Date: Wed, 8 Nov 95 21:08:24 EST From: Snuffles@kew.com Subject: UUPC-Info-Request Digest 1995 #43 To: uupc-info-digest@kew.com Message-ID: Reply-To: UUPC-Info-Request@kew.com UUPC-Info-Request Digest Wed, 8 Nov 95 Volume 1995: Issue 43 Today's Topics: 1.12p changes since 1.12b current index for kewgate 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, 08 Nov 1995 09:42:09 -0500 From: Software@kew.com Subject: 1.12p To: UUPC/Extended mailing list UUPC/extended 1.12p has been loaded to kewgate, and is partially loaded to ftp.clarkson.edu. I expect it to be fully loaded to the latter location by noon eastern time. This include new documents (all formats, including ASCII and PostScript), and executables for all platforms. Three notes: The UUPCDLL.DLL used by NNS did not build. You should be able to use the one from 1.12n until we can build it. The documents are at the gallary proof stage, and will be further updated. We're still pretty proud of them. The sample files have not been updated. I need to do a complete review of them. A full summary of changes since 1.12b, the last time we had complete docs, follow. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 Q. What machine does Windows NT run best on? A. A 35 mm slide projector. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 09:54:18 -0500 From: Software@kew.com Subject: changes since 1.12b To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Appendix_5:_Changes_From_Previous_Versions Introduction This section summarizes most changes made to UUPC/extended since release 1.12b. Please contact Drew Derbyshire, help@kew.com, for information on changes previous to the scope of this document or other questions. Version 1.12p Revision Summary Bug Fixes The manual was reorganized, with the configuration files broken out into their own section and most of the missing files added. Also added an appendix with a brief overview on uucp file transfer protocols. If no known path delivery path was known for a host (and use of the default mail server was explicitly barred via the HOSTPATH file), when RMAIL reported the error it reported the host in error as the local host. The message is cor- rected to report the actual problem host. If a negative sequence number for UUCP spool files was gen- erated, the resulting generated UNIX format file name could incorrectly have spaces in it. Corrected this by only using an unsigned long integer for the UUCP sequence number. If an in-memory temporary file actually residing on disk is used in a for redirected command input (such as bounced mail), the use of the file fails. Corrected by closing the file before reopening it for input. The address parser debugging messages would report an ad- dress as "local" if the address did not include a host name, which confused users on site hiding hosts. Changed the message to more precisely report that no host is included in the name. RMAIL would not properly handle bouncing of mail if the originator address started with a dash (-) because it would be taken as an option. Modified RMAIL to use "--" option to prevent address from being taken as an option. Because RMAIL has trouble with addresses being with dashes (-), UUXQT would delete any address destined for RMAIL if it began with a dash. Modified UUXQT to gracefully handle such addresses gracefully by terminating option processing with double dashes (--). UUXQT would not properly invoke RMAIL for all addresses if it was passed more than one DOS command line full of data. Corrected processing to execute RMAIL for all addresses provided. In NEWSRUN, if the search for a news group in the active file fails, under certain conditions the search will cause the program to terminate with a memory violation. The history file processor did not use the same buffer size under DOS as opposed to various 32 bit environments. This could cause history record truncation of records during processing. Corrected to use standard size buffers across all platforms. On multiple disk systems, UUCLEAN under DOS may not find the news directory if it is on a different drive than the UUPC.RC configuration file. Modified UUCLEAN under DOS to look for history file as a signal to run expire as opposed to active file. When using the UUCICO NIST support, if an attempt was made to set the clock before 2 AM GMT during daylight savings times at least 48 days before the change back to standard time, daylight savings would be ignored and the clock would be set one hour slow. When debugging, it was difficult to determine the UNIX file name of a file in the spool directory. RMAIL has modified to include various file identifying information in the exe- cute file. Version 1.12o Revision Summary Enhancements The new Boolean option suppressLoginInfo is added to allow disabling the display of the system version and login time during remote system login. The previously unimplemented Boolean option undelete now works under OS/2. When noundelete is set or defaulted, files are deleted by ALL UUPC/extended programs using a faster file delete call which bypasses the OS/2 Undelete Cache. Bug fixes The ACTIVE file processing used by NEWSRUN, EXPIRE, and other news programs could not handle large ACTIVE files well, relying on a simple linked list structure. The prog- ress has been rewritten to use a tree mimicking the natural structure of the Usenet news hierarchy. As usual, Kai Uwe Rommel contributed many of the news re- lated fixes to this release. When no news server was defined in the UUPC.RC file and no SYS file existed, an invalid SYS file was generated. The automatic generation of the SYS file was corrected to use the mail server as the default news server as well. The unused Boolean option compressbatch is dropped. When no parameter are passed to a program from UUXQT or other programs, a bug in the IBM OS/2 C/Set++ compiler will generate invalid parameters to the