Date: Wed, 29 Nov 95 09:06:34 PST From: Snuffles@kew.com Subject: UUPC-Info-Request Digest 1995 #47 To: uupc-info-digest@kew.com Message-ID: Reply-To: UUPC-Info-Request@kew.com UUPC-Info-Request Digest Wed, 29 Nov 95 Volume 1995: Issue 47 Today's Topics: Access rights with uupc 1.12p (2 msgs) Advanced uucp, help needed BCC to multiple recipients (2 msgs) compiling uucico uupc extended 12p/n for OS/2 32Bit? (3 msgs) controlmessages and 1.12p ignoring additional mail headers NEWSRUN bug 1.12o (2 msgs) Q on forwarding UUPC shelling to OS2YOU? Where has the news gone? 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. Note: Questions on UUPC/extended itself which are not of general interest should be sent to help@kew.com, not to the mailing list. Nor questions should be posted on Usenet, we don't read it. (Much.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 00:26:08 +0100 From: JAN@tfk.SE Subject: Access rights with uupc 1.12p To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Help needed... I have just installed UUPC1.12p on our system (previously running 1.12k) partly to get the "bounce" functionality to work correctly. All relevant files are located on a Novell server. We are running Pegasus mail which runs rmail -t -Fx for outgoing mail. When mailing to an unknown local address the mail is routed to the postmaster but it doesn't bounce back to me! I seem to have a NetWare RIGHTS problem when writing to RMAIL.LOG - But that's not true, because the first four lines (below) from the rmail screen output are found in RMAIL.LOG! -------- Rmail screen output -------- RMAIL: UUPC/extended 1.12p (DOS mode, 8Nov95 07:29) Bounce: Mail from NN for BADUSER failed, Invalid local address (not defined in PA SSWD or ALIASES): BADUSER RMAIL: UUPC/extended 1.12p (DOS mode, 8Nov95 07:29) o:\uupc\spool\RMAIL.log: Permission denied Cannot open any log file! RMAIL aborting at line 209 in file lib\logger.c [..Delivering mail from NN to postmaster..This works fine] -------------------------------------- Another question: What's wrong with me or UUNAME? Here's the output whenever I try to get some info on obsolete options etc in the .rc files (breaks at any debug level over 4): -------------------------------------- x:\UUNAME -x8 UUNAME: UUPC/extended 1.12p (DOS mode, 8Nov95 07:41) Inserting environment variable NN as NAME=NN Inserting environment variable C:\temp as TEMPDIR=C:\temp Normalize: cwd = ?, input = C:\temp, output = C:/temp Inserting environment variable C:\temp as TEMPDIR=C:\temp Normalize: cwd = ?, input = C:\temp, output = C:/temp Inserting environment variable GMT-1 as TZ=GMT-1 Normalize: cwd = ?, input = O:\UUPC\UUPC.RC, output = O:/UUPC/UUPC.RC Normalize: cwd = ?, input = O:/UUPC, output = O:/UUPC run-time error R6000 - stack overflow -------------------------------------- I hope someone has a solution/hint for us.... Thanks/ Jan E -- TFK - Transport Research Institute Jan Edholm Box 126 67 Phone: +46-8-652 6910 S-112 93 Stockholm Fax: +46-8-652 5498 SWEDEN Internet: jan@tfk.se ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:23:52 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Access rights with uupc 1.12p To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 28 Nov 1995 00:26:08 +0100, JAN@tfk.SE wrote: > I have just installed UUPC1.12p on our system (previously running 1.12k) > partly to get the "bounce" functionality to work correctly. All relevant > files are located on a Novell server. > > We are running Pegasus mail which runs rmail -t -Fx for outgoing mail. > > When mailing to an unknown local address the mail is routed to the > postmaster but it doesn't bounce back to me! I seem to have a NetWare > RIGHTS problem when writing to RMAIL.LOG - But that's not true, because > the first four lines (below) from the rmail screen output are found in > RMAIL.LOG! I suspect you failed to enable options=multitask. > -------- Rmail screen output -------- > RMAIL: UUPC/extended 1.12p (DOS mode, 8Nov95 07:29) > Bounce: Mail from NN for BADUSER failed, Invalid local address > (not defined in PA SSWD or ALIASES): BADUSER > RMAIL: UUPC/extended 1.12p (DOS mode, 8Nov95 07:29) > o:\uupc\spool\RMAIL.log: Permission denied > Cannot open any log file! > RMAIL aborting at line 209 in file lib\logger.c > [..Delivering mail from NN to postmaster..This works fine] > -------------------------------------- > > > Another question: What's wrong with me or UUNAME? > Here's the output whenever I try to get some info on obsolete > options etc in the .rc files (breaks at any debug level over 4): > > -------------------------------------- > x:\UUNAME -x8 > > UUNAME: UUPC/extended 1.12p (DOS mode, 8Nov95 07:41) > Inserting environment variable NN as NAME=NN > Inserting environment variable C:\temp as TEMPDIR=C:\temp > Normalize: cwd = ?, input = C:\temp, output = C:/temp > Inserting environment variable C:\temp as TEMPDIR=C:\temp > Normalize: cwd = ?, input = C:\temp, output = C:/temp > Inserting environment variable GMT-1 as TZ=GMT-1 > Normalize: cwd = ?, input = O:\UUPC\UUPC.RC, output = O:/UUPC/UUPC.RC > Normalize: cwd = ?, input = O:/UUPC, output = O:/UUPC > > run-time error R6000 > - stack overflow I suspect I need to make it an EXE file for the next release, that is to say, not your problem. -- 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. Plastic explosives will be appropriate later in the week. