ddickey@como.lake.eta.com (Dan A. Dickey) (01/26/88)
After sending about 80 62K files to another system via uucp, I got to wondering about disk space on the destination system. I thought: If the disk fills up, uucp will send SN2 back or some such value, the sending uucp will return mail to me saying access denied, the transfer failed or something along this line. After trying to think of a way around it, I came up with the idea that, when the receiving uucp detects that there isn't enough storage to receive any more, it hangs up the connection. This way...the sending uucp will time out, and then wait to send the files. This will occur until the files get sent or uuclean gets them. It occurred that this may be more desirable than all the files being dumped into the bit bucket and any notification that things went haywire being ignored. I thought that this "idea" may be more helpful to the usenet community... as a user, I can easily requeue any files that didn't make the transfer. But how do you restart news or mail files that get dumped? Is this "idea" something new/old, is it reasonable? Or am I way off base? ----- Dan A. Dickey ddickey@eta.com -- Dan A. Dickey ddickey@eta.com