Date: Sat, 15 Apr 95 21:01:32 EDT From: Snuffles@kew.com Subject: UUPC-Info-Request Digest 1995 #12 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 12 Today's Topics: compress flawed? gzip instead of compress How do I switch control messages off? (2 msgs) Installing 1.12k problem Need some help with news feeds... Optimizing the speed (2 msgs) SYS file UUPC/extended 1.12k end of file bug in rmail uupoll -e function Wrong path line Z-Mail and UUPC (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, 15 Apr 1995 19:07:57 -0400 From: Software@kew.com Subject: compress flawed? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 10 Apr 1995 20:36:32 -0400, "Mustafa Soysal" wrote: > Have you noticed compress generating flawed files under OS/2 so far? > > There is a post that gets corrupted every time at the same place if I > create a compressed batch. Some strange problem exists (see the following from Jochen), I have not determined what the problem is. On Wed, 5 Apr 95 20:36:15 +0200, "Jochen Friedrich" wrote: > Hi Drew, > > Since i installed UUPC/Extended 1.12n, i frequently get this > 'Batched: Skipped...' messages from newsrun. I know, you blamed gzip for > this, but i can't share your opinion, here. I unpacked one of the batches > manually and compared the result to the spool file created by rnews and > uux using OS/2 COMP.EXE. The first file is the spool file, the second file > is the file i unpacked manually. It looks like the CR (0x0D) character > gets lost somewhere. Probably (i didn't track this down, yet) the output > of gzip is somewhere read in ascii instead of binary mode. Normally, > a news article doesn't contain 0x0D characters, but if they are present, > they will cause this 'Batched: Skipped...' error messages: > > Compare file C:\uucp\spool\audio\d\1o5q7&- and file C:sgs. > > A COMPARE error occurred at OFFSET 2FC15 > Mismatching byte of file 1 = A > > Mismatching byte of file 2 = D > > A COMPARE error occurred at OFFSET 2FC16 > Mismatching byte of file 1 = 2D > > Mismatching byte of file 2 = A > > A COMPARE error occurred at OFFSET 2FC5E > Mismatching byte of file 1 = A > > Mismatching byte of file 2 = 2D > > A COMPARE error occurred at OFFSET 2FC5F > Mismatching byte of file 1 = 20 > > Mismatching byte of file 2 = D > > A COMPARE error occurred at OFFSET 2FC60 > Mismatching byte of file 1 = 20 > > Mismatching byte of file 2 = A > > A COMPARE error occurred at OFFSET 2FC65 > Mismatching byte of file 1 = 22 > > Mismatching byte of file 2 = 20 > > A COMPARE error occurred at OFFSET 2FC67 > Mismatching byte of file 1 = 20 > > Mismatching byte of file 2 = 22 > > A COMPARE error occurred at OFFSET 2FC6D > Mismatching byte of file 1 = 53 > > Mismatching byte of file 2 = 20 > > A COMPARE error occurred at OFFSET 2FC6E > Mismatching byte of file 1 = 51 > > Mismatching byte of file 2 = 20 > > A COMPARE error occurred at OFFSET 2FC6F > Mismatching byte of file 1 = 55 > > Mismatching byte of file 2 = 53 > > There were 10 or more mismatches in comparing > the files. The system is ending the COMPARE command. > > Cheers, > Jochen -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "Please send Chocolate." - Snuffles P. Bear "Well, okay, Snuffles." - Drew Derbyshire ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 19:02:58 -0400 From: Software@kew.com Subject: gzip instead of compress To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 10 Apr 1995 17:55:59 -0400, "Mustafa Soysal" wrote: > I tried defining gzip -9 and gzip -d for compress and uncompress in > uupc.rc > > Somehow gzip sits there waiting for input from the keyboard. Are you > aware of the correct setting or the problem? I use this: compress=gzip -f -v -S .z %s uncompress=gzip -d -v -S .z %s -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "Please send Chocolate." - Snuffles P. Bear "Well, okay, Snuffles." - Drew Derbyshire ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Apr 95 20:46:54 +0100 From: johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl Subject: How do I switch control messages off? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Hello, Recently someone canceled a message I wanted to keep. How do you disable the use of cancel (or control) messages with uupc/extended 1.12k? I already put options-nohonorcontrol in my uupc.rc file but that didn't work. Greetings, Johan Wevers. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers || The only nature of reality is physics. johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl || http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html Finger johanw@xs4all.nl for my PGP public key. PGP-KeyID: 0xD42F80B1 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 20:49:23 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: How do I switch control messages off? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Thu, 13 Apr 95 20:46:54 +0100, johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl wrote: > Recently someone canceled a message I wanted to keep. How do you disable > the use of cancel (or control) messages with uupc/extended 1.12k? I > already put options-nohonorcontrol in my uupc.rc file but that didn't > work. Disabling cancel messages are not supported. Sorry. -- 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. "And some they will and some they won't And with some it's just as well . . ." - Supertramp ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 20:39:39 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Installing 1.12k problem To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 10 Apr 95 22:01:24 +0000, tannen@crusader.stat.com wrote: > 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? Yup. Install the WARP IAK's TCP/IP support, or just copy uucicon.exe over uucico.exe. > Also, I didn't see any new docs. Did I miss something in the index or > at the ftp site? Docs are still back at 1.12b. -- 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. "And some they will and some they won't And with some it's just as well . . ." - Supertramp ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 20:47:18 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Need some help with news feeds... To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Wed, 12 Apr 1995 22:00:57 -0500 (EST), bilbo@vnet.net wrote: > 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? 