venta@i2ack.sublink.org (Paolo Ventafridda) (10/06/90)
Posting-number: Volume 15, Issue 10 Submitted-by: venta@i2ack.sublink.org (Paolo Ventafridda) Archive-name: rnalib2/part00 Hello Brandon! Inside comp.sources.misc of Aug 1989 there was RNA 1.0, a tiny but useful server based on e-mail. Since then, i've been working with a friend on the 2.0 release, which is finally ready. RNA 2.0 is an advanced mail-server which allows remote uucp users to ask for text or binary files using ordinary email. Rnalib can deal with compress/uuencode/btoa/uusend/uucp: a user can ask for a file to be compressed and shipped through uucp instead of e-mail, which is the default. RNA handles 'libraries', i.e. directories (well, two libraries can share the same directory, but that's part of the docs); it also tries to handle headers following rfc822, and has a bunch of neat features which someone might find useful. This is an example of request: @@ please send RNA from netware using compress-btoa through e-mail RNA is written in Bourne Shell; it's over 1100 lines of pretty hard code (30K without comments and blank lines). It doesn't use 'awk'; should run on almost any machine but 286s (the shell would die). I'll support it as much as i can; new versions are already coming out, but will apply as patches to this working release. I hope you accept it for sources.unix or sources.misc. Many greetings and thanks for your always appreciated work, Paolo Ventafridda <venta@i2ack.sublink.org>