byoder@smcnet.UUCP (Brian Yoder) (12/01/89)
Does anyone out there have any experience installing uucp on a NeXT machine? I have done everything I can think of that is required, but still no uucp. NeXT considers uucp an unsupported product and gives very limited documentation and no tech support to assist me. Am I missing something important? Brian Yoder (Mail me a response if you wish at csun!smcnet!byoder)
sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan) (12/06/89)
From article <378@smcnet.UUCP>, by byoder@smcnet.UUCP (Brian Yoder): > > NeXT considers uucp an unsupported > product and gives very limited documentation and no tech support > to assist me. Holy shit! uucp an unsupported product?! Ack! Does anybody know why uucp is an unsupported product on a NeXT, 'cause I don't see us getting them if they don't have uucp. -- Michael Sullivan uunet!jarthur.uucp!aqdata!sullivan aQdata, Inc. San Dimas, CA
byoder@smcnet.UUCP (Brian Yoder) (12/06/89)
Hold on a minute there...When I said "unsupported" I didn't mean that it wasn't in there. I meant that NeXT doesn't offer "support" for uucp. In other words, the info in the manuals is limited, and the tech support folks don't answer questions. Everything seems to be properly loaded onto the system, I am just having a hard time getting it configured properly. Brian Yoder (ucla-cs!smcnet!byoder)
izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) (12/06/89)
In article <384@smcnet.UUCP> byoder@smcnet.UUCP (Brian Yoder) writes: >that it wasn't in there. I meant that NeXT doesn't offer "support" >for uucp. In other words, the info in the manuals is limited, and >the tech support folks don't answer questions. Everything seems I understand that it is just a matter of priority. There are only so many programmers to go around anywhere, and they would rather put them to work on Apps to go into /NextApps, rather than standard Unix fares. They must figure that, with enough Unix wizards roaming around the universe, problems with uucp will be worked out without NeXT getting involved directly. I think this applies to most of the standard but obscure BSD commands. Izumi Ohzawa izumi@violet.berkeley.edu
byoder@smcnet.UUCP (Brian Yoder) (12/07/89)
I didn't mean for that statement to be taken as a complaint, it was merely a statement of fact. I realize that NeXT only has a finite number of programmers and that they couldn't "NeXTify" everything in the box in the first release. In the future I would expect them to include some kind of uucp admin. package, but for now all I want to do is get my machine working. Brian
sstanfie@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (skot) (12/08/89)
In article <388@smcnet.UUCP> byoder@smcnet.UUCP (Brian Yoder) writes: >and that they couldn't "NeXTify" everything in the box in the first release. >In the future I would expect them to include some kind of uucp admin. >package, but for now all I want to do is get my machine working. I have seen a "NeXTified" UUCP program on a Businessland demo disk called "PostMaster" writen by Glenn C. Reid. I'm not sure when it will be publically released but you can mail him at: {sun,decwrl,apple}!adobe!heaven!glenn His mailing address is part of the help screen, so I assume that he wouldn't mind mail. Hopefully. Just don't attach my name to it :-) BTW, it does look like a nice program, esp. for people who don't know anything about setting up UUCP (like me). -- <<< sstanfie@polyslo.calpoly.edu -/- Campus Consultant for NeXT ~