cfchiesa@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Christopher Chiesa) (08/29/89)
In keeping with Netiquette (not to mention an e-mail request from Bob Hassin- ger) (OOPS, I _just did_ "mention it!"), here is a summary of responses to my recent "Fool Questions" posting, in which I requested information on several issues relating to DNET and UUCP on the Amiga. First, many thanks to the respondents: Howard Hull (hull@hao.ucar.edu) - DNET and UUCP Jeff Van Epps (amusing!lordbah%sunrock.East@Sun.COM) - DNET and UUCP Brad Isley (...!gatech!bagend!slammer!brad) - UUCP (If anyone else has written me, and is not listed here - I never got it!) Summary of information: UUCP: Runs successfully on: Ami 500 with 3 megs RAM, 40M hard disk - "floppies only" would probably mean receiving only a very restricted feed: comp.* + rec.* + news.* + sci.* = 2Meg/day - "only 1Meg RAM" may cause problems decompressing compressed news. (model unspecified) with 1.5 megs RAM and two floppies - "it wasn't easy" - most binaries on DF0:, some stuff on DF1:, about 400K available for UUCP'ing to DF1:. "You really need a hard disk." Latest version(s) is/are: AmigaUUCP: version 0.50 \ AmigaMail: version 0.50 >- "includes DCRON (Matt Dillon's AmigaNews: version 0.50 / CRON, not covered by GNU copyright" Available from: William P. Loftus Dynamyx P.O. Box 1481 King of Prussia, PA 19406 (215) 265-6833 UUCP: wpl@creation.UUCP ARPA: creation!wpl@prc.unisys.com - send blank disk w/sufficient return postage, OR $5 per disk and Dynamyx will provide disks/postage. Also apparently "freely redistributable under the terms of the GNU 'copyleft' license." E.g., find someone who already has it and get it from them... :-) ----- DNET: Runs successfully on: Ami 500 with 3M memory and 40M hd (Ami side) - "binaries appear to consume about 390 blocks" BSD Unix systems (*NOT* SYS V Unix; also someone locally reports problems trying to run it on this machine (bsu-cs) under 4.3BSD Reports are "not yet in" on trying it under "MORE/bsd" installed here recently. Latest version is 2.0, recently posted to the comp.binaries.amiga news- group. NOTE: Original copies received at PORT system are INCOMPLETE! Obtainable from: This network, apparently... no "details" sent, although someone is Snail-mailing it to me on disks! -- UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!cfchiesa cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP
walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker) (09/05/89)
In article <10058@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> cfchiesa@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Christopher Chiesa) writes: > DNET: > > Runs successfully on: > > Ami 500 with 3M memory and 40M hd (Ami side) > - "binaries appear to consume about 390 blocks" I've successfully run DNET (as well as my network file system) on a 512k one-drive Amiga 1000. --Doug