program. A workaround has been applied to various programs to always pass at least a debug level to various programs such as RNEWS, INEWS, and SENDBATS. The code added to 1.12n to determine the starting sequence number would sometimes generate a negative sequence number for jobs. Corrected to always limit the sequence number between one and one million. Various programs tended to have stack overflows under the MS C DOS 8.0 compiler, especially when various common routines called memory intensive C library functions such as sprintf. Various common routines were revised to use more efficient formatting, and in addition various DOS modules were changed from .COM files to .EXE files to allow additional memory usage. Previously, if an entire subdomain (denoted with an asterisk prefix) was listed in the HOSTPATH file to be routed to a gateway program, the subdomain entry was passed to gateway program by RMAIL. RMAIL is corrected to pass the actual host name being gatewayed to the program. If RMAIL processed a forward file with no aliases, it would exit with a non-zero return code but no error message. It now bounces the mail properly with a message reporting no addresses could be delivered to, and then exits with status zero. When writing entries into the V-Mail server queue, RMAIL searched the directory for a free file name, which because of a race condition could result in a file name collision. RMAIL is modified to use normal sequencing instead for more reliable and faster operation. If an entry in the system aliases file was immediately pre- ceded by a comment line, the comment was processed as part of the alias. System alias processing is corrected to com- pletely ignore the comment. Under Windows NT, changes to the internal configuration table would cause REGSETUP to fail because of references to NULL pointers. If UUPOLL was running with auto-UUXQT (-U) mode where UUCICO normally runs UUXQT in background, UUXQT was never run for the local host. This in turn caused news command which would locally queued to never run. UUPOLL is modified to automatically run UUXQT for the local host when in auto-UUXQT mode. When a call grade was specified in the time field of the SYSTEMS file and UUCICO was invoked to call any system with work ("-s any"), UUCICO might try to call a system it has no work to send to. The NIST clock setting code failed to work properly with the MS C DOS 8.0 compiler, and generally smelled bad. Restruc- tured the code to break apart system dependent and independent parts, corrected system dependent code, also revised messages to make the action taken clear. In some cases, various programs either overreported or un- dereported problems with deleting files. Modified affected programs to exactly report failed deletions of files. If a group was removed from the ACTIVE file by a rmgroup command, all groups after that group were deleted as well. Corrected ACTIVE file processing routines to not truncate ACTIVE file list. A space in a message id would cause severe problems with the history file database. Modified history file processing to properly handle such ill-formatted fields. When RNEWS is processing news from a pipe, it failed to properly process the data. RNEWS is modified to (more) gracefully handle such input. Maximum hop processing news caused infinite loops in NEWS- RUN. Corrected this error and moved the check maximum hops to inside the SYS file processor where it belonged. Other Changes Correcting of various compiler warnings continued. Versions 1.12j Through 1.12n Revision Summary Enhancements All program beeps can now be suppressed via the new Boolean option suppressbeep. (This strange little hack prevents crashes in DOS boxes on an OS/2 system near and dear to Snuffles's heart, not to mention her tail.) Specifying a new default grade for mail is now supported via the configuration variable mailGrade, and defaults to class 'C'. UUCICO file transfers are now processed on a per-grade ba- sis. All files of a specified class and above are sent first, then all any lower grade files, one class at time. The initial cut-off point (above which all files are sent into random order) is class 'C', and is configurable via the configuration file variable firstGrade. Mike McLagan contributed new code to handle news distribu- tion. News distribution is now automatically handled by a C news style SYS file. If no SYS file exists and one is needed, a default configuration is automatically generated. In support of news the other following changes were also made: 1) Remote batched news is now handled by the new program SENDBATS. This program must be run by hand or via the UUPOLL -B option. 2) If the local site was previously configured to accept news and send copies to other sites using the UUPCSHADOWS environment variable, entries for these systems are also automatically added to the generated SYS file. This is true even if snews processing is enabled. 3) RNEWS has been broken into two programs, RNEWS and NEWS- RUN. NEWSRUN is either executed directly by RNEWS and INEWS if the Boolean option fastnews is set, otherwise queued to run under UUXQT by an RNEWS generated UUX com- mand. (Note fastnews was broken in 1.12n, and was fixed in 1.12o) 4) A maximum news batch size can be configured via the vari- able BatchSize, the default for which is 64 kilobytes. 5) A new default grade send news at is configured via the variable newsGrade, and defaults to class 'n'. 6) The program used to compress new can be specified via the variable compress, and defaults to the program 'compress %s' 7) History file processing is now always enabled; the Boo- lean option history is dropped. Users first using 1.12n with news should run the GENHIST program to insure the history file is up to date. 8) By default, UUXQT no longer aborts if RNEWS fails. The previous behavior can be restored via the new Boolean op- tion newsPanic. 