Date: Sun, 29 Jan 95 16:22:55 EST From: Snuffles@kew.com Subject: UUPC-Info Digest 1995 #1 To: uupc-info-digest@kew.com Message-ID: Reply-To: UUPC-Info@kew.com UUPC-Info Digest Sun, 29 Jan 95 Volume 1995: Issue 1 Today's Topics: 2 X Postings (followup) Does anybody have a .MDM file for the USRobotics Sportster 28.8? Error in uupc-info-digest welcome message? Message daemon for OS/2 (2 msgs) Newsgroup Selections (2 msgs) Posting X 2 UUPC and remote login uupc cps (4 msgs) V-MailServer Session Status (2 msgs) To subscribe to UUPC-Info-Digest, send the command in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com: subscribe uupc-info-Digest To signoff from UUPC-Info-Digest, use "signoff" instead of "subscribe". You can also send an "index" to the listserv to get an index of back issues and other files available for retrieval. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 95 18:00:00 -0500 From: sysop@mome-raths.iac.net Subject: 2 X Postings (followup) To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Well, wouldn't you know that I messed up a batch file, so I no longer have the message. Anyhow, I put in UUPC.RC the lines that Drew suggested, plus a couple of others: options=history options=bounce options=honordebug options=syslog Anyhow, the posting X 2 that I was experiencing before does not, as far as I know, happen anymore. Coincedence, or one of the above? John -- Mome Raths BBS General Pix, Adult Pix, Messages, (513)523-7887 DOS, Windows and OS/2 programs, Oxford, Ohio 12 Step echos and much more ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 09:44:51 -0800 (PST) From: trio@crl.com Subject: Does anybody have a .MDM file for the USRobotics Sportster 28.8? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I just got the new USRobotics Sportster 28.8 with v.34 and i can't get it to call out. If anyone has a .MDM file i'd appreciate a copy. In particular, i think i really just need the initialization string. Thank you for your help. trio@crl.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 08:05:39 -0500 From: Help@kew.com Subject: Error in uupc-info-digest welcome message? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Wed, 25 Jan 1995 11:02:35 PST, "Blake C. Ramsdell" wrote: > You might want to take a look at the "welcome" message that is sent > in response to joining uupc-info-digest: > > > Please send all submissions to the list to uupc-info-digest@kew.com. DO > > NOT submit entries to uupc-info-digest directly. > > Do you mean that we should send submissions to uupc-info? Yes. UUPC-Info-Digest is merely a digest of UUPC-Info, so nothing will ever appear there that doesn't appear in UUPC-Info. If you DO send to UUPC-Info-Digest@kew.com, interesting things happen... being sent only to UUPC-Info-Digest is not one of them, by design. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "I am working ... where most people have never even heard of fax, and internet is something to take fishing." - Tony Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 95 9:35:08 -0800 From: dhosek@quixote.com Subject: Message daemon for OS/2 To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I'm looking for a very simple message daemon for OS/2. All it needs to do, is, when a message comes in for user x, pipe that message to a given command & delete it. For example it might pipe the message to cat>prn which would print out each message as it comes in (in practice, my immediate application will be to pipe the message to a short cmd file which will cause it to be faxed). Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. -dh -- Don Hosek "What frightens me is when people substitute fear for reason." Quixote Digital Typography -The Day the Earth Stood Still Publishers of _Serif: The Magazine of Type and Typography_ 909-621-1291 Current reading: _Hosea_ (Andersen, FAX: 909-625-1342 Freedman, eds.), _Antologia de dhosek@quixote.com Cuentos Mexicanos II_ (Millau, ed.) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 12:11:24 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Message daemon for OS/2 To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sun, 29 Jan 95 9:35:08 -0800, dhosek@quixote.com wrote: > I'm looking for a very simple message daemon for OS/2. All it needs to > do, is, when a message comes in for user x, pipe that message to a > given command & delete it. For example it might pipe the message to > cat>prn which would print out each message as it comes in (in > practice, my immediate application will be to pipe the message to a > short cmd file which will cause it to be faxed). > > Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. RMAIL includes this support internally. Look up FORWARD files in the manual. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 I'm watching for falling grades. Care to join me? