jr@oglvee.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) (04/05/89)
It's my understanding that uucp doesn't guarantee delivery order. I've certainly seen Usenet articles arrive in the wrong order -- e.g. a reply has an earlier article number than the original message. From perusing log files it appears that at least on some systems it can happen that files are sent in reverse order -- or am I seeing things? Is there a way I can send files via uucp where I can guarantee they will be delivered in the order queued? I *think* I'm guaranteed of having HDB at both ends of the link, & I'm only concerned about a single hop. It should be a sort of V.3.1 at one end (Altos "UNIX V.3", catch du jour, globs of oil sticking in the nets not to be ruled out!) with AT&T 386 V.3.2 at the other end. I am writing a system which will run on top of uucp to send exported database records. My system has its own concept of jobs, and the exported records are packaged into bundles and dealt with in the proper order within a job. My trouble will come if the modem goes down long enough that more than one job queues in the uucp spool directory. I suppose I could put a wrapper around uucico, but I wonder if there's a simpler way. -- Jim Rosenberg pitt Oglevee Computer Systems >--!amanue!oglvee!jr 151 Oglevee Lane cgh Connellsville, PA 15425 #include <disclaimer.h>