Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 20:49:54 EDT From: Snuffles@kew.com Subject: UUPC-Info-Request Digest 1995 #33 To: uupc-info-digest@kew.com Message-ID: Reply-To: UUPC-Info-Request@kew.com UUPC-Info-Request Digest Mon, 18 Sep 95 Volume 1995: Issue 33 Today's Topics: 1.12o and OK = success bug in news DOS Based newsreaders (3 msgs) new UUPC documentation (3 msgs) Odd addresses & panics in UUXQT Problems while calling from WinNet 2.20 Searching for a news Programm under NT System Alias file ? uuxqt - newsrun Where is uupc version 1.12o for Windows 3.x? (2 msgs) Windows based newsreaders? (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: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 17:45:35 +0200 From: silvio@ornetix.spacenet.de Subject: 1.12o and OK = success To: UUPC/Extended mailing list > The subject sais it all, uupc1.12o for NT solved all my problems and > runs beautifull until now. > > Many thanx, > > Ciao > Stefan > -- > "Leverkusen stoppt die Seuche !!!" > (kicker nach dem Spiel BVB-LEV) > nur ein test ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 21:00:29 -0400 From: Software@kew.com Subject: bug in news To: UUPC/Extended mailing list UUPC/extended 1.12o has a serious bug its news support; under certain conditions, the search for a news group will fail dereferencing a NULL pointer if the search was for a non-existent group under a valid group. This will of course be fixed in 1.12p, I expect this weekend. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "Phasors locked on target, Captain." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 09:54:42 -0800 From: dan@fch.wimsey.bc.ca Subject: DOS Based newsreaders To: UUPC/Extended mailing list > What are people using as DOS based news readers for UUPC (other than > SNEWS 1.91)? Is it possible to interface PC-Pine to UUPC for example? > Snews is very nice but only really suitable for leaf nodes. I am > wondering if there is anything that will inject news into a UUPC > based network that will take advantage of the new news distribution > capability of UUPC The next version of SNews uses inews for posting articles, so the distribution capabilities will be as good as UUPC's. Let me know if you'd like to beta test it when it's ready shortly. >>> Dan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 19:41:25 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: DOS Based newsreaders To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 11 Sep 1995 09:54:42 -0800, dan@fch.wimsey.bc.ca wrote: > > What are people using as DOS based news readers for UUPC (other than > > SNEWS 1.91)? Is it possible to interface PC-Pine to UUPC for example? > > Snews is very nice but only really suitable for leaf nodes. I am > > wondering if there is anything that will inject news into a UUPC > > based network that will take advantage of the new news distribution > > capability of UUPC > > The next version of SNews uses inews for posting articles, so the > distribution capabilities will be as good as UUPC's. Let me know if > you'd like to beta test it when it's ready shortly. Huh? But snews doesn't use the UUPC/extended configuration files... I suppose you could configure only remote systems and leave SNEWS to handle the local system, but articles would never show up locally because INEWS no longer calls RNEWS. -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. "The religious right scares the hell out of me!" - Barry Goldwater ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 21:36:49 -0800 From: dan@fch.wimsey.bc.ca Subject: DOS Based newsreaders To: UUPC/Extended mailing list > Huh? But snews doesn't use the UUPC/extended configuration files... I > suppose you could configure only remote systems and leave SNEWS to > handle the local system, but articles would never show up locally > because INEWS no longer calls RNEWS. SNews now calls UUPC's inews.exe when posting an article. When I use inews 1.12i to post, it spools a copy of the article to my mailserv (I don't have any distributions set up) and files a copy in the incoming directory since I have set options=snews. When the SNews unbatch program is run, the copy in the incoming directory is placed into the newsbase and all is well. I haven't looked at 1.12o yet, but it sounds like you are saying this will no longer work. How are articles delivered if inews doesn't call rnews? >>> Dan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 4:48:25 CET From: cp@scimitar.pb.owl.de Subject: new UUPC documentation To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Salute Drew & Co, will *p include a ASC a/o W4W 2.* documentation ? Just had to notice, that *o has an W4W "6.0" documenation, which can'T be imported by DeScribe 4.* (OS/2) and I'll guess, neither it can't be yet by DeScribe 5/StarWriter or any other favorit OS/2 wp. Gruss Chris P.S. TeX would be perfect 8-) Yes, there are a lot of better things to do than type the docs as TeX ones... -- Chris Pallasch cp@scimitar.pb.owl.de ___/__ Drop the top :) cp@uni-paderborn.de /o___o/ R.S.O.C.G. q73765@pbhrzx.uni-paderborn.de ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 07:16:42 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: new UUPC documentation To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 11 Sep 95 4:48:25 CET, cp@scimitar.pb.owl.de wrote: > will *p include a ASC a/o W4W 2.