trier@shasta.scl.cwru.edu (Stephen Trier) (05/26/90)
I have placed the new version of smail/PC, version 1.0 beta 3,
in shasta.scl.cwru.edu's anonymous FTP directory. This version
fixes a bug which made it impossible to communicate with systems
with short names. The changes affect the files uux.exe and smail.exe
in the binary distribution, and uux.c and defs.h in the source.
Revised versions of the .ZIP files are now available on
shasta.scl.cwru.edu [129.22.32.7], in /info/smailbin.zip and
/info/smailsrc.zip. To keep the load down on shasta, I will mail
the source code to the patch to any who e-mail a request. As
before, other archive sites are welcome to carry smail/PC.
What is smail/PC? It's a port of the Unix smail2.5 smart
mailer to MS-DOS. smail/PC uses a modified version of the UUPC
uuio program as a transport mechanism and Mush-PC as a user
interface. smail/PC fits in between the two to provide multiple
host support with smart routing, aliasing, full-name aliases, and
the ability to function as a domain gateway. If you can find a
Unix system on which to run pathalias, you can even load the full-
world maps into smail/PC to have automatic routing to any UUCP
system in the world. smail/PC 1.0b3 is the second public release of
smail/PC and the third beta-test version. The version number will
go to a full 1.0 once I have not received any bug reports for a
sufficiently long period of time.
I would especially like to thank Mark O'Carroll (moc@lena.UUCP)
for bringing this bug to my attention and for testing the fix before
I packaged it for release.
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