mwm@eris.UUCP (03/14/87)
In article <551@puff.WISC.EDU> avery@puff.WISC.EDU (Aaron Avery) writes: > A friend of mine and I have toyed with the idea of putting a uucp on >the amiga. As near as we can tell, not only isn't source available (at a >'reasonable' cost, and understandable), there doesn't even seem to be a >protocol description available. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, as >this doesn't seem reasonable. Essentialy correct. Barring the HDB UUCP which I haven't looked at, source to UUCP means getting a Unix source license. The only description of the protocol is a Lauren Weinstein (sp?) paper from a Usenix a couple of years ago, and he now says that it is wrong. The HDB UUCP is available from the AT&T Toolkit. I think it also requires a SysV source license, and costs several thousand $'s. I doubt if there's a protocol description. Of course, porting UUCP (if you could get the source) is possible. But UUCP is _UGLY_. Second only to the C/80 printf code. An alternative might be to get ACSNET. This is the Australian answer to UUCPNet. I Htink it's free. You then have to convince a feed to run it for you. Note that netnews and UUCP are not the same thing. You can get netnews without UUCP (we do), and without Unix (it runs on the mostly VM & VMS BITNet). If you really want Netnews on your Amiga, get the AmeriStar TCP/IP implementation, and port rrn (which can be had for free, I suspect). While you're at it, make sure your Unix system runs POP, and write a POP client for the Amiga so you can read mail from it. One alternative I've looked into (for feeding VMS netnews, not for the Amiga) is a kermit-based netnews feed. Hmmm - given the vt100 script facility, that wouldn't be to hard..... Sigh. I'm _not_ going to do that, though. If you're interested enough to tackle it, let me know (by _mail_), and I'll write up a description of what has to happen at both ends for you. Please let me know how much you know about _running_ a netnews site. <mike -- But I'll survive, no you won't catch me, Mike Meyer I'll resist the urge that is tempting me, ucbvax!mwm I'll avert my eyes, keep you off my knee, mwm@berkeley.edu But it feels so good when you talk to me. mwm@ucbjade.BITNET