lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) (12/17/87)
How does one set things up with a bitnet feed so that news as well as mail is passed along? Are there any fancy tricks needed to get this working - any thing that is lost or gained? Also, I have been told that the doc to install Bitnet under Ultrix is rather vague - at least for someone who is not familar with the process. Are there any auxilary articles published or tips from the pros which could make this process easier? A friend is setting things up soon. Thanks! -- Larry W. Virden 75046,606 (CIS) 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 cbosgd!n8emr!lwv (UUCP) cbosgd!n8emr!lwv@PSUVAX1 (BITNET) We haven't inherited the world from our parents, but borrowed it from our children.
david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) (12/19/87)
In article <377@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes: >How does one set things up with a bitnet feed so that news as well as mail >is passed along? Are there any fancy tricks needed to get this working - any >thing that is lost or gained? Well ... it's fairly simple ... and all explained in the paper I've been meaning to finish up for about a year now. Basically all you have to do is copy batch'd article files from one place to another, right? The protocol we've been using with our news feeds is with PRINT files, in class W, either fileNAME or fileTYPE is NETNEWS and the other one is the site name who is sending the file. If the machines on both ends are capable of it, you should use some sort of encoding scheme to sidestep the problems with encoding characters in and out of EBCDIC. The combination I use here is compress and btoa. uuencode didn't work well... I think it might have just been because the BSD uuencode (the only one available at the time) used a scheme which allowed lines with trailing blanks ... which ended up being truncated somewhere. Anyway, the people at U of Toronto also send news across BITNET and use a different encoding scheme. I have a copy of their program or you can get it from them. >Also, I have been told that the doc to install Bitnet under Ultrix is rather >vague - at least for someone who is not familar with the process. Are there >any auxilary articles published or tips from the pros which could make this >process easier? A friend is setting things up soon. If you mean UREP. Yes, the manuals are vague. But that's what the source code is for, right? :-) (um, yes I have read parts of the UREP sources, and I *do* have a very hairy chest now ... :-) ...). I don't know anything extra you can read. There is an IBM manual you can get which describes the NJE protocols at a fairly interesting level of detail. Unfortunately I don't have a copy handy to give you part numbers ... -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <david@ms.uky.edu> <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- Winter health warning: Remember, don't eat the yellow snow!