* documentation ? No. We have migrated to Word for Windows 6.0 and will not be returning to the earlier versions. > P.S. TeX would be perfect 8-) > Yes, there are a lot of better things to > do than type the docs as TeX ones... In this day and age, more people (alas) have WfW than TeX. That plus WfW is the standard for Katherine and I in other work dictates the UUPC/extended documents will continue in Word for Windows 6.0. We will, however, happily make good on our promise to ship out the hardcopy of the docs to the those who registered for them, I suspect around the middle of October. (This is a hint that it's a good time to register for hardcopy docs.) -- 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. "On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the Wolf with the Red Roses . . ." - Jim Steinman ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 19:32:23 -0400 From: Software@kew.com Subject: new UUPC documentation To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 12 Sep 95 6:28:17 -0500, "March Hare" wrote: > uupcinfo@kew.com wrote: > > In this day and age, more people (alas) have WfW than TeX. That plus > > WfW is the standard for Katherine and I in other work dictates the > > UUPC/extended documents will continue in Word for Windows 6.0. > > There is nothing preventing you from doing Save As in order to save > it in an older format for those of us who do not have very many > Microsoft products. That way, at least, there is some chance of > AmiPro/2 reading it. This is of general interest, and so cc'ed to the list ... I could save it in a number of formats, all which would lose some formatting data and add to the space required on the file servers to store it. This, like printing it in multiple formats, is the path to madness for us. I'd rather work on getting it out to the people we promised the hardcopy in return for their support to rather than trying to give it away in a mangled format. I'm sorry if that seems hardcore. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "Take it calmly and serene, it's the famous final scene." - Bob Seger ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 17:43:15 -0400 From: Software@kew.com Subject: Odd addresses & panics in UUXQT To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sat, 9 Sep 1995 11:24:28 +0200, "Stephen Marquard" wrote: > I recently fixed a UUPC system where nothing was being unspooled > because of an rmail address which looked like "-user@site.domain" (a > leading dash). > > RFC-822 doesn't seem to specifically disallow this, though anyone > would obviously be daft to create usernames with leading dashes; this > was obviously a user error, and the address made it from another > Netware LAN, through Mercury, smail and Taylor UUCP without them > choking. > > UUXQT however refused to pass this to rmail, and panicked at line > 1422 (1.12o), eg. > > ... > Input read: R scm > Input read: C rmail -scm@silver.wcape.school.za > uuxqt: executing "rmail -scm@silver.wcape.school.za" for user scm at picasso > Set environment string UU_USER=scm > ValidateCommand: Command "rmail" explicitly allowed > Disallowed option -scm@silver.wcape.school.za ignored > Address "(null)" too long (0 chars)! 120 available, short fall would be 93 > UUXQT aborting at line 1422 in file uucp\uuxqt.c This will be fixed in 1.12p. The "--" option will be explicltly passed to RMAIL from UUXQT (and internally when recursively calling itself) which will disallow further major options and cause them to be parsed as addresses. "-b" and "-c" will still be accepted in -w mode, but they are harmless. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "Does the Enterprise use DOS v 2356.0?" - Tyler Muffly ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:23:01 EDT From: bacharach!andya@vax.cs.pitt.edu Subject: Problems while calling from WinNet 2.20 To: UUPC/Extended mailing list >From: pitt!kew.com!Software > >On Fri, 08 Sep 1995 13:54:53, "Tahir Mufti" wrote: >> As WinNet is quite a popular software, I was wondering if other >> people had made similar complaints? > >No complaints on UUPC/extended and WinNET failing to initialize on the >protocol message. Anyone? I also tried WinNET V2.20 or so. It would not successfully call into a UUPC/extended system. I messed with it a while and finally gave up. It appeared to be WinNET that dropped the ball in the protocol. As I recall, the protocol information was exchanged, a file transfer was requested and then WinNET never sent the file. I gave up for lack of tech support or debbugging info from WinNET. Andy -- Andy Alexander Bacharach Inc. -- Gas Detection Group 625 Alpha Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15238 +1 412 963 2102 bacharach!andya@vax.cs.pitt.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 20:28:13 MET From: yves@attila.westfalen.de Subject: Searching for a news Programm under NT To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I am searching for a News program under NT if searched many ftp-Servers but never found one. Thanx for all informations -- Ciao SCALL: 01681-1513163 Yves Sandfort -+- Fax: 02504-3068 ------O------ PGP available ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 3:56:52 CET From: cp@scimitar.pb.owl.de Subject: System Alias file ? