bill@sigma.UUCP (01/28/87)
>1943@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery): >>1683@hoptoad.uucp> by pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar): >>I picked off the uuslave code. [...] >The posting mentioned the fact that we're all pretty well stumped by it. >[...] >It *does* seem to be written for CP/M, as opposed to MS-DOS. This might mean >Aztec or BDS C, the two most common for CP/M. It is *not* written for BDS C. I have been studying it for a bit and have resolved pretty much everything EXCEPT the "inita/initb,initc" part of the protocol. It appears that there may be some information exchanged in this part of the protocol, but there is insufficient information on what this might be. (It's also possible that this part of the protocol is bogus). Can any UUCP experts out there enlighten me/us?
rh@cs.paisley.ac.uk (Robert Hamilton) (02/03/87)
In article <1040@sigma.UUCP> bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) writes: >It is *not* written for BDS C. I have been studying it for a bit and have >resolved pretty much everything EXCEPT the "inita/initb,initc" part of >the protocol. It appears that there may be some information exchanged in >this part of the protocol, but there is insufficient information on what >this might be. (It's also possible that this part of the protocol is >bogus). Can any UUCP experts out there enlighten me/us? We've been playing with uuslave. It is a crafty little bit of code. It condenses a lot of the usual uucp code to give a prog. that will run on almost anything and allow uucp file copies and *mail* transfers. So far its run on BBC's and ATARI ST's The only system dependant bits are: (1) opening the serial port, setting it to RAW mode no ECHO and 8 bits (thats where the inita stuff comes in) In most micros you can just open it. (fdtty=open("rs423:",3) or sim.) (2) the read and write code (xgetc() and xputc()) xgetx() is tricky in that it should timeout after 10 seconds if it doesn't get a char. You can use polling if you don't have signal() But in fact it will work most of the time without a timeout. -- JANET: rh@uk.ac.paisley.cs EMAIL: rh@cs.paisley.ac.uk | Post: Systems manager. UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!paisley!rh | Department of Computing, Phone: +44 41 887 1241 Ext. 219 | Paisley College | High St. Paisley. | Scotland. | PA1 2BE