[comp.mail.uucp] UUPSI/cc:Mail chat script Problems.

jailbait@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Jailbait) (06/21/91)

I have a problem. I'd love some help. Please.

I have a Novell network - SFT 2.15 and 386 3.10 - running cc:Mail (NOT MY
FAULT) as our mail system, and running cc:Mail's uucp gateway product (now
discontinued as a poorly conceived piece of work) as our outside mail link.
We've been using UUNET as our mail service and now we are switching to
UUPSI.

Now. The version of uucico/uucp/uupc that comes with the cc:Mail gateway
has a limitation. It can only process a one line systems file - which
contains the phone number, the chat script and all other pertinant data
for the call. For UUNET this hasn't been a problem. Their chat script is
about 170 characters total. BUT. With UUPSI, I'm stuck with about a 400
character script - including the character pair *P - which is supposed to
introduce a one second pause.

The problem is that the the version of uucp that comes with the gateway
software only accepts a one line (256 character) chat script. I have not
been able to discover a way to get line continuations - normally a backslash
on one line and white space at the start of the next - to work. Nor do I
know if this implementation even knows what a *P is...

So. I have a problem. I need to get a conversion to UUPSI in place SOON. I
have cc:Mail and I can't dump it. cc:Mail (A division of Lotus) has tech
support people who seem completely unwilling to return my calls.
I need details on what other UUCICO/UUPC equivalents are out there that
accept systems file entries greater than one line. Or I need to know just HOW
to get the UUPC I have to work - information about who wrote it, and where I
can get documentation for it - ASAP - would be MOST appreciated. Or something.

Help? Please?
JB
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