Date: Mon, 6 Nov 95 08:39:51 EST From: Snuffles@kew.com Subject: UUPC-Info-Request Digest 1995 #41 To: uupc-info-digest@kew.com Message-ID: Reply-To: UUPC-Info-Request@kew.com UUPC-Info-Request Digest Mon, 6 Nov 95 Volume 1995: Issue 41 Today's Topics: (Fwd) Crashing rmail.exe within Windows 1.12o, uuxqt and newmail errors Any ideas Can UUPC/Extended continue broken job transfer after connection resumption. Is there a FAQ? Problems with UUPC on TCP/IP-connection Problem with latest version of uupc UUPC-Info-Request Digest 1995 #39 uupc 12o and core dumps (2 msgs) Windows 95 and UUPC/extended 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: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 08:26:22 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: (Fwd) Crashing rmail.exe within Windows To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Wed, 18 Oct 1995 19:49:29 +0000, CHUNG@emis.mec.gov.na wrote: > Forwarded message: > From: Self > To: uupc-info@kew.com > Subject: Crashing rmail.exe within Windows > Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 12:05:08 > > We're running Pegasus for Windows which calls > UUPC (DOS) for transport. When > Pegasus calls rmail in a minimized DOS window, > Windows occasionally crashes saying that the > DOS window executed an illegal instruction. > > It doesn't happen too often, just enough to be > annoying. Anyone out there knows what going on? > > Is there a windows rmail.exe that may solve the > problem? If you can upgrade to Windows 95, then do so and use the 1.12o 32 bit (NT) binaries. No, I don't know of a specific bug in 1.12j rmail, but you might try the 1.12p version when released later this week. -- 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 birds are singing, the flowers are budding, and it is time for Miss Manners to tell young lovers to stop necking in public. It's not that Miss Manners is immune to romance. Miss Manners has been known to squeeze a gentleman's arm while being helped over a curb, and, in her wild youth, even to press a dainty slipper against a foot or two under the dinner table. Miss Manners also believes that the sight of people strolling hand in hand or arm in arm or arm in hand dresses up a city considerably more than the more familiar sight of people shaking umbrellas at one another. What Miss Manners objects to is the kind of activity that frightens the horses on the street ..." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 20:12:46 -0500 From: ahd@kew.com Subject: 1.12o, uuxqt and newmail errors To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sun, 5 Nov 1995 09:07:52 +1300 (NZDT), dvh@Aristotl.auckland.ac.nz wrote: > I have now set up a working system with UUPC as the connection to the ISP > (Summary of front ends and the way its glued together to come). > > The system is NT3.51 based and uses at to check for mail from local users > (via SMTP) and then to dial out. When the incoming news feed has large > files, newsrun bombs, although the files are converted to nns format. UUXQT > reports that permission is denied for the log file, and the feed files stay > in spool/machine/... . > > I recall a comment a week or two ago about this problem but didn't save it > (focused on mail at the time). Can anyone shed any light on it. Of interest > is that it seems also to cause UUPC to not make connections until the system > has been re-booted and / or to cause at to forget about the jobs. If you are also using a SYS file, the error is a bad pointer in newsrun, to be fixed in 1.12p this week. (I got the two sections I need to of the documents, once I fix a Windows 95 bug I can ship it all out.) -- Internet: ahd@kew.com Voice: 617-641-3739 "Then I heard that long whistle whine . . ." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 08:21:44 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Any ideas To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 9 Oct 1995 13:00:27 GMT+1200, KDK@PHOBOS.taranaki.ac.nz wrote: > When one of our uupc users tries to send a mail message to a > listserver he gets the following error. Anyone got any ideas what the > proble is? > > Connected to tamvm1.tamu.edu: > >>> MAIL From: This should be in the form Greg@tpgbd.uutip.taranaki.ac.nz > <<< 501 Syntax Error. Missing Domain Name > 554 listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu... Remote protocol error > > ----- Message header follows ----- > Return-Path: > Received: from tpgbd.UUCP by taranaki.ac.nz (4.1/SMI-4.1) > id AA29990; Sun, 8 Oct 95 23:38:06+130 > Received: by tpgbd.uutip.taranaki.ac.nz (UUPC/extended 1.12k); > Sun, 08 Oct 1995 23:35:40 -0400 > Message-Id: <3078988c.tpgbd@tpgbd.uutip.taranaki.ac.nz> > From: > To: listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu > > Kerry Koppert > k.koppert@taranaki.ac.nz Your mailer is tossing the RFC-822 address (user@node) into UUCP format (node!user) and then passing it to SMTP --- which wants the RFC-822 format. Whatever mail is doing the rewrite (or failing to convert it back) needs to be reconfigured. -- 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 birds are singing, the flowers are budding, and it is time for Miss Manners to tell young lovers to stop necking in public. It's not that Miss Manners is immune to romance. Miss Manners has been known to squeeze a gentleman's arm while being helped over a curb, and, in her wild youth, even to press a dainty slipper against a foot or two under the dinner table. Miss Manners also believes that the sight of people strolling hand in hand or arm in arm or arm in hand dresses up a city considerably more than the more familiar sight of people shaking umbrellas at one another. What Miss Manners objects to is the kind of activity that frightens the horses on the street ..." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 08:24:17 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Can UUPC/Extended continue broken job transfer after connection resumption. To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Wed, 11 Oct 1995 14:06:43 +0300, axo@stoli.ims.intel.com wrote: > Now I use Unixware servers for transfer mail and files through dialup long > distance line by means of UUCP protocol. Unixware UUCP protocol release can > continue file transfer after connection resumption, if accidentally > disconnection > happen. It is very important for long distance bad quality line, that we have in > Russia. > Now I want to move all network task to NT servers and use UUPC/extended for > dialup connection. As far as I know UUPC/extended can't support file transfer > resumption after broken connection. Is it true? And if so, Is it being > planed to > support this feather in future release? I will not be able to use UUPC for NT > untill this feather will be realized. No, it doesn't support it, and it will not in the immediate future because of other concerns like clean up of existing features. -- 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 birds are singing, the flowers are budding, and it is time for Miss Manners to tell young lovers to stop necking in public. It's not that Miss Manners is immune to romance. Miss Manners has been known to squeeze a gentleman's arm while being helped over a curb, and, in her wild youth, even to press a dainty slipper against a foot or two under the dinner table. Miss Manners also believes that the sight of people strolling hand in hand or arm in arm or arm in hand dresses up a city considerably more than the more familiar sight of people shaking umbrellas at one another. What Miss Manners objects to is the kind of activity that frightens the horses on the street ..." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 20:11:04 -0500 From: ahd@kew.com Subject: Is there a FAQ? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Thu, 02 Nov 1995 10:25:58 +0000, suzanne@black.co.uk wrote: > Being new to uupc I was wondering if there is a FAQ anywhere > I could ftp? The (almost) latest docs are ftp.clarkson.edu in Word 6.0 format. The FAQ is buried in there. > We run a NT server here. One of our users wants to pick up > his mail from his mailbox here using uucp. The configuration > in the docs is for dialing in to pick up mail rather than allowing > dial in to you. Can we do this with uupc? You don't say what format his mail box is in -- is it a UUPC/extended mailbox. It won't work for a MS-Mail format mailbox without work, for a UUPC/extended mailbox just add a forward entry to the system aliases file. -ahd- -- Internet: ahd@kew.com Voice: 617-641-3739 "Then I heard that long whistle whine . . ." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 12:14:28 +0100 From: stefan@pink.allcon.com Subject: Problems with UUPC on TCP/IP-connection To: UUPC/Extended mailing list "Drew Derbyshire" wrote: >On Mon, 30 Oct 1995 14:05:22 +0100, stefan@pink.allcon.com wrote: >> I want to set up a UUPC connection with TCP/IP using a SLIP-network. >> >> This works fine, except login on uucp-port. I always got the >> error-messages like these: >> >> === >> Write: >> Read: login: >> Write: LOGIN >> >> Read: login: Password: >> Write: PASSWORD >> >> OOOOOO OOOOOO >> Trace complete at Mon Oct 30 14:03:39 1995 >> === >> >> My systems-file looks like this: >> allcon Any tcpip 16800 haegar.allcon.net get "" "" ogin:--ogin: LOGIN\m\n >> ssword :--ssword: PASSWORD\m >> >> The login-sequence should be: >> >> login: LOGIN >> Password: PASSWORD >> >> What is wrong with my systems-file ? I think the chat-script is wrong, but >> how do I have to change it ? > >Verify it works with a terminal emulator first. You may need to just >blast the info at it: > > ogin: LOGIN\rPASSWORD This seems to work better, but still no news: === Read: login: Write: LOGIN PASSWORD Read: Password:Shere=news Write: LOGIN2 Read: RYou are unknown to me Write: OOOOOO OOOOOO Trace complete at Mon Nov 6 12:12:10 1995 === There's a second LOGIN (named LOGIN2 here), which is my SLIP-Login-ID on this host. I don't no, where this comes from. But maybe, this will help, to solve the problem ? -- Stefan * stefan@pink.allcon.com * http://w3.allcon.net/os2/usergroup/ * Flensburg * ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 08:23:08 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Problem with latest version of uupc To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:09:26 GMT-6, cipav@mafalda.univalle.edu.co wrote: > NB: Please always use reply to facilitate local delivery > NOTA: Por favor siempre use 'reply' para facilitar despacho local > > Has anyone noticed that when sending to addresses with multi percents > in the address such as 'thomas%preston%hue@...' the first '%' is > dropped from the file containing the 'rmail' information (its > OK in the to line of the message. No, I hadn't. Why are you writing mail with syntax like is my first question, and does it happen if you use the native UUPC/extended mail program? -- 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 birds are singing, the flowers are budding, and it is time for Miss Manners to tell young lovers to stop necking in public. It's not that Miss Manners is immune to romance. Miss Manners has been known to squeeze a gentleman's arm while being helped over a curb, and, in her wild youth, even to press a dainty slipper against a foot or two under the dinner table. Miss Manners also believes that the sight of people strolling hand in hand or arm in arm or arm in hand dresses up a city considerably more than the more familiar sight of people shaking umbrellas at one another. What Miss Manners objects to is the kind of activity that frightens the horses on the street ..." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 20:08:21 -0500 From: ahd@kew.com Subject: UUPC-Info-Request Digest 1995 #39 To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 30 Oct 1995 18:21:02 -0700, wieringa@xroads.com wrote: > [reply from Germany] > >I'm currently developing a GUI-Mailreader to work directly with the > >UUPC mailbox file and rmail. I don't know when I'll be able to release a > >first Beta. It depends on the amount of time, I can spare for this job. > >I'm writing the program (it's called uumail BTW) in VB with some stuff in > >VC++, so I hope there will be a Release for Win32 and Win31 as soon > >as I get Visual Basic 4.0. > > ... > > [reply from Spain] > >We have develope a Windows 3.1 front-end for Mail based on uupc. We have = > >used Visual=20 > >Basic 3.0 with some DLL=B4s in C++. It allows to send/receive attached fi= > >les with=20 > >uuencode protocol. It has been tested on Windows-95 and it seems to run=20 > >smoothly (even faster). All the programs are compiled under W.31 > > > >Just now we=B4ve got a beta-version that is MIME-compliant and includes U= > >SENET=20 > >newsreader. > > Good grief! I've been looking for a replacement for CMM for a long time, > but there never were any alternatives (that I could find, or was told > about). ...so I started writing my own [too]. While I can't support such packages directly, I could maintain a mailing list for such front-end hackers. Is there a need for this? I would NOT moderate such a list, I would only boot off the bogus chain letters from Internet junk mailers ... -ahd- -- Internet: ahd@kew.com Voice: 617-641-3739 "Then I heard that long whistle whine . . ." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 20:13:55 -0500 From: ahd@kew.com Subject: uupc 12o and core dumps To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sat, 4 Nov 95 13:46:43 -0700, ken@kgwcal.cuug.ab.ca wrote: > Drew: > > As you informed me, uupc12o (OS/2 32bit) core dumps, (in I > believe rnews). I replaced the bad exe's with a prior version, > which unfortunately is the one that erases major chunks of the > active file. This has the effect of requiring me to erase all > news and reset the active file every couple of days. > > In the interim, until 12p arrives, is there some version that I > could use that eliminates both problems? Or is 12p available > (even without the doc's?) Docs are done, I think. If you have a compiler, the newsrun is a one line fix. otherwise, yell at me Tuesday if I have not started uploads 1.12p. -- Internet: ahd@kew.com Voice: 617-641-3739 "Then I heard that long whistle whine . . ." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 07:54:27 -0500 From: Software@kew.com Subject: uupc 12o and core dumps To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sun, 5 Nov 95 23:13:11 -0700, "Ken Wiens" wrote: > Drew Derbyshire proclaims > > > > On Sat, 4 Nov 95 13:46:43 -0700, ken@kgwcal.cuug.ab.ca wrote: > > > Drew: > > > > > > As you informed me, uupc12o (OS/2 32bit) core dumps, (in I > > > > Docs are done, I think. If you have a compiler, the newsrun is a one > > line fix. otherwise, yell at me Tuesday if I have not started uploads > > 1.12p. > > Yes I have a compiler - what's the fix (just in case the upload > isn't done on Tuesday) - however, don't waste time sending me > the fix if it distracts you from getting 12p out!! Where should > I look first on Tuesday? I usually look at Clarkson This note has taken me ~ 1 minute to prep, I gota catch up on mail anyway. Clarkson is the place to look. The fix is to return NULL to caller in active.C's findGroup if "current" is NULL when the loop exits. The RCS diff patch between 1.12o and 1.12p is ... *** active.C 1995/09/04 02:13:41 1.21 --- active.C 1995/09/24 19:10:36 *************** *** 15,24 **** /*--------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* ! * $Id: active.C 1.21 1995/09/04 02:13:41 ahd v1-12o $ * * Revision history: ! * $Log: active.C $ * Revision 1.21 1995/09/04 02:13:41 ahd * Move news group tree to FAR memory in 16 bit systems * --- 15,27 ---- /*--------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* ! * $Id: active.c 1.22 1995/09/24 19:10:36 ahd v1-12p $ * * Revision history: ! * $Log: active.c $ ! * Revision 1.22 1995/09/24 19:10:36 ahd ! * Correct debugging output ! * * Revision 1.21 1995/09/04 02:13:41 ahd * Move news group tree to FAR memory in 16 bit systems * *************** *** 38,50 **** #include "uupcmoah.h" #include - - #ifdef __TURBOC__ - #include - #include - #else #include - #endif #include "active.h" --- 41,47 ---- *************** *** 459,466 **** #ifdef UDEBUG parents++; ! printmsg(8,"Comparing \"%s\" == \"%s\" for %d", fullName, group, length); --- 456,465 ---- #ifdef UDEBUG parents++; + #endif ! #ifdef UDEBUG2 ! printmsg(12,"Comparing \"%s\" == \"%s\" for %d", fullName, group, length); *************** *** 477,487 **** { level = (char *) group + length; ! #ifdef UDEBUG #ifdef BIT32ENV ! printmsg(7,"Making level %s under %s next to %s", #else ! printmsg(7,"Making level %fs under %s next to %fs", #endif level, current->parent->name, --- 476,486 ---- { level = (char *) group + length; ! #ifdef UDEBUG2 #ifdef BIT32ENV ! printmsg(17,"Making level %s under %s next to %s", #else ! printmsg(17,"Making level %fs under %s next to %fs", #endif level, current->parent->name, *************** *** 691,696 **** --- 690,703 ---- } } /* while ( name != NULL ) */ + + if ( current == NULL ) + { + #ifdef UDEBUG + printmsg(6,"findGroup: Did not find group %s", group ); + #endif + return NULL; + } /*--------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* We have the node, return it if valid, other report failure */ -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 The less you bother me the sooner you'll get results ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 08:13:37 -0500 From: Software@kew.com Subject: Windows 95 and UUPC/extended To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 26 Sep 1995 13:16:33 -0700, jato.jpl.nasa.gov!plyman!plyman.spacesoft.com!lyman@pioneer.ci.net wrote: > Don't forget the only other nag I have about the NT version on Win95... > > --------------------------------------------------- > "c:\uupc\tmp\uupc50d9.txt" 2 lines, 9 characters <======== I just like vi > > Abort, Continue, Edit, List, or Send? Send > Cc: s > --------------------------------------------------- > typing an "s" after Send? gets a "Send" after Send?, and a "s" after Cc: I installed Windows 95 over the weekend. Ummm, yup, it does that (want to input the 's') twice. There appears to be a bug in the Windows NT run time library function getch(), since the same physical module compiled on this system beahviors differently under NT than 95. I may not get it changed for 1.12p, because I tried three different fixes last night and none of them both took the character in once and didn't require the user to hit enter. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 "Maybe Computer Science should be in the College of Theology." - R. S. Barton ------------------------------ End of UUPC-Info-Request Digest ******************************