steve@thelake (Steve Yelvington) (08/26/89)
Several people have asked questions about UUCP implementations for the ST.
I've seen suggestions that there aren't any. That's simply not true. Here
is a list of the ones I know of:
UUMAIL -- public domain, by Dale Schumacher (dal@syntel), currently being
upgraded by John Stanley (john@dynasoft). One program combines
uucico, uuxqt and rmail functions; it execs your favorite editor
to write and your favorite pager to read mail. Up to 26 nodes are
supported (I think). A routing (pathalias) table is supported.
Real news isn't currently supported (there is a pseudonews feature),
but is being added. I use UUMAIL here at thelake and just wrote
news batcher and unbatcher programs that have yet to be tested.
STadel/UUCALL -- This BBS software has its own form of networking, but
with external UUCALL, RNEWS and INEWS programs, it can poll a
UUCP site for news and mail. Note: I've had some troubles with
UUCALL and haven't been able to contact the author, so
tacook@moundst and I have been running STadel systems with UUMAIL
as the UUCP transport mechanism. By setting up a modified UUMAIL as an
automatic login door, the STadel can support incoming UUCP calls.
(STadel has a "paranoid mode" login prompt that looks like Unix.)
STadel is shareware, but the author (David Parsons) has dropped off
the planet. Incidentally, STadel's mail is compatible with UUCP
routing, so the networks have the appearance of being contiguous.
MAILTRUK -- public domain, by John Logajan (logajan@logajan.mn.org). This
is a less sophisticated mail handler but it features 3-packet
windowing G protocol. Amazingly, it's written in GFA BASIC.
Beckemeyer UUCP -- a commercial package from Beckemeyer Development
Tools that is designed to work with Micro RTX/MT C-Shell,
a multitasking package. Based on GNUUCP with a bunch of
extensions and enhancements. Contact david@bdt.
UUCICO -- public domain by Clemens Schrimpe. I ran across an incomplete
version on a New York BBS. The docs promised rmail, etc., RSN,
but I haven't seen anything else.
UUPC -- The famous PC implementation of UUCP supposedly is available for
the ST, but I have yet to see a complete, functioning version of
it. Partial versions of the sources show up almost everywhere and
there's always just one more header file needed .... if anybody
has a working UUPC site on the Atari ST, please contact me.
UUSLAVE -- A limited UUCP implementation. I don't know of a site that
currently uses it.
Corrections/updates/additions to this list are welcome.
Also, if you're an STadel sysop and your BBS is connected to Usenet,
please send me a note.
Steve Yelvington, up at the lake in Minnesota
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... {playgrnd,moundst,class68}!thelake!steve (Citadel) orc@pell.uucp (david parsons) (08/27/89)
On 26 Aug 89 15:51:27 GMT, steve@thelake (Steve Yelvington) wrote: > >STadel/UUCALL -- This BBS software has its own form of networking, but > with external UUCALL, RNEWS and INEWS programs, it can poll a > UUCP site for news and mail. Note: I've had some troubles with > UUCALL and haven't been able to contact the author Problems? I'm contactable, but through a fairly roundabout fashion (my net connection is news only) - a friend of mine at Bell Labs will forward mail to me if you send it to him (att!tainter.) I'd be keen on seeing bug reports for uucall, so I can clean it up. In case anyone's interested, I've been lurking while working on the multitasking version of stadel (which is working now, albeit in a sadly incomplete form.) Given a few months and a multitasker (currently an older version of mx2, but possibly minix) and that's what stadel will become. -david parsons #! rnews 2897 Path: pell Newsgr