help@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended Help Desk) (09/11/90)
Archive-name: uupc/11-Sep-90
Original-posting-by: help@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended Help Desk)
Original-subject: UUPC 1.08a available
Archive-site: clutx.clarkson.edu [128.153.4.3]
Archive-directory: /pub/uupc
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
UUPC/Extended version 1.08a is now available for the public. This
package is a small but *free* UUCP based mailer for connecting an MS-DOS
based PC to another PC or UNIX system.
The original authors of UUPC in Vancouver have moved onto other projects
and blessed (cursed?) my efforts of updating UUPC; thus, version 1.08a
is a replacement for both the interim release of UUPC and UUPC/Extended
1.07j.
UUPC/extended 1.08a can be retrieved via anonymous FTP from
clutx.clarkson.edu, directory pub/uupc, and from the Clarkson CUHUG BBS,
telephone 315-268-6667, file area 4. The file names are:
UUPC08AU.ZIP (Executables and documents)
UUPC08AS.ZIP (Source files)
It will get also loaded to WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL, directory
PD2:<MSDOS2.UUCP>, but because of the cutbacks at SIMTEL20 I am unsure
when.
Major changes for this release include:
Users can include messages from the mailbox when replying to
mail, and issue other commands when sending mail.
File name collisions when receiving files with mixed case names
from UNIX hosts are now avoided.
Full host names (greater than six characters) are sent to remote
hosts.
UUPC/extended now understands daylight savings time, and
automatically changes the name of the time zone twice a year.
Additional status messages if UUIO fails when connecting to the
remote system.
Modified packet machine to count errors on a per packet basis;
this means that a file transfer will not fail because of errors
which slow but do not halt the transfer, but a file transfer
which is hung on a single bad packet will fail after MAXERR
retries.
The source files have been reorganized, and now compile
under Turbo C++ 1.0 or Microsoft 6.0 C. Turbo C 2.0 is no
longer supported because of MAKEFILE changes.
Appending the signature file is now controlled by a new
option flag, "autosign".
The help files have be externalized.
NOTE: Because of the some of the changes in the require changes in
UUPC/extended setup, the documentation files, especially CHANGES.DOC,
should be reviewed before using the new release.
My thanks to Keith Peterson and Russ Nelson for help in loading
UUPC/extended to various places.
Please direct all questions on UUPC or UUPC/extended to
help@kendra.kew.com.
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Drew Derbyshire
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