ahd@clutx.clarkson.edu (Drew Derbyshire) (12/15/89)
From article <1989Dec12.195158.10921@i-core.UUCP>, by dixie@i-core.UUCP (Egan F. Ford): > This looks like a good as place as any to post this request: I'd like a > uucp package for the PC or Mac simular to the one the amiga has, however I > do not even know if one exists. First off, LOOK AT MY REPLY ADDRESS. Poor Russ Nelson, who manages our news, keeps having to forward mail to me because mail is not sent to where my header ASKS for it to be send. Your request assumes the average reader knows what sort of mail is available for the Amiga; I personally have no idea. Also, no one UUCP is available for Any machine. Sorry. For MS-DOS, a number of packages are out there. They include: UFGATE (UUCP to Fido net) FSUUCP (Fubar Systems UUCP) UULINK (Commerical package, $350) UUPC 1.5 (The widely known Interim version) UUPC/extended 1.07g (My version) plus other versions of UUPC, and at least one other commerical package (that package was reviewed with UULINK in Unix World early this year, with UULINK, I can't find the issue.) UUPC is free, FSUUCP is shareware, I have no idea about UFGATE. FSUUCP also has news support and more bugs than I was willing to put up with. UUPC 1.5 is available via anonymous FTP from simtel20.army.mil, directory PD1:<MSDOS.UUCP>. (Or did they move it to PD2: ?) UUPC/extended 1.07f both binaries and SOURCE are on clutx.clarkson.edu, accessible via anonymous FTP, in directory pub/uupc. I am currently updating the documents related to it (I found no less than 40 errors in 10 pages of docs) and making minor bug fixes. This will go online before 30 December 1989. An older version of UUPC/extended is also on CompuServe, I advise you do NOT use it because of garbled message headers. I have no access to CompuServe, I cannot replace the bad copy. The folks up in Vancouver (authors of the "official" UUPC 1.5) have my sources and are doing with them whatever people do when people mail you mangled code that you once knew. :-) FSUUCP is available from polyslo.calpoly.edu, also via anonymous FTP. I will have my system running as a Kermit server overnight once New England Telephone catches up from the NYNEX strike and installs my second line. Until then, the file is only available via FTP as described above. I will NOT mail out diskettes because I am updating the program as time allows and I refuse to perform multiple refreshes via mail. If someone else has a modifiedversion of UUPC and would like share it with me, I am interested. However, please read my list of fixes (in the UUPCUSR.ZIP file on clutx, or ask me to mail you a copy) before anything else; that list is fairly complete and can save a long discussion on what I have and have not done. Drew Derbyshire Internet: ahd@clutx.clarkson.edu Snail mail: 108 Decatur St, Apt 9 Voice: 617-641-3739 Arlington, MA 02174
pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar) (12/18/89)
In article <1989Dec15.012407.20960@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> ahd@clutx.clarkson.edu (Drew Derbyshire) writes: >From article <1989Dec12.195158.10921@i-core.UUCP>, by dixie@i-core.UUCP (Egan F. Ford): >> This looks like a good as place as any to post this request: I'd like a >> uucp package for the PC or Mac simular to the one the amiga has, however I >> do not even know if one exists. > >UUPC is free, FSUUCP is shareware, I have no idea about UFGATE. FSUUCP >also has news support and more bugs than I was willing to put up with. So here is the poop on UFGATE... Tim --- UFGATE is a package that will move files, mail, and news- groups back and forth between UUCP/USENET and MS-DOS machines. The package will gate between UUCP/USENET and FidoNet or you can just run the package stand-alone, effectively being a leaf site in UUCP/USENET. UFGATE runs on IBM-PC/XT/AT or PS/2 machines or compatibles. UFGATE will also work with MS-DOS or PC-DOS machines that are not 100 percent IBM-PC hardware compatible with an appropriate FOSSIL (a communications device driver). This is needed for the UUCICO clone, GNUUCP (aka. UUSLAVE). The GNUUCP program has been brought up to a full implementa- tion of UUCICO with routines so it can run with the MS-DOS file structure. You can initiate or receive UUCP connections and there is full support for l.sys files. You can even use it with PC Pursuit. The package will handle the importing, exporting of UUCP messages, and also the automatic deletion of old USENET newsgroup messages. UFGATE will also handle mail/newsgroups that have been either 12 or 16 bit compressed. UFGATE can handle either UUCP bang-style, ARPA/INTERNET domain style, or a hybrid of both. It can also handle aliases for individuals or machine names. Message forwarding is also built in. UFGATE can handle multiple hosts. Message formatting, like the automatic appending of individual signature files, is supported. Detailed debugging is available, so setup is easier. UFGATE is free to non-commercial, non-supported users. If you are interested in support, which includes updates for a year, the Late Night Software telephone support service, and a hard copy of the manual, a $35 fee is asked. If you are a commercial site, you will automatically get the support described above, and the manual for $195. Support is available to all users via the UFGATE echo on FidoNet. You can download the UFGATE package from the Late Night Software BBS at: +1 415 695 0759. Currently we have a USRobotics dual standard (HST/v.32) 9600b/s modem. The time to transfer the file (UFGATE.ARC) at 9600b/s is 10 minutes, or at 2400b/s, it would be about 40 minutes. We also accept floppies. You can send either 360Kbyte or 1.2Mbyte, five and a quarter inch floppies. If you send 360Kbyte floppies, send four. The package will fit completely on one 1.2Mbyte floppy. The floppies should be pre-formatted on your machine. Send the floppies in a standard floppy mailer with a return label, and return postage to: Late Night Software Tim Pozar 671 28th Street San Francisco, CA 94131 If you have further questions, you can write us at the above address, or call us at +1 415 695 7727, or write to the Email address below. Internet: lns@f555.n125.z1.fidonet.org UUCP: ...!sun!hoptoad!fidogate!lns -- Tim Pozar Try also... Internet: pozar@toad.com Fido: 1:125/555 PaBell: (415) 788-3904 USNail: KKSF / 77 Maiden Lane / San Francisco CA 94108