9) The undocumented Boolean option uupcnewsserv is dropped. 10)Archiving old news is no longer supported, and the Ar- chive variable is dropped. 11)Active file processing no longer bothers to validate whether or not directories exist. 12)In addition to C news SYS file processing, support is added for Jeff Coffler's Network News System (NNS) for Windows NT. Processing for NNS is enabled by the new Boolean option nns. 13)Existing snews support is also modified to behave com- patibility with SYS file mode processing. If snews processing is enabled and a news SYS file exists, normal SYS directed processing takes place in addition snews processing. 14)Kai Uwe Rommel wrote a caching function to speed news history processing. 15)The OS/2 PNEWS script has been modified to support prompting for distribution and providing default re- sponses to prompts. Note: Both snews and nns modes can be enabled at the same time. This makes for really weird results and a full hard disk if you don't actually have NNS and snews running. Note: If NNS processing is enabled and a news SYS file exists, normal SYS directed processing takes place in addition to NNS processing. Note: Version 2.05 of NNS is required to exploit UUPC/extended. The programs MAIL, NEWSRUN, and RMAIL have all been modified to allow using memory buffering for work files rather than disk based files when possible if the new Boolean option imfile is set. All program use a common API which automati- cally falls back to disk based work files when imfile is not set and/or when data size exceeds a pre-defined limit. A 64K limit is used in 16 bit environments, and one megabyte limit is used for 32 environments. If one more or user ids do not have a password, the password prompt for these user ids can be suppressed via the new Boolean option suppressemptypassword suppressemptypass- word''. Configuration file processing is now optimized to limit parsing of variables to those actually needed. This trades speed for some parameters not being checked until the pro- grams that need them being run. The current time zone can again be set in the configuration file via the variable TZ. Note: While the time zone is set using the syntax EST5EDT, it always prints as a simple hour and mi- nute offset. Dave Watt contributed REGSETUP, to allow inserting UUPC/extended environment and configuration information into the NT registry. Kai Uwe Rommel ported FROMWHO, a program to quickly display mailbox contents. The job number sequence file (\uupc\seq) is changed from an ASCII file to a binary file and renamed (to \uupc\spool\seq.dat). Use of the file is optimized to use a single open to read and update the file. The secondary host routing table (\uupc\hostpath), is now only loaded when needed by the mail router functions. Pre- viously, it was loaded whenever the main host table (\uupc\systems) was loaded. Mail alias processing is now modified so that system aliases will be gracefully processed recursively, allowing a mail alias in the system alias file (\uupc\aliases) to directly refer to other aliases in the system file or itself, which case it is resolved as a local address. UUPOLL is modified to support the UUCICO auto-UUXQT flag (- U). When an external shell is invoked by UUCICO, the current debuglevel can be passed to the external shell via the %x substitution string. When generating a dummy job via the poll (-P) option, UUSTAT now supports specifying the job grade via the grade option (-g). Bug fixes Miles Zarathustra extensively tested and tuned the Windows serial communications interface, making it more robust. In addition, Drew Derbyshire added application level buffering and line pacing to allow additional data to be queued for a remote system. Under DOS using the native (internal) serial port driver, UUCICO would corrupt memory when exiting. Corrected in COMM.ASM to load correct register. Note: This change was the primary difference between versions 1.12i and the more widely distributed 1.12j. UUCICO acted unpredictably if given a login script which ended in an expect string. Script processing was modified to properly support this. UUSTAT failed to report if it was unable to delete a file as part of kill processing. The program has been modified to check for such errors and report them. If transmitting more than 26 files in one job, the UUCP command used non- alphanumeric characters in the work file names. Modified UUCP command to use 0-9, then A-Z, and then a-z for intermediate file names. The default packet size for 'G' and 'v' protocols was 1024 bytes, which is large enough to easily overload many sys- tems. The default was reduced to 512 bytes per packet, although the larger value can still be explicitly specified in the modem file. The invalid characters percent sign (%) and exclamation point (!) are now rejected in the domain name. Host name lookup processing is modified to report in the case of failure the calling routine and not the internally called common lookup routine. OS/2 editors and pagers are now invoked via the system() call, which allows use of PM based editors without going through hoops. As a result, support of the Boolean options neweditorwindow neweditorwindow'' and newpagerwindow new- pagerwindoware dropped. Directory processing, especially the expansion and normali- zation of directory paths, has been optimized. This corrects severe performance problems with the Windows NT versions of various programs, which were punished by slow system calls to examine the file system. Attempts to determine file system types and whether they supported long file names was incomplete under OS/2. Now under OS/2, long file name (HPFS) support on a drive is now determined by actually trying to open a file with a long name rather than asking for the name of the file system. Under OS/2 and the 32 bit C/Set++ compiler, the time was not properly set by the NIST during daylight