Date: Sat, 15 Apr 95 20:59:56 EDT From: Snuffles@kew.com Subject: UUPC-Info-Request Digest 1995 #11 To: uupc-info-digest@kew.com Message-ID: Reply-To: UUPC-Info-Request@kew.com UUPC-Info-Request Digest Sat, 15 Apr 95 Volume 1995: Issue 11 Today's Topics: 1.12k problem? compiling uupc1.12k Installing 1.12k problem Is there ANY news reader for UUPC? (2 msgs) Modem files Need some help with news feeds... Tip: Pager (2 msgs) UUPC for Windows uupoll -e function UUPOLL and DST (2 msgs) Wrong path line 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: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 08:39:08 -0800 From: timr@iia.com Subject: 1.12k problem? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list About once a week, our UUPC 1.12k (Windows) goes into an infinite print screen loop in uucico. Today, it started at 3:30 AM, and by the time I got in at 8:30 it had queued up 25MB of rather unenlightening data. Being a programmer, I fully understand how impossible it is to debug a problem of this kind. I'm trying to find out if anyone else has experienced this, to try to find out what might be common between us, to narrow the problem domain. -- - Tim Roberts Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc timr@iia.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 13:42:20 -0400 From: Help@kew.com Subject: compiling uupc1.12k To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Thu, 06 Apr 1995 14:40:18 -0400, "John Covici" wrote: > Hi. How can I compile uupc1.12k, I only have Borland C 3.1 and you > are now compiling with Microsoft? Can I use the old make file with 1.12j > or do you have one I can use? 1.12k was compiled with Borland 3.1, the Makefile with the 1.12k sources should work with it. 1.12n was compiled with MS compiled binaries, but the BC Makefile should still work for that as well. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "Above all, be at peace with your Systems' Vendor, No matter what you conceive him to be . . . " - Geoff Collins ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Apr 95 22:01:24 +0000 From: tannen@crusader.stat.com Subject: Installing 1.12k problem To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Well I finally downloaded 1.12k and tried to install it, but i had a problem. When I tried uuio to my feed, I got an error about not finding SO32DLL. Any ideas? Also, I didn't see any new docs. Did I miss something in the index or at the ftp site? Thanks in advance. A servant of Christ, David Tannen (tannen@crusader.stat.com) TeamAda Member Crusader Software (tm) 613 West Caballero Circle Mesa, Arizona 85201 (602) 833 0048 Christian Acronym: B.I.B.L.E.=Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 22:37:01 -0100 From: Help@kew.com Subject: Is there ANY news reader for UUPC? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sun, 02 Apr 1995 15:16:16 +0300, "Harri Pesonen" wrote: > Now I begin to wonder if there is any decent news reader for UUPC at all? For DOS? Since you eliminated SNEWS, no. > There must be, because transferring news is the another main job of UUPC. One which is still evolving. I've been more of the back-end person in all this. > What newsreader are you using? The Truth comes out: NR/2 under OS/2 to an NNTP server on an network where I work, or RN under UNIX in NNTP on that same network. For local use here at kew.com, we just gateway a few groups into mail using the SYS file support with 1.12n. Here I'm also playing with RNR 1.27, a compact little reader mostly designed for waffle which also seems to make a sincere effort to work with UUPC/extended. Aside from not accepting less than the full path name for the PERSONAL.RC file (UUPC/extended will divine this from the path of the UUPC.RC file, or even the LOGNAME variable), and not understanding the multiple environment prefixes allowed by UUPC/extended (ie. DOS.Editor=) it seems to work. I've loaded this into the tools directory of kewgate for the interested who want to download it; it's also on ftp.cdrom.com in /pub/simtel/msdos/waffle, which is where I got it from. > I would like to have something like Tin, which I had on my Amiga. There > are great Windows based NNTP news readers like WinVN and Nx. Is there a > NNTP server for Winsock and UUPC? I could volunteer to write one. Someone has an NNTP port in progress for OS/2 and UUPC, and Jeff Coffler has his full flavored NNS News server for Windows NT. I would suggest for a network you need one of the 32 OSes, be it those two or Linux. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 MSG FROM OPERATOR: OUR HAMSTER IS SICK. SYSTEM SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATELY. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 10:17:30 -0100 From: news@devree.xs4all.nl Subject: Is there ANY news reader for UUPC? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sun, 02 Apr 1995 22:37:01 -0100, "Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended Support" wrote: > On Sun, 02 Apr 1995 15:16:16 +0300, "Harri Pesonen" wrote: > > Now I begin to wonder if there is any decent news reader for UUPC at all? > > For DOS? Since you eliminated SNEWS, no. I am currently using Umail. This is a great news reader for DOS. It didn't support UUPC, but with the great help of the author, I have gotten it to work with UUPC. Umail 1.50c is available at ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/ibmpc/umail. I have created some scripts for all news processing. If someone is interested, drop me an e-mail and I will send them the scripts. Hope this helps, Bernard -- Bernard de Vree e-mail: bernard@devree.xs4all.nl ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 20:16:00 -0400 From: Help@kew.com Subject: Modem files To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 03 Apr 1995 23:36:52 -0400, "Brian Adkins" wrote: > I've been using UUPC/extended successfully with the USRSPRT2.MDM > file at 9600 baud. I changed my SYSTEMS file to use 14400 baud > and the initialization is failing now. It appears to be failing > on the ATZ command. Do you know why changing the baud rate used > in the SYSTEMS file could cause the initialization to fail? Because 14400 is not a normal serial port speed. Go to 19200 and then lock your modem speed and use hard flow control. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "And some they will and some they won't And with some it's just as well . . ." - Supertramp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 22:00:57 -0500 (EST) From: bilbo@vnet.net Subject: Need some help with news feeds... To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I am currently running a UUCP node under Waffle, and then gating it into my BBS software. I have a couple of questions about doing this with UUPC... 1) How do I set it up to feed news to the 'pseudo-site' that represents the BBS? I have perused(sp?) the docs, which are only current to I believe 1.12k? They made no mention of feeding news, so I'm assuming that only the new 1.12n is capable of this. I have scanned the source to SYS and RNEWS, and noticed that it uses a file called SYS, and I have set that up. Is there anything else I need to do? 2) Is there a way to change the code (easily) so that directories are not created with extensions? What I mean by this is, instead of it creating a directory called "C:\UUPC\NEWS\ALT\ASCII-AR.T" have it create a directory called "C:\UUPC\NEWS\ALT\ASCII-AR". I figure there is just one line that does it, but after scanning the source for over an hour, I came up with nothing. I need it to do this so that the conversion software I use to feed Usenet news into the BBS can read the articles without munging it up with batch files. Thanks for any help with this, being new to UUPC (sorta) I have not yet become fully accustomed to its workings. =============================================================================== Bilbo aka Kevin Carter | "Excitable little fellow. Gets funny queer fits, Gastonia, North Carolina USA | but he is one of the best, one of the best - as bilbo@tlm.vnet.net | fierce as a dragon in a pinch..." =============================================================================== The Lonely Mountain BBS -=- 704.866.7353 -=- tlm.vnet.net -=- SysOp : Me! ------------------------------ Date: 06 Apr 1995 06:47:00 +0100 From: hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de Subject: Tip: Pager To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Hi, I'm just running an UUPC test installation. My first problem: I couldn't use my standard lister for mail. When I configured Editor=EPM %s 'postme ma 1 75' Pager=EPM %s 'browse on' the editor worked, but the lister came up with an empty window. I just solved the problem: Pager=CMD.EXE /c EPM %s 'browse on' works. hajo -- ----[Hans-Joachim Zierke ]---------------------------------------------- [Rathenower Straße 23 ] [D-10559 Berlin-Moabit] hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de [ +49-30 / 394 84 45] ----[Fax:(0)30 / 394 84 47]---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 08:01:57 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Tip: Pager To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On 06 Apr 1995 06:47:00 +0100, hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm just running an UUPC test installation. My first problem: I couldn't > use my standard lister for mail. When I configured > > Editor=EPM %s 'postme ma 1 75' > Pager=EPM %s 'browse on' > > the editor worked, but the lister came up with an empty window. > > I just solved the problem: > Pager=CMD.EXE /c EPM %s 'browse on' > works. If the editor works, the pager should work as well. I'll look at it. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. "All my other lovers will tell you I'm just a pleasure seeker, And for once I really must agree . . ." - Dead or Alive ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 22:20:14 -0100 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: UUPC for Windows To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Wed, 29 Mar 1995 14:26:05 -0500 (EST), larry@zorsan.com wrote: > Do you have any documents available for running > UUPC under Windows? > > I saw the references on pages 144-146 and 148 of > adavanced.prn and dirk@omico.om.org's mail on > 14-feb. Advanced.prn gives setup info, but I > need some help on running the various programs > and passing arguements to them. They in run the same manner of the command line versions, with the addition that UUCICO accepts -U to run the UUXQT command after completing. > Also, I just uucp'd the upc12k?? set of files > and the Windows versions came up as 1.12j. 1.12j. Hmmmmmmm. Not sure why. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. The best way to accelerate Windows is at escape velocity. ------------------------------ Date: 11 Apr 1995 17:49:00 +0100 From: hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de Subject: uupoll -e function To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Last night I did my first try to set up automatic polls. To test it, I used: uupoll -sfog -x3 -f2350 -e2359 or numbers near that. After RTFM, I assumed that UUPC would begin calling at 23.50, try calling until 23.59, and go asleep until 23.50 the next day - the default -i is 4 hours, and the -e before it. In fact it called at 23.50, and did another call at 23.59. Obviously I do not understand what -e is going to do. Any good explanation? hajo -- ----[Hans-Joachim Zierke ]---------------------------------------------- [Rathenower Straße 23 ] [D-10559 Berlin-Moabit] hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de [ +49-30 / 394 84 45] ----[Fax:(0)30 / 394 84 47]---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 09:24:14 -0400 (EDT) From: larry@zorsan.com Subject: UUPOLL and DST To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sunday evening, 04/02, I found that uupoll adjusted for Daylight Saving Time. At 20:14, when I typed: uupoll -f 2015 It came back and said it was sleeping for an hour. This is on DOS version 1.12k. On Monday, it was ok. Larry. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 20:05:56 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: UUPOLL and DST To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 4 Apr 1995 09:24:14 -0400 (EDT), larry@zorsan.com wrote: > On Sunday evening, 04/02, I found that uupoll adjusted > for Daylight Saving Time. At 20:14, when I typed: > > uupoll -f 2015 > > It came back and said it was sleeping for an hour. This > is on DOS version 1.12k. > > On Monday, it was ok. This is noted in the manual page for UUPOLL. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. "Breathe deep, the gathering gloom | Cold-hearted orb that rules the night Pizza boxes fill your room | Dead flies in your ceiling light Roving roaches seal your doom | Pipes are grey and plaster white, Run right out and buy a broom, | But we decide which version's right You can use the rent money. | And which is a parody." ------------------------------ Date: 09 Apr 1995 22:35:00 +0100 From: hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de Subject: Wrong path line To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Hi, I just see that I do not have _one_ UUPC test system, I have _two_ of them! :-) fog.in-berlin.de!hanta!hanta.in-berlin.de ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^End of path. Any tips what kind of config error might have happened? hajo -- ----[Hans-Joachim Zierke ]---------------------------------------------- [Rathenower Straße 23 ] [D-10559 Berlin-Moabit] hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de [ +49-30 / 394 84 45] ----[Fax:(0)30 / 394 84 47]---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of UUPC-Info-Request Digest ******************************