dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (01/11/90)
The Distribution is ready and will be on ucbvax.berkeley.edu
in pub/amiga/uucp1.00D.zoo tonight. Once a few more people test
it via the ucbvax and I talk with WPL more it will be posted
to the USENET.
The Distribution contains William P. Loftus's 0.60 News
software and was originally based on WPL's 0.40 release.
BUT, HOLD THE PHONE! 0.40?
I've made billions and billions of bug fixes and enhancements,
include many sorely needed additions and, I believe, the
distribution as it stands now surpasses WPL's 0.60 distribution.
(NOTE that I am including WPLs 0.60 News software in this release
which was the only thing I hadn't worked on). This isn't, of
course, putting down Will, this distribution would not have been
possible without the 0.40 and subsequent releases. We will
hopefully be merging the two distributions at some point soon.
Apart from the little bug fixes I've done the following:
(1) Getty based UUCico. You run Getty in your startup
sequence and it sits on the serial port waiting for
connections and deals with login and password. A
user/password file specifies an executable to run
(so you can run things other than uucico for different
login names).
This allows you to use your Amiga almost completely
normally while still retaining the ability to accept
UUCP calls at any time.
(2) Sendmail... A real Sendmail (or as real as you can get
with a microcomputer) that deals with queuing mail and
also replaces rmail (receiving mail).
Sendmail has aliases capabilities on par with
/usr/lib/aliases and a simple Domain routing capability
(redirect mail for domain blah to fubar, etc... including
default route).
Sendmail also deals with 'From ' and '>From ' lines
properly and builds proper headers and 'Received:'
lines as mail gets routed.
(Sendmail does not bounce mail yet but the hooks are
there).
(3) DMail.. a mail shell I wrote in 1985 for UNIX systems
has been ported.
(4) Documentation. More explicit setup documentation though
still, as usual, a far cry from what it could be.
-Mattdcr3567@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.C. Richardson) (01/14/90)
Matt:
The new version of Backup/Restore (2.05) worked FLAWLESSLY. (I
lost about 40k bytes of things I didn't need..whew!). Please post this
to the rest of the world, as I don't think I'm *THAT* good in finding
bugs that other people can't. ;-)
Great job from a great author for a great machine!!
(I really doubt that I could have gotten that kind of help, that fast,
if I were using any other machine!)
::This has been an Un-paid political broadcast to make M. Dillon
Demi-God::
(Yes, our mail system is down.. please bear with me..)
-Daniel Richardson
Mechanical Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
Proud User of MD Software