savings time. Modified to add in the required offset. An extra Windows NT console was being created when running synchronous programs. The NT specific support code is cor- rected to avoid this. Selected debugging messages have been wrapped into condi- tionally compiled code to make the shipped modules smaller. Under Windows NT, directory search debugging messages no longer insert blank lines into the log. The mail address parser is modified to detect and handle an invalid (empty) host name being passed in, returning ques- tion marks (?) rather than a NULL pointer which will crash the program. If no address information was provided for a entry in nick- name file, the nickname is now ignored. Previously, this could crash MAIL. If quote characters, including double quotes (") and/or angle brackets (<>) were unbalanced on an entry in the nick- name file, the resulting processing was unpredictable and usually undesired. This condition is now explicitly trapped and the offending entry ignored. The queuing of mail for remote hosts has been rewritten so that the call file is written only once, not multiple time as was possible previously if multiple addresses were queued for the same address. This prevents possible errors with UUCICO prematurely sending the file and also improves per- formance. Various programs which did not write the user (U) line of the execute (X.*) file first had problems communicating remote systems running the brain damaged MKS toolkit. The programs have been modified to generate the user line first. If RMAIL had a problem before fully initialized (such as an invalid or missing parameter), the message would not be logged. This has been corrected by opening the log file before parsing options. The DOS and Windows/NT batch file version of UUCLEAN would loop if neither TMP nor TEMP were in the environment. Modi- fied the batch files to use a reasonable default. The UUPOLL status in the OS/2 task list and Windows NT title bar would be obsolete during sleep periods. UUPOLL now updates the message more often. UUCICO execution duration would vary up to 59 seconds from the desired time relative to UUPOLL. Modified UUPOLL and UUCICO to more exactly handle when a passive poll termi- nates, allowing an active poll to start at a more consistent time.81 Rapid suspends and resumes of ports under OS/2 could cause UUCICO to hang. Corrected by Kai Uwe Rommel by the addition of suitable delays. The UUCP 't' protocol support was just plain wrong, and would not inter-operate with any non-UUPC/extended UUCICO. Corrected to use the correct protocol. Note: This makes the UUCICO 't' protocol incompatible with versions of UUPC/extended previous to 1.12m. A workaround for these old systems is to use 'e' protocol, which is compatible (and correct). The UUCP 'e' protocol failed to report when a time out oc- curred, causing UUCICO to hang if a remote connection was lost. Both the UUCP 't' and 'e' protocol modules failed to report when various time-out errors occurred, leaving it up to the user to guess. Both modules have been to report time-outs, and in addition the TCP/IP protocol module has been modified to report if an end of file condition arises. If for a TCP/IP connection, the port number was appended to the host name in the systems file, it was not converted properly into binary. Corrected in ulibip.c. Other changes The Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 compiler for Windows NT is now supported. The Microsoft Visual C++ 1.5 (DOS 8.0) for DOS is now sup- ported. The License has been rewritten and included with each ar- chive. Numerous compiler warnings for various compilers have been suppressed. Versions 1.12h through 1.12i Revision Summary Enhancements Added support for the OS/2 IBM C Set++ 2.01 compiler. This was based on work from Kai Uwe Rommel. Added Ignore= variable to allow configuring headers ignored by Print command in mail. Added ReplytoList= variable to allow configuration address replied to from the Reply command in mail. Added HonorControl Boolean option to determine where or not addgroup and rmgroup news control messages are honored. The OS/2 version of the WAITING command now prints the mail- boxes with waiting mail in user id order. If a remote error correcting modem connects to a UUPC/extended system without an EC modem, the login prompt could be presented before the remote system was ready for it. The AnswerDelay= variable has been added to allow a configurable delay in how long the answering UUCICO waits before sending the login prompt, with a default of 2 sec- onds. Bug Fixes Modified change directory functions to properly update saved directory if any and only change directory works. Corrected various functions to RMAIL to insure redirection of input works properly for nested invocations of programs. Revised memory allocation of host name table and associated information to reduce storage fragmentation in memory con- strained (16 bit) versions. Revised memory allocation in MAIL to allow processing large mailboxes (greater than ~ 250 items) under DOS by freeing constrained NEAR memory. Control characters are now stripped out of OS/2 generated messages so they appear on one line. If the public directory for a host is overridden by the Permission file, the directory is now correctly expanded in other directory references for that host in the Permissions. Modified ExtractAddress() to correctly parse multiple ad- dresses from the same input line as required. Leading and trailing spaces are now stripped from addresses in alias and forwarding files. When attempting to access devices (i.e. the printer port) to save files on, MAIL no longer appends the default suffix. RMAIL was unable to generically parse RFC-822 headers. The parsing of headers is now revised to handle any valid input. RNEWS failed to properly assign article numbers for dupli- cate articles when using a