files through them.

I am told that real implemintations of the UUCP command will let you route
files through other hosts as long as all the permissions are set up
on all the machines.  However, I tried this and it didn't work
despite the fact that all the permissions were set on the
remote.
--
Mark E Daniel (Keeper of legend) Data/Fax (v.32bis/G3) +1 (216) 825-2747
Internet: mark@legend.akron.oh.us   UUCP: Yes, why?
How to look for things that are lost - convince yourself you're looking for
something else.
From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: Heirarchical News Storage for AmigaUUCP
Distribution: world
Reply-To: adastra!mbs@Virginia.Edu
Date: 7 Apr 92 07:59:50 EDT
Organization: Private UUCP Node

In article <mwm.03ke@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer) writes:
>Since you can't run the two systems at the same time, making this a
>compile-time option seems to be the obvious choice. That means people
>who don't like the distributed binary will have to recompile, but that
>seems a bit better than having to rewrite it. It also means you don't
>have to do your switch test at run time.

Obvious choice, true. I'm not willing to support two versions, though. If
someone wants to take what I've written and add that, then they are welcome
to. Note that there are NO other options in AmigaUUCP controlled by a compile-
time option.

>Question: Could someone count the number of extra blocks this would
>take up as a percentage of the whole for "typical" Amiga sites?

Who knows what a typical Amiga site is? There are people out there who get only
two or three groups, and there are people like me who get well over a hundred.
I've heard/seen rumors of people getting complete feeds via AmigaUUCP, but they
are unconfirmed. I KNOW people getting complete feeds running C-News under
AmigaDOS. It has this SAME directory structure that is being implemented here.

I've done some scanning of the UUMap for "amiga" (fgrep -i) and it indicates
several hundred sites out there -- but only a few dozen seem to be active in
this newsgroup.

As a general answer, the number of extra blocks consumed is significantly less
than the number saved by using hardlinks for cross-posted articles. It is still
a major win on 2.04 and above. For 1.3 and below, it is a choice that has to
be made....
--
  //   Michael B. Smith
\X/    ...!uunet!virginia!adastra!mbs
From: mark@legend.akron.oh.us (Mark E Daniel)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: Amiga UUCP 1.15d
Followup-To: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Distribution: world
Reply-To: mark@legend.akron.oh.us
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:01:42 EDT
Organization: The Legend BBS Public Access (216)825-2747

In article <bobl.32nz@bobsbox.rent.com> bobl@bobsbox.rent.com (Bob Lindabury, SysAdmin) writes:
>
> In article <dac.02xi@dacami.UUCP> dac@dacami.UUCP (David Culberson) writes:
> lockserial PathToNComm:ncomm
>
> This will run ncomm and lock the serial port. (not in that order)

However, NComm detaches itself from the CLI that started it, and lockserial
will be led to believe the task has finished.  I used to have to disable
getty and restart it with a script.  However, NComm 2.0 has a special
feature which will lockserial and work fine with getty.  I use it all
the time.
--
Mark E Daniel (Keeper of legend) Data/Fax (v.32bis/G3) +1 (216) 825-2747
Internet: mark@legend.akron.oh.us   UUCP: Yes, why?
How to look for things that are lost - convince yourself you're looking for
something else.
From: bobl@bobsbox.rent.com (Bob Lindabury, SysAdmin)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: Elm?
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:10:53 GMT
Organization: Raven Enterprises -- Piscataway, NJ USA
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.28 2/25/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz

In article <6489@shodha.enet.dec.com> bell@pokie.enet.dec.com (Mike J. Bell) writes:
>
>Here we go again.
>
>Elm is a graphical mail reader, right?  Can someone pass it along?
>
>I appreciate it!
>
>Mike

Elm is not a graphical mail reader.  It is just the best mail reader for
AmigaUUCP until Mike comes out with GMail. <grin>  Right Mike!?!

