honey@down.UUCP (code 101) (04/26/84)
USG based versions of uucp (this includes honey danber) maintain an A. file that keeps the index of the last line in the corresponding C. file that was successfully processed. after an aborted connection, the A. file (if it exists) is inspected and work continues with the indicated line. go buy a 5.0 license and look at anlwrk.c. peter honeyman
lmcl@ukc.UUCP (04/27/84)
Would anything go wrong if after a send or receive had completed the entry in the command (C.) file was marked (by overwriting the S by a D for example) to show it had been done? As far as I can tell it should be OK so long as cntrl.c is updated to cope with a wrktype of 'D'. Far too often a transfer of a news article has taken place several times with just the body succeeding to get across and then the X. file failing. Also on transfering a collection of files it often dies after transfering a few but currently will still have to retransfer those it has already done. Unless someone has good reason to believe this is a dumb idea I'm going to try it out. So if you believe doing this might cause uucp to crash or crash unix or grind British Telecom to a halt please let me know. -- ...!ukc!lmcl ...!ukc!root44!west44!lee