history file. Corrected by Kai Uwe Rommel. The database functions used by RNEWS and EXPIRE failed to report the nature of various operating systems errors (such as missing files). Corrected by addition of new messages and additional checks for error returns from function calls. The GETUUPC.CMD, used under OS/2 to perform configuration file lookups, had trouble locating path names under selected conditions. Corrected. The buffer allocated by the communications suite handler for communications I/O was sometimes smaller than the default system I/O buffer size (BUFSIZ) on 32 bit systems. Updated to insure at least BUFSIZ bytes are allocated. The updates of the system status file was overly aggressive, and collisions would impact performance if two copies of UUCICO were dialing out at the same system. The status file is now only updated when connecting or exiting UUCICO. The system status file was renamed and backed up every time it was updated. This was redundant since the file is now locked using the UUCICO lock manager; the backup is now omitted. The 'g' protocol handler in UUCICO was allocating an unused local buffer which could consume up to 1K in extra memory. The allocation is deleted, and an additional buffer is also moved to FAR memory to release constrained NEAR memory under DOS and 16 bit OS/2. Some UUCP systems (including Taylor v1.04) only send 7 char- acters of their host name when answering a call, and UUPC/extended required 8 if it knows the system by 8 charac- ters or longer. Corrected to only compare 7 characters if that is all is that presented. An anonymous host attempting to send a file would cause UUCICO to abort the connection. Modified UUCICO to reject the file gracefully without dropping the connection. The NIST clock setting routine could be easy confused by garbage input from the remote system, and set the time off by several hours. Modified nbstime() to require an exact match of all expected characters before setting the clock. nbstime() failed to properly report the number of seconds the clock was adjusted. Corrected to report the delta, and to also report when the system believed it was perfectly in sync with the time server when it set the clock. Numerous internal changes have been made to the building of UUPC/extended from source. By default, pre-compiled headers are used for the IBM C Set++ compiler and Borland C++, all supported compilers except Borland C++ use the same rewrit- ten NMAKE.MAK file, a full list of dependent headers is generated and included to insure files are correctly recom- piled after a header file update, etc. The reported serial port speeds in messages under OS/2 with 32 bit compilers was humorous, if dead wrong. Corrected to report the boring but correct speeds. The OS/2 serial port handler, which includes support to attempt to fill its internal receive buffer when one charac- ter is read at speeds over 2400 bps. Unfortunately, it was attempting to fill the buffer if one character was read OR the speed was over 2400 bps. Corrected processing to the logical AND intended. UUPORT did not return the documented return codes. Cor- rected by Kai Uwe Rommel. UUSTAT suffered from a memory leak and other inefficiencies which caused it to run out of memory under DOS. Deleted various unneeded debugging code, and corrected status func- tion to free unneeded memory. Versions 1.12c through 1.12g Revision Summary Bug Fixes Under DOS with the Borland C++ 3.1 compiler, UUXQT would randomly abort or cause RMAIL to abort if too many files were processed in one pass. This was finally traced to prob- lems with C run time library function putenv(), and the problem call deleted. Richard Gumpertz made numerous changes to allow clean compilation under MS C 7.0. Richard Gumpertz modified the internal DOS communications driver (COMM.ASM) to better support 8250 based serial ports, to handle RTS flow control (to prevent the modem from over- running the serial port), and to allow non-standard IRQ/port assignments at compile time. (This latter support is not enabled in the shipped executables.) Richard Gumpertz converted the ArtiComm specific INT 14 communications driver into a generic INT 14 driver and cor- rected various bugs within it. Both OS/2 and Windows NT communications drivers were modi- fied to attempt to read and buffer as many input characters as possible to reduce the number of calls to the operating system communications functions, improving through-put. If a 'g'/'G'/'v' protocol connection encountered a time-out condition, it tended not to be reflected for double the user specified time-out condition. Corrected to use the true time-out. The communications suites which use internal buffers were changed to use a common buffer in FAR memory which is allo- cated and released as needed by the communication suite selection functions. This allows a bigger buffer to used without multiple copies being required by individual suites. Kai Uwe Rommel and Drew Derbyshire converted arpadate() to use actual time zone offsets rather than time zone names. This is necessary to allow proper display of time zones outside North America. The OS/2 version of MAIL could not start a PM editor or pager in version 1.12b. Added Boolean options neweditorwin- dow and newpagerwindow to allow starting a new editor window or new pager window under OS/2 to handle PM based editors and/or pagers. If a environment prefixed configuration file variable (i.e. OS2.foo) was invalid, the environment name was reported, not the actual keyword. Corrected to report both parts of the name. Under Windows, file direction didn't work properly for out- put files. Corrected by Richard Gumpertz. expand_path() did not always save current directory prop- erly. Corrected by Richard Gumpertz. Conversion for the Kanji character set did not work properly under Borland C++ because of differences between error re- turns in the MS