-- Bob

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    UUCP: ...rutgers!bobsbox!bobl	       | 25 Raven Avenue
  BitNet: bobl%bobsbox.rent.com@pucc	       | Piscataway, NJ 08854
  Home #: 908/560-7353			       | 908/271-8878
From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: OPENING a shell with getty
Distribution: world
Reply-To: adastra!mbs@Virginia.Edu
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:53:48 EDT
Organization: Private UUCP Node

Note: Distribution changed to 'world'.

In article <1992Apr6.124046.11046@utkux1.utk.edu> mckeehan@utkux1.utk.edu (William McKeehan) writes:
>I know someone out there has done it...but I can't...any and all help
>would be greatly appreciated...

It's really no big deal....     :)

>Please someone...that has the	ability to have getty run a shell
>after they login, please reply to this message so that I can
>ask you some questions...

The MOST important thing is that you have the fifo-handler and fifo.library
that were posted to alt.sys.amiga.uucp.patches a few months ago, and you are
running AmigaUUCP 1.15D.

Once those are true, then this is the appropriate entry in your passwd file:

mbs,mypassword,204,2,(remote-shell),ram:,*

It works fine. Make SURE that you don't just hang-up the phone though -- do
an endcli first! I think that there is a bug in fifo-handler in regards to
that.....but I can't seem to find the sources for it anywhere to check it out.
--
  //   Michael B. Smith
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From: bell@pokie.enet.dec.com (Mike J. Bell)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: RE: Grn
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:35:19 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation



So how does one "pickup" Grn?  Can someone PLEASE mail it to me?  I have more
than sufficient space here.

I'd appreiciate it.

Mike
From: smythe@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Matthew Aljian)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: CBatch missing from uucp-1.15d?
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:52:42 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz


After much frustration trying to figure out why my batchnews was not working,
I found that I do not have the "cbatch" file in my UUCP:c directory (or
anywhere).  I assume that this is my problem.

Has the "cbatch" program been mistakenly omitted from uucp-1.15d?  I "listed"
my uucp zoo archives and couldn't find the "cbatch" program (although I did
find (and do have) the MAN page...whoopee).  I got the three disks from
ab20.larc.nasa.gov in
     /usenet/comp.binaries.amiga/volume91/communications/uucp-1.15d

Am I going completely mad?  Does the "cbatch" file actually exist in any of
the three archives?

Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

-- 
   Brian M. Aljian
   smythe@stallion.santa-cruz.ca.us
From: mk@mkrara.rara.sub.org (Michael P. Krauss)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: How do I get Dcron to only phone until it is successful
Distribution: world
Reply-To: mk@mkrara.rara.sub.org
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.28 2/25/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz
Date: 12 Apr 92 23:42:23 CET
Organization: This is my private box !

In article <liam.02pw@durie.amigans.gen.nz> you wrote:
[...]
>This phones the host every 20ish mins for a while inorder to get a feed. What
>I would like is for it not to phone if a previous one is still on the phone,
>and to NOT phone once it has been successfull. The host I get a feed from only
>connects upstream once in 24hrs, so all the other calls are a bit wasted.

Create a crontab entry that creates a file in uuspool with the name
C.siteAPOLL once a day. (use echo >uuspool:C.siteAPOLL "")
Start uucico every 20 mins with the -r1 parameter.
if uucico is successfull, it will rename the C.-file to E.siteAPOLL.
Delete that File right before you create a new C.-file fron dcron.
If you dont delete it, uucico will loop while it is connected during the
second successfull call.
If you want, you can create a file like C.siteAdate with an AREXX script.
you can then ommit the deletion of the E.-file for logging if you need that.

>Thanks for any light you might shed...

You're welcome...

>****  Liam Greenwood       * Don't tell my Mother I'm a programmer...   ****

Ciao
--
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From: loydb@fnordbox.UUCP (Loyd Blankenship)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: crash!
Distribution: world
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:09:47 CST
Organization: Texas Net Illuminati

In the past month or so, I've started getting 1 guru a day. I'm running
1.10 under Dos 2.04 on an Amiga 3000 w/ 10 megs of ram and 155 megs hd.
I've actually seen it crash once -- when it connected with a remote
system.

