GREIF@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU (06/08/87)
Can anyone recommend a PC Unix with a UUCP that is known to work? (One that has been installed and is in use as a server for an organization with many email users.) Thanks, Irene Greif Lotus Development Corporation 55 Cambridge Parkway Camridge, MA 02142 greif@xx.lcs.mit.edu phone: 617-225-1926 -------
davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (06/11/87)
In article <7743@brl-adm.ARPA> GREIF@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU (Irene Greif) writes: >Can anyone recommend a PC Unix with a UUCP that is known to work? (One >that has been installed and is in use as a server for an organization with >many email users.) There are three systems I've used. PC/IX - an old klunky Sys III implementation which has proved itself in three years of service on numerous machines here. As a mail server it is dead reliable. Limitations: 2 serial ports. XENIX - supports multiple users, can use up to 16 lines. It will not lose data with two 9600 baud connections coming in, I don't know about more. The manual for 2.1.3 admits that the implementation is V7 rather than SysV. Limitations: when calling out the BREAK in L.sys sends three nulls rather than a real break. This won't reliably autobaud on some systems. It may be fixed in 2.2. I'm told that Excelan ethernet stuff doesn't run on 2.2, by a user who's giving me his Enet board. There may be an upgrade, or you may not care. V/AT - testing on two systems indicates that there may be problems losing data input at high speeds. This can be shown by tying two ports at 9600 and using cu, or running uucp at 9600 to other machines. We are told that this is not the case with "real IBM serial ports" (we're using AST boards). Other symptoms are "tss: double panic" messages followed by having to power down. Outside of cost and slots, you can only run IBM serial ports for two lines. There may not be a problem at lower speeds, etc. If I were doing it and could live with two ports, I'd run PC/IX without a doubt, just because it's so reliable. Other versions may be available from Interactive Systems. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {chinet | philabs | sesimo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
hanley@cmcl2.UUCP (06/14/87)
Rumor has it that there exists a UUCP protocol emulator that runs under MS-DOS that goes by the name of UUSLAVE or something like that. Anyone out there running UUCP under DOS? --John Hanley System Programmer, Manhattan College Researcher, NYU Ultracomputer Labs
brad@bradley.UUCP (06/15/87)
Also Check out VENIX ( I have Version 2.0, looks like V7) or you
can try IN/ix (From Interactive) which is System V for 8088/8086
machines. And has everything execpt for vitual deivce stuff and
shell layers (who needs them anyway on a PC).
Both work okay. I haven't tried 2 machines talking at once.
Bradley Smith UUCP: {cepu,ihnp4,noao,uiucdcs}!bradley!brad
Text Processing ARPA: cepu!bradley!brad@UCLA-LOCUS
Bradley University PH: (309) 677-2337
Peoria, IL 61625wietse@eurifb.UUCP (06/19/87)
In article <16596@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>, hanley@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (John Hanley) writes: > Rumor has it that there exists a UUCP protocol emulator that runs under MS-DOS > that goes by the name of UUSLAVE or something like that. Anyone out there > running UUCP under DOS? Various versions of the uuslave program were posted near february/march. Basically it is a file transfer program that runs on a pc and executes requests from a remote (presumably unix) system. However, the pc cannot generate work for the remote system. If that is not what you want it may be of interest to know that we are currently working on a utility that allows Ms-Dos users to create, send and receive email (using any reasonable wordprocessor), and effectively turns a pc into a "non-routing uucp node". I plan to post this somewhere in the second half of this year, but am willing to mail a pre-release on request. uucp: mcvax!eutrc3!wswietse Wietse Venema, Mathematics and Computer Science bitnet: wswietse@heithe5 Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
lauren@rand-unix.arpa (06/22/87)
In response to the recent "UUCP for PCs" query, a number of network readers have asked us to post rather lengthy technical descriptions of our UULINK product to the net. I don't feel that a lengthy posting would be appropriate, but since there seems to be considerable interest in the product from the community, here is a paragraph regarding its basic capabilities. If you wish more information please contact us directly-- please be sure to include a U.S. Mail address. Thanks much. --- UULINK provides a comprehensive UUCP/mail/file transfer, etc. package for MS-DOS. UULINK communications are compatible with standard UUCPs, including support for "multiple-packet full-duplex/windowing" operations. The package runs on MS-DOS systems on IBM-PC's or compatibles. It provides both binary and ascii file transfer (spooled and/or direct, with the work queued either locally or remotely), remote access, logging, security controls, etc. It can operate fully unattended for incoming and/or outgoing calls (the latter through a built-in "cron" mechanism and user-configurable dialing sequences). It handles standard UUCP mail messages, both single-hop and multiple-hop (i.e. it will act as an intermediate UUCP mail forwarding node if desired). It generates and handles RFC 822 compatible headers (To:, From:, etc.), and includes support for processing and routing domain style addresses (e.g. FOO@BAR.SITE.COM) as well as conventional UUCP addresses. Multiple users may have separate mailboxes and related separate configuration specifications (editor choices, display parameters, etc.) on the same UULINK node. Its mail reading program allows for header displays, message replies, forwarding of messages to others, sorting mail to/from specific mail folders, etc. The ability to send and receive Usenet "netnews" articles is included. UULINK provides both "local" and "global" mail aliases, distribution (mailing) lists, and a wide variety of other features. --- --Lauren-- Vortex Technology (213) 390-3920
mikes@apple.UUCP (Mike Shannon) (06/30/87)
I'm having trouble with what appears to be two different versions
of uucp, and I was wondering if anyone could clue me into the
history/flavors of uucp.
I am using one system, which is an SV-flavor unix, which has
a 'uucico', which, when it begins running as a SLAVE, first emits
Shere=systemname
In my alter ego, I am using an Ultrix-based bsd4.x, which has
a uucico, which, when it begins running as a SLAVE, first emits
Shere
(i.e. no '=systemname')
Now, I am unable to get these two systems to uucp together, and
I'm curious about this problem. Are there multiple (incompatible) flavors
of uucp or uucico around? (When I look in the LOGFILE, it says 'timed out',
which makes me suspect that the two uucico's observe incompatible protocols.)
Apologies if this topic is old/trivial, but as far as I knew, there
are many revisions of uucp around, but I had thought they all talked to
each other.
thanks,
Mike Shannon (amdahl!apple!mikes)
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Michael Shannon {apple!mikes}