gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) (08/28/90)
As far as I can tell, MIPS uucp is HDB, but uucico does not understand -g (grades), while uucp, uux and uuxqt do. Does anybody know for certain? I am trying to decide whether to use MIPS or 4.3-tahoe uucp on our new machine.
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (08/29/90)
>As far as I can tell, MIPS uucp is HDB, but uucico does not understand -g >(grades), while uucp, uux and uuxqt do. If it's based on the S5R3 HDB, it's not at all surprising that "uucico" doesn't understand the "MaxGrade" notion (i.e., the ability to specify in the Systems file that some grades of job are to be transferred only at certain times); S5R3's HDB doesn't understand it, either. Peter Honeyman has his own version of HDB that does, and he might provide it to people with the right source license; that's how come SunOS 4.1's HDB understands MaxGrade - we got Peter's stuff and folded it in. (It may have trouble *negotiating* the MaxGrade value with 4.3-tahoe UUCPs, due to a bug in 4.3-tahoe's UUCP; see my recent posting in "comp.bugs.4bsd" for the fix.)