C and BC++ run time libraries. Corrected by using generic error check. If the temporary directory was a root directory, double slashes were inserted into the name. Corrected by checking for multiple slashes and deleting them in mktempname(). Under Windows NT, abort of communications processing in UUCICO was not graceful. Corrected by Dave Watt. The Windows NT file mapping routines could not determine if remote volumes accepted long names. Corrected by Dave Watt. Programs which saved and restored the current directory when changing directories did not work if the new directory was changed to a different drive. Corrected by Richard Gum- pertz. If remote file access was granted to an entire drive through the permissions file, access was denied to the drive because the directory searched for did not match the actual saved path in the security tables. Corrected. The Windows 3.x version of UUPOLL would crash the first time UUCICO exited. Corrected via new function declarations by Paul Steckler. In MAIL, issuing the header or Header commands to display the summary of the items in the mailbox often caused the last header description to be displayed twice. Corrected. In MAIL, trying to save mail to the parent directory using .. notation was rejected because the first period was taken to be the current item in the mailbox. Corrected. In MAIL, entering a mail command within the program with a subject but no addresses caused the program to crash. Cor- rected mail sending functions to verify at least one address exists. RMAIL incorrectly attempted to initialize the current date string before the time zone information had been initial- ized. Corrected by Kai Uwe Rommel. UUCICO printed dialing and connection speeds for network oriented protocols which in truth have no speeds associated with them. New messages were added for these suites. Reordered 't' protocol packet processing to correct problems encountered when running over named pipes. Modified file buffering into the common UUCICO packet proc- essing to correct nasty OS/2 32 bit performance hits because of unbuffered files. Adding missing winsock.h to distribution source. Virtually every error message in the OS/2 serial port driver reported the routine name for OS/2 API errors as DosDe- vIOCtl. Revised messages to reflect the sub-function of this routine being invoked to make error reporting more unique. The OS/2 and Windows NT serial port drivers have been modi- fied to save and restore modem settings to their original state when the port is closed. On non-FAT file systems, different subdirectories were cre- ated in the spool directory for use by UUXQT under DOS and the native OS/2 or Windows NT UUXQT. Corrected so all gen- erated names use a system name of no longer than eight characters. RMAIL makes use a new configuration variable MaximumUUXQT, to determine the longest line which can be written in a command line to a remote system. The old hard coded value and new default is 512 bytes. If neither environment information nor a UUCP From line with "remote from" was passed to RMAIL, the program would gener- ate an invalid new UUCP From line. Corrected by examining the From line more diligently in ParseFrom(). In 16 bit OS/2, UUCICO would report an out of memory condi- tion in dcpxfer(). Corrected by reducing default transfer buffer size which had implicitly risen from increased packet sizes. UUCICO would incorrect attempt to suspend processing on network devices before calling them. Corrected by checking for network port before calling suspend function. Carrier detect logic for OS/2 and Windows NT both incor- rectly checked the actual modem status bits. Corrected in ulibos2.c and ulibnt.c. UUX wrote the wrong file name in the execute file when queu- ing data from standard input to be executed on the local system. Corrected in UUX.C. Enhancements and Other Hacks UUCICO was modified to check the access of all file trans- fers outside the spool directory, not just remote initiated transfers. This is more secure and compatible with the UNIX UUCICO processing. Note: The UUCP command -C option causes the input file to be copied to the spool directory and trans- ferred from the spool. This option should be used to transfer a file from the local system residing in a directory UUCICO is not granted read access to. RMAIL will now directly queue mail for Vandenburg Systems Research's v-mail automated list processor. Other packages can also process this queue in a simpler fashion than di- rectly looking in the UUPC/extended spool queue. UUCICO now has the ability to pass various connection to child processes invoked via the shell parameter of the PASSWD file. The following parameters are substituted as follows: %% Insert a single percent sign (%) %l Communications port handle (OS/2 and Windows NT only) %p Base name of modem file in use. %p Communications port name %u Logged in user name %w Logged in user name (alias compatible with UUCICO command line flags) %s Communications port speed Default maximum buffer size for 'g'/'G'/'v' protocol packets was raised to 1024 bytes from 512 bytes. RMAIL now accepts the -g option to set the grade of outbound mail. Renamed Aliases keyword in UUPC.RC file to Nickname to bet- ter reflect the use of the file as compared to the system aliases file. Added Permissions keyword to UUPC.RC file allow renaming the Permissions file. Restored ability to display files destined for spool direc- tories during transfer, as was the default in releases previous to 1.11y. The display of such transfers is enabled by the new Boolean option showspool. Richard Gumpertz modified UUX and UUXQT to work properly together in the same fashion as UNIX systems. NOTE THAT AS OF RELEASE 1.12e, NO SECURITY CHECKING IS DONE ON COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS TO PROGRAMS EXECUTED BY UUXQT. Modified user configuration processing to pick up