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Salute David, > 3. Can anyone tell me why the following lines in a system aliases > file would not work? > # *--------------------------------------------------------------------* > # * The following aliases are used by DZwo * > # *--------------------------------------------------------------------* > prayer: | g:\dzwo\d2p.exe -# -d Prayer > > prayer-request: | g:\dzwo\d2p.exe -# -R > > prayer-archive: g:\usr\pub\prayer\prayers.1995 > > prayer-users: :include: g:\dzwo\prayer.mbr > > dzwo-error: g:\usr\tannen\dzwo.errors Hm... can't imagine why this doesn't work :-( It's just the way (...request) your subscription to dzwo-info was processed and as far as I know it succeeded, or didn't it ? Just saw it (normaly I don't poll by hand, but I was awaiting urgent mail) starring at my uuxqt :-) I currently use uupc 1.12j (for OS/2), 'o' to be installed on monday or tuesday [ thx Drew for hints on alternative servers] and haven't had any probs yet -- which version are you using ? For testing your alias file, you might use a simple cat: |cat entry (+rmail-debugging), to display contentce of mail. BTW, any probs, when directly piping messages into DZwo ? cat rfc-message | dzwo -v9 -# -d prayer Gruss Chris -- Chris Pallasch cp@scimitar.pb.owl.de ___/__ Drop the top :) cp@uni-paderborn.de /o___o/ R.S.O.C.G. q73765@pbhrzx.uni-paderborn.de ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 95 11:50:26 CET From: cp@scimitar.pb.owl.de Subject: uuxqt - newsrun To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Salute, I just installed 1.12o (OS/2) and had to notice, that nearly all newsbatches go to /dev/null, cause the newsrun call as produced by rnews's uux.cmd misses a debug-level, but set's an -x flag. Any hints or workarounds ? Gruss Chris P.S. UUPCDEBUG >=1 doesn't help. -- Chris Pallasch cp@scimitar.pb.owl.de ___/__ Drop the top :) cp@uni-paderborn.de /o___o/ R.S.O.C.G. q73765@pbhrzx.uni-paderborn.de ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 23:41:40 +0200 From: trgb23k1@nettuno.it Subject: Where is uupc version 1.12o for Windows 3.x? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I have found the new version of uupc at ftp.clarkson.edu but where is uupc version 1.12o for Windows 3.x? Thank you. Andrea ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 07:12:21 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Where is uupc version 1.12o for Windows 3.x? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sun, 10 Sep 1995 23:41:40 +0200, trgb23k1@nettuno.it wrote: > I have found the new version of uupc at ftp.clarkson.edu but where is uupc > version 1.12o for Windows 3.x? Please subscribe to the UUPC-Info list before submitting questions to it. (It appears you did not see the announcement of 1.12o) This release was announced on uupc-info and uupc-announce as not including the Windows 3.1 binaries not the 16 bit OS/2 binaries. Katherine is about 1/4 with the document review, when those are done and I've tested some bug fixes 1.12p should go up as a new release with the additional document formats and also a Windows 3.1 version. -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. "On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the Wolf with the Red Roses . . ." - Jim Steinman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 17:05:34 mst-8 From: leemal@pc.jaring.my Subject: Windows based newsreaders? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Does anyone on this list know of any Windows (3.1/3.11/'95) based newsreaders (preferable freeware or not crippled shareware) to use with UUPC/extended? Sorry if it's a bit of topic, but i'd appreciate any suggestions people can give. Thanks. -- Lee Tet Woo ---> Happy Garden, 58200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ---> leemal@pc.jaring.my ---> The Unicus in #beginner on Undernet. --!@@1 111 Warni!@, ma@!er error. do yo!@ want to co!$#@nue? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:44:40 +0100 (WET DST) From: johan@hsb.nest.nl Subject: Windows based newsreaders? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 18 Sep 1995 leemal@pc.jaring.my wrote: > Does anyone on this list know of any Windows (3.1/3.11/'95) based > newsreaders (preferable freeware or not crippled shareware) to use > with UUPC/extended? Sorry if it's a bit of topic, but i'd appreciate > any suggestions people can give. Thanks. > -- > Lee Tet Woo ---> Happy Garden, 58200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. > ---> leemal@pc.jaring.my > ---> The Unicus in #beginner on Undernet. > --!@@1 111 Warni!@, ma@!er error. do yo!@ want to co!$#@nue? > There isn't. The only thing I could come up with is using Helldiver and WinPmail with Waffle and fxuucico instead of UUPC. A pity. Regards, Johan Johan Henselmans work: johan@netsense.nl tel: (+31)-(0)20-6261180 http://www.netsense.nl Netsense vof, Nieuwe Herengracht 149 1011 SG Amsterdam home: johan@hsb.nest.nl tel: (+31)-(0)20-6267538 Nieuwe Herengracht 147d 1011 SG Amsterdam ------------------------------ End of UUPC-Info-Request Digest ******************************