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jan 95 22:42:56 -0500 From: sysop@mome-raths.iac.net Subject: Newsgroup Selections To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Is there a setting, either in UUPC or in TIN where only certain users can access certain groups? I get a lot of binary groups that I run a smart uudecoder on directly, and I don't want to confuse a lot of non-Internet-literates with binaries groups. More importantly, I don't want to have to restrict all or nothing in regards to giving users internet access. Am I being realistic about lettimg minors read comp.os.* but not alt.sex.*? John -- Mome Raths BBS General Pix, Adult Pix, Messages, (513)523-7887 DOS, Windows and OS/2 programs, Oxford, Ohio 12 Step echos and much more ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 08:03:30 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Newsgroup Selections To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sun, 22 Jan 95 22:42:56 -0500, sysop@mome-raths.iac.net wrote: > Is there a setting, either in UUPC or in TIN where only certain users > can access certain groups? I get a lot of binary groups that I run > a smart uudecoder on directly, and I don't want to confuse a lot of > non-Internet-literates with binaries groups. More importantly, I > don't want to have to restrict all or nothing in regards to giving > users internet access. Am I being realistic about lettimg minors > read comp.os.* but not alt.sex.*? Generically speaking, no. news software is written for adults by adults, the thought that restrictions need to be applied on a per group basis to a group of users on the same host is pretty foreign. Particularlly in UUPC/extended, there is no expectation of local security on the host, I doubt there is in TIN. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "Get your money for nothing . . . Chicks for free . . ." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 11:48:26 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Posting X 2 To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I rather doubt the pnews program is causing the problem, but rather you are sending the file off to your news feed and its sending it back or some such. Be careful to enable options=history, and also watch the headers to see if they are exactly the same when posts show up twice. Also, see if the problem happens with 1.12m when available, since the news distribution channel is totally rewritten in it. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "Your dreams are china in your hand . . ." - T'pau ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 11:44:55 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: UUPC and remote login To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sat, 21 Jan 95 21:26:29 -0800, tannen@crusader.stat.com wrote: > Is is possible to allow someone to login to my OS/2 box, where > they use a terminal emulation program and I have UUPC set up to > answer the call? (ie a BBS of sorts) UUPC/extended 1.12e and above will allow invoking a number of external programs, including OS2YOU and OS/2 Kermit. This should be properly documented in 1.12m docs when available. > Could they then read email and news if I gave them an account? Maybe. Depends on the program you use for them, since some programs write to standard out but others will do direct VIO (console) I/O. > Could they use Kermit (an OS/2 variety) on my machine and theirs > to upload/download files? Yes, although OS/2 Kermit will not timeout if it goes inactive or loses carrier. Jeff Altman, the God of OS/2 Kermit, is aware of this and has it in his queue. However, like myself he has a _long_ queue. :-) The question is, however, why not set the remote user up with his own site -- UUPC/extended is, after all, designed as a peer-to-peer networking tool and exists for DOS as well. This drastically reduces your connect time, among other things. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "Your dreams are china in your hand . . ." - T'pau ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 00:15:06 -0500 (EST) From: tomr@pinn.net Subject: uupc cps To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I am using uupc with a supra v32 modem on a dos 386 machine. Transfer rates with a Xenix486 host, connected at 9600 baud, average only 340 cps. I am using the supra.mdm file supplied with uupc 1.12k. What can I do to improve the throughput? ___ |OMR@pinn.net Tom Regan JFH International Virginia Beach, Va. (804) 499-9684 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 07:38:19 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: uupc cps To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Fri, 27 Jan 1995 00:15:06 -0500 (EST), tomr@pinn.net wrote: > I am using uupc with a supra v32 modem on a dos 386 machine. Transfer > rates with a Xenix486 host, connected at 9600 baud, average only > 340 cps. I am using the supra.mdm file supplied with uupc 1.12k. > What can I do to improve the throughput? Go to a UNIX UUCP (Taylor 1.05) which supports larger packets is big one. On any system, if you must use small packets, disable modem data compression and perhaps error correction (remember that 'g' has its own error correction) as the buffering required by these modem protocols slows down transmission of acknowledgement packets enough to seriously affect throughput. From tests with a Sun 4.1.3 box, I suspect you could see your throughput jump up to ~ 600 CPS + with DC and EC disabled. (I think I got ~ 800 CPS, but I using matched v32bis modems.) -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 07:18:33 -0500 From: Software@kew.com Subject: uupc cps To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Fri, 27 Jan 95 9:40:59 -0800, "Tommy Henderson" wrote: > > Go to a UNIX UUCP (Taylor 1.05) which supports larger packets is big > > one. > > Which of the protocols supported by UUPC/Extended do you recommend? Taylor 1.04 supports large packet 'g' and 'G'. Taylor 1.05 supports 'v', which is an easier configure version of the former two. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 14:24:51 -0500 From: uupc@mistik.express.net Subject: uupc cps To: UUPC/Extended mailing list > > On Fri, 27 Jan 1995 00:15:06 -0500 (EST), tomr@pinn.net wrote: > > I am using uupc with a supra v32 modem on a dos 386 machine. Transfer > > rates with a Xenix486 host, connected at 9600 baud, average only > > 340 cps. I am using the supra.mdm file supplied with uupc 1.12k. > > What can I do to improve the throughput? > > Go to a UNIX UUCP (Taylor 1.05) which supports larger packets is big > one. > > On any system, if you must use small packets, disable modem data > compression and perhaps error correction (remember that 'g' has its own > error correction) as the buffering required by these modem protocols > slows down transmission of acknowledgement packets enough to seriously > affect throughput. > > From tests with a Sun 4.1.3 box, I suspect you could see your throughput > jump up to ~ 600 CPS + with DC and EC disabled. (I think I got ~ 800 > CPS, but I using matched v32bis modems.) Yes, I had set it to no compression and no protocol (no error correction). Although not matching modems, I got up to 1250 cps for 100K news batches overall. Don't remember the software and OS involved though. The other side was speedway.net. > -- > Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com > Telephone: 617-641-3452 > > As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 19:59:26 -0500 From: Help@kew.com Subject: V-MailServer Session Status To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sun, 22 Jan 1995 23:22:46 -0500 (EST), "Richard J. Wyble" wrote: > Full moon bite Listserv@kew this evening? I've received a number of these > this evening even though I've never made a request of the server. Yes. I'm setting up a digest version of the list, and an archive of the same on kendra, and the V-mail server (aka Listserv) decided to acknowledge to the master list that I had submitted a digest for processing. I whacked some aliases (which makes the summary of the digest look wrong, but it's the least of my problems), and I think the abuse has stopped. To switch from the main list to the digest, which will be sent out once a week or every 40K of mail, which ever is sooner, send the following to listserv@kew.com: signoff uupc-info subscribe uupc-info-digest -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 Harris's Lament: All the good ones are taken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 08:01:54 -0500 From: Software@kew.com Subject: V-MailServer Session Status To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 24 Jan 95 17:27:29 -0500, "March Hare" wrote: > > To switch from the main list to the digest, which will be sent out once > > a week or every 40K of mail, which ever is sooner, send the following to > > listserv@kew.com: > > > > signoff uupc-info > > subscribe uupc-info-digest > > Are both going to be available, then, or does this mean you are going > to go to digest-only in the future? They will both be available. Some people (quite reasonly) think the volume of UUPC-Info is a little high, and this will give them an intermediate step between UUPC-Info proper and UUPC-Announce. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "I am working ... where most people have never even heard of fax, and internet is something to take fishing." - Tony Stewart ------------------------------ End of UUPC-Info Digest ******************************