the cur- rent user id from either the system environment variables LOGNAME (used by RCS under variable environments) or USER- NAME (created automatically under Windows NT). If UUPCUSRRC is not set, this user id is then used to locate the [userid].RC file. Kai Uwe Rommel made numerous enhancements to news process- ing, especially centering on new history support (prevent duplicate posts) and writing a back end for posting (INEWS). Drew Derbyshire then added backwards compatibility in EXPIRE for installations which do not have the Boolean option his- tory set. Kai Uwe Rommel ported the UUTRAF utility to summarize the connections as recorded in the SYSLOG file. Note: To use UUTRAF, you must have the Boolean option syslog set. Note: This required minor changes to the SYSLOG file output format. Added new Boolean options shortfrom and suppressfrom to alter generation of the UUCP From line within RMAIL. When RMAIL queues mail for a single address, the Received: line now contains a field specifying the address. RMAIL now makes additional efforts to determine where mail is from using the environment data set up by UUXQT if incom- ing mail is lacking a UUCP From line. Also, mail for which the source cannot be determined is labeled as coming from somewhere!unknown rather than the local host /dev/null. Kai Uwe Rommel ported the OS/2 version to IBM C Set/2. Dave Watt ported the automatic port suspension code from OS/2 to Windows NT. Dave Watt wrote an 'e' protocol module. The login script processor was enhanced to support the new escape sequences \E and \e to enable and disable waiting for each character sent during script processing to be echoed. This provides an alternative to CharDelay to prevent data overruns when dialing and logging into remote systems. UUSTAT has been modified to report both the number of call files queued for and the unprocessed execute files received from remote systems when the -q option is issued. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 Q. What machine does Windows NT run best on? A. A 35 mm slide projector. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 09:54:41 -0500 From: Software@kew.com Subject: current index for kewgate To: UUPC/Extended mailing list # *--------------------------------------------------------------------* # * The current release is now 1.12p. * # *--------------------------------------------------------------------* This index prologue for kewgate.kew.com's anonymous UUCP download and V-Mail server was last updated by Drew Derbyshire on the date shown below for INDEX. This file now is now the same for both servers; you need not retrieve one server index one way and the other index the other way. Send comments on it to help@kew.com. V-Mail notes: The address of the automated mail server is listserv@kew.com. Send an INDEX command command in the body of mail to get this list. You can also send it a HELP command. Please use direct anonymous UUCP download when possible in preference to the V-mail server for large files. Anonymous UUCP does not require UUENCODEing the file or using the resources of third party systems, and will get you the file faster. The V-mail server is self limiting to sending out about 300K an hour to avoid overloading our UUCP mail feed; please be patient when ordering large numbers of files, and do not order files you do not need. If you must use the V-mail server, and do not have UUDECODE, order UUDECODE.DBG, save it to a file without the mail headers, and run debug < uudecode.dbg This will create a rudimentary DOS UUDECODE program that you can use to decode other files, including more sophisticated versions of UUDECODE. Once you do this, you can order UUEXE521.ZIP, which is the UUDECODE we use at the Wonderworks. Feel free to use the V-mail server for retrieving the various text files and this index. Retrieve HOWTOGET.TXT for instructions on anonymous UUCP download; to get it, send the following in the body of a note to the Listserv@kew.com: get howtoget.txt The files below can be retrieved via their simple file names using a "GET filename" command in the body of the mail; the path names need not be included in the commands to the V-mail Server. You can now order files by platform package name from the listserv: get uupcdos.pkg get uupcos2.pkg get uupcwin.pkg get uupcwnt.pkg Each command will retrieve the all the executables and the document archive. You can also get the source via one command: get uupcsrc.pkg Anonymous UUCP notes: The kewgate anonymous UUCP server is normally available 24 hours a day, 7 days week; the modems are Supra V.FC (28000 bps) and Zoom Telephonics VFX (BPS 14400). We reserve the right to restrict the hours of the server to weekdays during the day and post-midnight any day. Also, kewgate is sometimes not available early evenings (East Coast time) and weekend afternoons due to testing. The telephone number for anonymous UUCP download is 617-279-9816. Use userid nuucp, password nuucp. The root directory of the UUPC/extended files (shown below) is ~nuucp. Please restrict your downloads to what you actually need. For example, do not download both OS/2 versions, skip the source files if you do not need them, and pass on the executables for systems you do not have such as OS/2 or Windows NT. PLEASE DON'T DOWNLOAD large numbers of files at 2400 bps. (Come on, v32bis modems are cheap!) Please DO NOT retrieve files from kewgate via UUCP with the 'f' protocol. This is not reliable under modem connections, and generally WILL NOT WORK. Use the 'v' protocol if possible, otherwise use the 'g' (or 'G') protocol with the largest packet size available (1024 max). Also, please do not tie up our limited dial-in lines trying to debug any problems with your set-up long distance. If you are using small packet 'g' protocol to retrieve files from kewgate, _disable_ data compression (MNP 5/v.42bis) for up to 25% better through