The guru error # is 8100 000C.

Any ideas?

Loyd

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From: bmaple@burner.UUCP (Bob Maple)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: UUCP?
Date: 11 Apr 92 23:52:05 GMT
Organization: The Back Burner BBS, Lakewood CO (via C-Net Amiga)

I've been playing with the "uucp" command lately, but have a question..

You can only send/request a file from a site adjacent to you (one you call), right?

--- Via UCI v0.11 Beta (C-Net Amiga)

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Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mwills@su102c (Scott Wills)
Subject: Re: Summary Re: Avatex 1200 Modem Problem with AmiUUCP 1.15d Solved
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 20:29:10 GMT
Reply-To: mwills@x102a.ess.harris.com (M. Scott Wills)
Organization: Harris Corporation, Government Aerospace Systems Division.
Keywords: Avatex 1200 Modem UUCP uucico hayes DTR

mwills@su102c (Scott Wills) writes:

>I wrote:

>>I am really pleased with uucp on my Amiga, but I'm having two problems
>>with my old Avatex 1200 modem:

OK, one more problem.  Note that I have a 1200, not a 1200HC.  There
is no dip setting to disable auto answer on power up, nor is there any
non-volatile memory (I think) to remember the previous auto answer
state.  Sooo... I thought I'd set dcron to send a "disable auto
answer" command to the modem every 15 minutes or so (in case the modem
gets switched on after the computer.

Now, is the desired command "ATAD" or "ATZ"?  I remember these two
commands distinctly, but don't remember their meaning (yes, RTM is
still not an option :-(.  I think ATAD means "attention, auto answer
disable," but what is ATZ?

If anyone has a better solution, please email me.

Desired behavior: active-only uucp, modem never answers the phone, so
my wife can get phone voice calls.  The modem stays on all the time so
dcron can call my Unix box and exchange email as needed.
"getty -B1200 -0 ATAD" in my s:crontab is what I had in mind, but this
leaves a getty running on every other invocation, even though I don't
want it accepting calls.
--

					- Scott
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From: bobl@bobsbox.rent.com (Bob Lindabury, SysAdmin)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: Amiga UUCP 1.15d
Date: 6 Apr 92 16:16:00 GMT
Organization: Raven Enterprises -- Piscataway, NJ USA
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.28 2/25/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz

In article <dac.02xi@dacami.UUCP> dac@dacami.UUCP (David Culberson) writes:
>
>  I just upgraded to version 1.15d, from 1.08.  Two things I noticed
>missing.  Using the "0" key no longer goes back a message in dnews, while
>the "." stil pages forward.  Also, when I have dcron and getty running in
>the background, I can no longer load my term program.	(Ncomm 1.95B)  It
>seems Getty no longer freely gives up the serial port to other programs.
>Is this a bug, or a feature?
>
>		-David
>
>P.s.  So far, I think I like the older version of Dnews better.  What does
>v1.15 have that 1.08 doesn't?
>
>--
>( dac@dacami.UUCP - cis.ohio-state.edu!n8emr!bluemoon!dacami!dac ) Amiga//
>( - David Culberson - )  Have any old computers or terminals for sale?\X/


AmigaUUCP 1.15 works.  1.08 had bugs and doesn't support a ton of new
features that 1.15 does.  Didn't you read any of the docs?  In the text
files that comes with the 1.15 release is a file called README.NOW.  I
suggest you read it over to see what changes have taken place since 1.08
which was lightyears ago.

If you are running 2.04, I also suggest you pickup GRn which basically
blows DNews out of the water.

I'm not sure about Ncomm but I think you have to use the new locking
feature in AmigaUUCP (well, it's not that new because 1.08 is so old).
You either make a script that calls lockserial or you type the
following:

lockserial PathToNComm:ncomm

This will run ncomm and lock the serial port. (not in that order)

-- Bob

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