chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) (01/21/89)
According to tif@cpe.UUCP: >I'm a bit defensive of anything that sounds like criticisms of micnet >because it works and most people are too set in their ways to try it. Oh, I tried it. When you send a large file, it doesn't rename the temp file to the destination filename; it *copies* it. Even if they're on the same filesystem. As soon as I discovered that, I switched to UUCP. If MICNET is careless in copying files, what else is carelessly written? Best not to find out the hard way. (BTW, Smail handles mail aliases just fine, thank you very much.) -- Chip Salzenberg <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip> A T Engineering Me? Speak for my company? Surely you jest! "It's no good. They're tapping the lines."
skrenta@eecs.nwu.edu (Richard Skrenta) (01/22/89)
I had two Xenix machines around for a while, so I tried Micnet. I looked and looked, but couldn't find any kind of rlogin or such. So, all you get is two-way mail over one serial line, right? Seems like using a uutty would give you that plus being able to log in to the machine personally going either direction. If I've missed some of the capabilities of Micnet, please let me know. Rich Skrenta
jim@tiamat.FSC.COM (Jim O'Connor) (01/24/89)
In article <3700019@eecs.nwu.edu>, skrenta@eecs.nwu.edu (Richard Skrenta) writes: > I had two Xenix machines around for a while, so I tried Micnet. I looked > and looked, but couldn't find any kind of rlogin or such. So, all you > get is two-way mail over one serial line, right? Seems like using a > uutty would give you that plus being able to log in to the machine personally > going either direction. > If I've missed some of the capabilities of Micnet, please let me know. Micnet, INHO, is easier to maintain and use in multi-site configurations. In a two machine setup like yours, uucp is probably better. In multi-site set-ups micnet has the advantage of: 1) hidden topology: rcp siteA:file1 siteB:file2 works exactly the same whether the network looks like siteA ---- siteB or siteA ---- siteC ---- siteB uucp doesn't directly support multi-hop transfers, does it? (at least the uucp supplied with Altos xenix never did) 2) two-way communications over one line - only very recent versions of Xenix are coming out with dial-in/-out support that works. People stuck with old versions of xenix have no easy recourse. Micnet certainly isn't "God's gift to serial networking" but it has its applications. As big a fan as I am, even I admit it needs improvements. (See article posted two days ago.) --jim ------------- James B. O'Connor jim@FSC.COM Filtration Sciences Corporation 615/821-4022 x. 651