1.12b, actuaqlly. *sigh* > 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? Beats the heck of out me, because I don't know what are you trying to do with the pseudo-site. To receive news locally, yes, set up a SYS file. Ours looks like this: # News configuration file, automatically generated by UUPC/extended 1.12m # at Sun, 01 Jan 1995 19:12:00 -0500 # The local system, kendra ME:all # Our news feed, not batched to speed our posts ci-pioneer/epsilon:all/!local,!kew:: # Mail delivery of rec.humor.funny humor:rec.humor.funny::rmail humor # Mail to athena of chess. We want to really batch this #athena:rec.games.chess::rmail athena!chess athena:rec.games.chess:cBF: kewgate:rec.games.chess:BF: > 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. The names are formed in importng.C. You need to lop each partial name down to eight characters before passing it to importpath(). Have fun. -ahd- -- 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. "And some they will and some they won't And with some it's just as well . . ." - Supertramp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 09:17:34 From: MARCO@vero.it Subject: Optimizing the speed To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I am currently using UUPC 1.12 with a US Robotics 2880 Sporster modem, the computer-modem speed is setted to 57600, the connection is 14400 bauds. I think the transfer of data is very slow because I see the RD & SD leds flashing but most of the time they are both off. Is there any way to optimise/debug the connection to achive the maximum transfer speed ?? Thank you Ciao ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Marco Pifferi C/O Vero International Software S.R.L. Via Prelle 30 10090 Romano C.se (TO) ITALY E-MAIL: marco@vero.it ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 20:52:05 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Optimizing the speed To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Fri, 14 Apr 1995 09:17:34 , MARCO@vero.it wrote: > I am currently using UUPC 1.12 with a US Robotics 2880 Sporster modem, the > computer-modem speed is setted to 57600, the connection is 14400 bauds. > I think the transfer of data is very slow because I see the RD & SD leds > flashing but most of the time they are both off. Enable the options=syslog and then run UUTRAF to see what the system is REALLY doing. > Is there any way to optimise/debug the connection to achive the maximum > transfer speed ?? Switch to a large packet protocol, and/or disable compression (v42bis) and error correction if need be. Both compression and EC require buffering the data, which slows down small packets. Large packet protocols, like 'v' and 512 byte packet size 'G' and 'g' have enough data to keep the modem busy, and hence they keep trucking at a decent pace. -- 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. "And some they will and some they won't And with some it's just as well . . ." - Supertramp ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 17:57:45 -0400 From: Help@kew.com Subject: SYS file To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Thu, 13 Apr 1995 23:17:40 -0400, "Courtney Moriarta" wrote: > So what should I put into the SYS file in order to pipe a > newsgroup into a mailbox? > > You said you were doing that at kew.com, and that sounds easy. # Mail delivery of rec.humor.funny humor:rec.humor.funny::rmail humor The primary restriction is that you must have enough memory available to run RMAIL so nested. This can be hard under UUPOLL/RNEWS/NEWSRUN. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "Please send Chocolate." - Snuffles P. Bear "Well, okay, Snuffles." - Drew Derbyshire ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 17:56:26 -0400 From: Help@kew.com Subject: UUPC/extended 1.12k end of file bug in rmail To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Wed, 12 Apr 1995 20:58:07 -0700, "Daniel Fandrich" wrote: > I've discovered that rmail will stop processing a message as soon as > it sees a DOS EOF (^Z) control character. The particular message this > character was in was created by reading a DOS text file into > a Unix mail program which doesn't strip control characters. Yup. That's a DOS run time library restriction, that Cntrl-Z terminates mail. Given that mail should only contain printable characters, it's no worth trying to read the file in binary mode, sorry. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "Please send Chocolate." - Snuffles P. Bear "Well, okay, Snuffles." - Drew Derbyshire ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 20:41:17 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: uupoll -e function To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On 11 Apr 1995 17:49:00 +0100, hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de wrote: > > 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? It called again at 2359? Hmm. A bug. In any case, just drop the parameter, -e says to exit at that time, which is not what you want. -- 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. "And some they will and some they won't And with some it's just as well . . ." - Supertramp ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 20:38:40 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Wrong path line To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On 09 Apr 1995 22:35:00 +0100, hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de wrote: > 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? Systems tend to see that the local system not on the from line and stuff it on themselves. UUPC/extended's preference it identify itself with it's full domain seems to be viewed as a bug by many other packages. -- 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. "And some they will and some they won't And with some it's just as well . . ." - Supertramp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 17:10:07 -0400 (EDT) From: larry@zorsan.com Subject: Z-Mail and UUPC To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Sorry for having you read me the manual for my question about uupoll and DST. Do you know of anyone who has interfaced Z-Code's Z-Mail (Winodws) with UUPC? They have a nice front end but setting up the transport gets expensive. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Larry. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 20:48:44 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Z-Mail and UUPC To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Thu, 13 Apr 1995 17:10:07 -0400 (EDT), larry@zorsan.com wrote: > Sorry for having you read me the manual for my > question about uupoll and DST. > > Do you know of anyone who has interfaced > Z-Code's Z-Mail (Winodws) with UUPC? They have a > nice front end but setting up the transport > gets expensive. As I think you were already told, they (sort of) support this. Look on their Web page if you have can, http:://www.ncd.com. -- 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. "And some they will and some they won't And with some it's just as well . . ." - Supertramp ------------------------------ End of UUPC-Info-Request Digest ******************************