put. Small packets cause the modem to wait for more data to compress before transmitting, and thus do not keep the modem busy enough to make compression worthwhile. You may also want to disable error correction (MNP 4/v.42) if you have a clean connection; this will further improve through put for generally the same reasons. You cannot send files or mail to Kendra Electronic Wonderworks using anonymous UUCP. Please report problems using the server by sending Internet e-mail to help@kew.com or by calling 617-279-9812 between 8 AM and 10 PM Eastern Time. (Please send e-mail if possible.) Files should be retrieved with their path prefix, which is ~nuucp/ for the root directory. Use this in preference to the path name listed below (as of this writing e:\uupc\public\uupc) in case we need to move the directory. FTP notes: The canonical anonymous FTP archive for UUPC/extended on the Internet is ftp.clarkson.edu, directory pub/uupc. Anonymous FTP is not supported directly from kew.com. General notes: You need PKUNZIP 2.04 or Info-ZIP UNZIP 5.0 to unzip the archive files from kewgate. The last documented release of UUPC/extended is now 1.12p, and includes new sample files, and has new documents. Retrieve UPC112PAD.ZIP and read the HOWTOGET.TXT for information on the new names for the archives and other information. The anonymous Kermit server is not available because while UUCICO can now (in releases 1.12f and above) interface to OS/2 C-Kermit, the C-Kermit never times out if the C-Kermit is hung up on while in server mode. When Columbia University corrects this, we hope to restore the anonymous Kermit server to its historical glory on kewgate. The volume label in drive C is PANDORA DOS. The Volume Serial Number is 1456:15FE. Directory of C:\UUPC\PUBLIC\UUPC INDEX 5618 11-08-95 8:55a TEXT BAK 702 11-08-95 7:34a TEXT LST 720 11-08-95 7:35a 00README NOW 6731 11-07-95 11:33p HOWTOGET TXT 13262 11-07-95 10:55p LICENSE TXT 10007 11-07-95 10:59p REGISTER TXT 10859 11-07-95 11:18p UPC12P11 ZIP 230984 11-08-95 12:56a UPC12P12 ZIP 246319 11-08-95 1:02a UPC12P13 ZIP 246670 11-08-95 1:12a UPC12P21 ZIP 385974 11-07-95 11:47p UPC12P22 ZIP 158639 11-07-95 11:50p UPC12P23 ZIP 160865 11-07-95 11:52p UPC12PAD ZIP 472189 11-07-95 11:34p UPC12PAP ZIP 362761 11-07-95 11:52p UPC12PAW ZIP 219528 11-07-95 11:53p UPC12PD1 ZIP 232508 11-08-95 7:55a UPC12PD2 ZIP 229558 11-08-95 7:56a UPC12PD3 ZIP 241607 11-08-95 7:59a UPC12PN1 ZIP 330557 11-08-95 8:56a UPC12PN2 ZIP 416196 11-08-95 8:58a UPC12PN3 ZIP 359912 11-08-95 9:04a UPC12PS1 ZIP 234822 11-07-95 11:53p UPC12PS2 ZIP 231535 11-07-95 11:53p UPC12PS3 ZIP 136896 11-07-95 11:53p UPC12PS4 ZIP 172161 11-07-95 11:53p UPC12PW1 ZIP 72975 11-08-95 6:47a UPC12PW2 ZIP 146774 11-08-95 6:51a 28 file(s) 5337329 bytes used Directory of C:\UUPC\PUBLIC\UUPC\DIGEST 1995-001 TXT 16901 2-19-95 3:02p 1995-002 TXT 27125 2-19-95 3:02p 1995-003 TXT 28543 2-19-95 3:01p 1995-004 TXT 20641 2-26-95 9:52a 1995-005 TXT 30402 2-26-95 5:12p 1995-006 TXT 38549 3-05-95 12:54p 1995-007 TXT 21712 3-08-95 9:46p 1995-008 TXT 13705 3-12-95 7:52p 1995-009 TXT 9320 3-19-95 11:25a 1995-010 TXT 7530 4-03-95 7:17a 1995-011 TXT 16368 4-15-95 8:59p 1995-012 TXT 19203 4-15-95 9:01p 1995-013 TXT 23845 4-23-95 9:06p 1995-014 TXT 16821 5-04-95 9:26p 1995-015 TXT 33583 5-07-95 3:26p 1995-016 TXT 20901 5-15-95 9:27p 1995-017 TXT 15310 5-21-95 12:30p 1995-018 TXT 22935 6-07-95 9:21p 1995-020 TXT 20468 6-21-95 8:28p 1995-021 TXT 15372 6-29-95 9:46p 1995-022 TXT 22463 7-09-95 10:33p 1995-023 TXT 34118 7-16-95 3:44p 1995-024 TXT 33631 9-05-95 7:01p 1995-025 TXT 22513 7-23-95 8:37p 1995-026 TXT 19137 7-31-95 6:29a 1995-027 TXT 29460 8-09-95 6:22p 1995-028 TXT 28604 8-20-95 9:54a 1995-029 TXT 16817 8-26-95 11:28p 1995-030 TXT 19998 9-04-95 6:45p 1995-031 TXT 25204 9-06-95 11:45p 1995-032 TXT 28888 9-10-95 12:27p 1995-033 TXT 18872 9-18-95 8:49p 1995-034 TXT 16288 9-25-95 8:58p 1995-035 TXT 15975 9-27-95 10:58p 1995-036 TXT 16252 10-03-95 10:47p 1995-037 TXT 14630 10-15-95 4:26p 1995-039 TXT 20757 10-29-95 10:33p 1995-040 TXT 14552 11-05-95 8:14p 1995-041 TXT 22422 11-06-95 8:39a 39 file(s) 839815 bytes used Directory of C:\UUPC\PUBLIC\UUPC\PACKAGES UUPCDOS PKG 580 12-31-93 12:00p UUPCOS2 PKG 747 12-31-93 12:02p UUPCSRC PKG 494 1-01-94 10:49a UUPCWIN PKG 643 12-31-93 12:00p UUPCWNT PKG 594 12-31-93 12:02p 5 file(s) 3058 bytes used Directory of C:\UUPC\PUBLIC\UUPC\PROTOCOL HANRAHAN PAP 51198 1-23-93 2:48p 1 file(s) 51198 bytes used Directory of C:\UUPC\PUBLIC\UUPC\TOOLS UUDECODE DBG 4223 3-05-94 3:31p UNZ50P1 EXE 40062 4-18-93 12:36a BNU170 ZIP 74398 5-27-93 9:53p OCOM_531 ZIP 17148 5-27-93 7:57p RNR127 ZIP 219507 4-02-95 11:51a UUEXE521 ZIP 33438 6-01-93 12:19a VMS220 ZIP 355966 6-01-93 8:29p WNBFF31 ZIP 91342 11-07-95 7:33p 8 file(s) 836084 bytes used Directory of C:\UUPC\PUBLIC\UUPC\1.12K UPC12BAD ZIP 324805 10-04-93 4:15p UPC12BAP ZIP 318983 10-04-93 4:16p UPC12BAW ZIP 140653 10-04-93 4:15p UPC12K11 ZIP 222824 12-08-94 11:38p UPC12K12 ZIP 235531 12-08-94 11:40p UPC12K13 ZIP 173326 12-08-94 11:42p UPC12K21 ZIP 371646 12-08-94 11:02p UPC12K22 ZIP 151571 12-08-94 11:05p UPC12K23 ZIP 107492 12-08-94 11:07p UPC12KD1 ZIP 197964 12-11-94 6:08p UPC12KD2 ZIP 244506 12-11-94 6:08p UPC12KD3 ZIP 168133 12-11-94 6:09p UPC12KN1 ZIP 279427 12-10-94 12:28a UPC12KN2 ZIP 332254 12-10-94 12:32a UPC12KN3 ZIP 230874 12-10-94 12:35a UPC12KS1 ZIP 209510 12-09-94 7:13a UPC12KS2 ZIP 208365 12-09-94 7:14a UPC12KS3 ZIP 127027 12-09-94 7:14a UPC12KS4 ZIP 119821 12-09-94 7:14a UPC12KW1 ZIP 70424 12-11-94 6:09p UPC12KW2 ZIP 142653 12-11-94 6:09p 21 file(s) 4377789 bytes used Total files listed: 102 file(s) 11445273 bytes used 36208640 bytes free -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 Q. What machine does Windows NT run best on? A. A 35 mm slide projector. ------------------------------ End of UUPC-Info-Request Digest ******************************