hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (04/18/88)
mike2@lcuxa says: > Last year (and recently), sources and executables were distributed > for UUPC. I have the executables for the IBM-PC, and the somewhat > meager documentation. Recently, I thought I'd try to use this > beast to do anonymous uucp transfers from the several sites that > maintain publicly accessible Usenet archives .... other people have mentioned the need for control files. however, version 1 of UUPC implements only half of the uucp protocol, those parts necessary for mail: master-send and slave-receive. to "download" from a Usenet archive, you need master-receive. to make matters worse, UUPC version 1 won't transfer non-text files either. i have modified UUPC to fix the 2 protocol problems above, and i have a simple uucp program to create the control files. i will talk to the folks at van-bc about merging my code into UUPC version 2. wayne hamilton U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo,pur-ee,convex}!uiucuxc!hamilton ARPA: hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu USMail: Box 476, Urbana, IL 61801 CSNET: hamilton%uxc@uiuc.csnet Phone: (217)333-8703 CIS: [73047,544] PLink: w hamilton