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 05:43:04 -0400 (AST) From: colmarr@conicit.ve Subject: Advanced uucp, help needed To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I am boxing with the setting up of a UUPC connection over tcp/ip to a provider on the Internet. I connect with my PPP package and then somehow never get any further. I would like to know if any others have tried this, and with any success. If so, how? I would also - if possible - like a copy (sample) of your SYSTEMS file and possible your TCPIP.MDM file as well. Plus any other hints, tips, tricks you can give me, of course. Lots of thanks in advance, waiting to hear from you, --Colmarr@dino.conicit.ve ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 10:00:20 -0800 From: synapse@bert.cybernw.COM Subject: BCC to multiple recipients To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Hello all, Several questions (regarding the DOS version of UUPC): (1) In Mail, is there a way to put in a To:, CC: or BCC: line a large number of recipients? As I read it now, one can only fit as many names as fit in the DOS command line. (2) Any suggestions on how to programmatically get mail in and out of UUPC? I can program in C (prefer not), VB, or QuickBasic on the DOS/Windows side. There's a section in the manual that talks about the Hostpath routing but I'm clueless about what the whole "victim canonical-name" thing means. Perhaps it's my non-UNIX background and unfamiliarity with domains, UUCP, etc. Essentially, if I could build a routine in one of my VB or QB programs that does a call to a subroutine which reads or writes mail for eventual routing to the outside world, that would be great. Right now, I'm going to kludge a routine that Shells to DOS and then keyboard fakes the execution of Mail -s Subject "Recipient Name" and then ~r to pull in the message text from a file. But, this is tremendously ugly. I must be missing something essential on the possibilities here. (3) Does anyone know where I can get details on the e-mail structure standard? I think it was something like RFC-822 (?) which defines headers, mail address info, etc. Is that on-line anywhere? Thanks again for the continued assistance from the UUPC community! William Ifrah +------------------------+----------------------------------+ | William Ifrah | William.Ifrah@SynapseSystems.COM | | Synapse Systems | | | 2138 NW Irving St. #2C | Voice: 503-295-5597 | | Portland, OR 97210 | Fax: 295-3098 | +------------------------+----------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:22:16 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: BCC to multiple recipients To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 28 Nov 1995 10:00:20 -0800, synapse@bert.cybernw.COM wrote: > Several questions (regarding the DOS version of UUPC): > > (1) In Mail, is there a way to put in a To:, CC: or BCC: line a large > number of recipients? As I read it now, one can only fit as many > names as fit in the DOS command line. groups of Nicknames, in the nickname.txt file, or aliases. > (2) Any suggestions on how to programmatically get mail in and out of > UUPC? I can program in C (prefer not), VB, or QuickBasic on the > DOS/Windows side. There's a section in the manual that talks about > the Hostpath routing but I'm clueless about what the whole > > "victim canonical-name" > > thing means. Perhaps it's my non-UNIX background and unfamiliarity > with domains, UUCP, etc. Look at the examples and try a piping mail into a program. You want the hostpath section with gateway programs. That's for getting mail FROM RMAIL into another program. > Essentially, if I could build a routine in one of my VB or QB > programs that does a call to a subroutine which reads or writes > mail for eventual routing to the outside world, that would be great. > > Right now, I'm going to kludge a routine that Shells to DOS and then > keyboard fakes the execution of Mail -s Subject "Recipient Name" and > then ~r to pull in the message text from a file. > > But, this is tremendously ugly. I must be missing something > essential on the possibilities here. Look at the -f, -F, and -w options on RMAIL to read in a file. Also basic command line redirection into RMAIL or MAIL. > (3) Does anyone know where I can get details on the e-mail structure > standard? I think it was something like RFC-822 (?) which defines > headers, mail address info, etc. > > Is that on-line anywhere? Many places. ftp.psi.com (or ftp.psi.net?) for one. -- 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. Plastic explosives will be appropriate later in the week. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:04:01 -0500 From: Software@kew.com Subject: compiling uucico uupc extended 12p/n for OS/2 32Bit? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list This was originally posted to Usenet. Please note that we DO NOT support UUPC/extended on Usenet due to the high signal/noise ratio. Questions should be sent directly to us at help@kew.com. os2-l@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) writes: > >Has anyone succeeded at compiling the above with 12p. The make file > >distributed won't do anything. In what way? > >12n will compile, but is missing. I handcrafted a > >replacement since it seems to be a mapping of winsock error constants > >with an offset of WSAERROR. There is no such header in the UUPC/extended directories. I suspect you are actually missing an OS/2 TCP/IP header called nerrno.h. (See below.) > >Now I am missing a bunch of other stuff. My system has TCPIP and the > >development stuff for it too. However, the files mentioned below are > >missing. I suspect the distribution is incomplete. The UUPC/extended distribution is complete to the best of my knowledge. Your TCP/IP install is bad. See my list below. > >uucico\ulibip.c(114:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. > >uucico\ulibip.c(115:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. > >uucico\ulibip.c(117:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. > >H:\APPS\COMM\TCPIP2.1\INCLUDE\netdb.h(60:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. Note for example this error, where the TCP/IP include file can't find . > >H:\APPS\COMM\TCPIP2.1\INCLUDE\netdb.h(73:19) : error EDC0007: "struct in_addr" is undefined. > >uucico\ulibip.c(119:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. > >uucico\ulibip.c(120:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. Installed from devcon 4 with the latest service downloaded from software.watson.ibm.com, the TCP/IP include directory looks like this on Warp Connect: F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\FTPAPI.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NERRNO.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NETDB.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RESOLV.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\TYPES.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\UTILS.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\ARPA\NAMESER.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\DPI\SNMP_DPI.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NET\IF.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NET\IF_ARP.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NET\ROUTE.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NETINET\IF_ETHER.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NETINET\IN.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NETINET\IN_SYSTM.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NETINET\IP.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NETINET\IP_ICMP.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\AUTH.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\AUTH_UNI.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\CLNT.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\PMAP_CLN.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\PMAP_PRO.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\RPC.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\RPCNETDB.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\RPCTYPES.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\RPC_MSG.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\SVC.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\SVC_AUTH.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\XDR.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\SYS\IOCTL.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\SYS\SELECT.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\SYS\SOCKET.H F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\SYS\TIME.H Virtually all the missing headers are part of TCP/IP 2.x. I suggest you reinstall the developers kit and any associated service. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9712 Remember, sometimes the dragon wins ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 95 0:42:22 -0500 From: os2-l@mistik.express.NET Subject: compiling uucico uupc extended 12p/n for OS/2 32Bit? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list > os2-l@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) writes: > > >Has anyone succeeded at compiling the above with 12p. The make file > > >distributed won't do anything. > > In what way? "It won't do anything is pretty clear." What is a makefile suposed to do? Make objects, executables? It does none of those. It starts and ends with no action. > > > >12n will compile, but is missing. I handcrafted a > > >replacement since it seems to be a mapping of winsock error constants > > >with an offset of WSAERROR. > > There is no such header in the UUPC/extended directories. I suspect you > are actually missing an OS/2 TCP/IP header called nerrno.h. (See > below.) nerrno.h, that is correct. However, it is not to be found on any of the tcpip directories, as well as visualage directories. Note that I am using the tcp/ip product, not warp. This is the real product, not beta versions from DEVCON CDs. Whether or not the installation is complete, I have to check. I dount that anything is missing, the dlls, programming guides etc are all there. I suppose you developed based on the beta version off the DEVCON CD. > > > >Now I am missing a bunch of other stuff. My system has TCPIP and the > > >development stuff for it too. However, the files mentioned below are > > >missing. I suspect the distribution is incomplete. > > The UUPC/extended distribution is complete to the best of my knowledge. > Your TCP/IP install is bad. See my list below. I will double check. However, please note that your version is not the product. > > > >uucico\ulibip.c(114:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. > > >uucico\ulibip.c(115:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. > > >uucico\ulibip.c(117:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. > > >H:\APPS\COMM\TCPIP2.1\INCLUDE\netdb.h(60:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. > > Note for example this error, where the TCP/IP include file can't find > . > > > >H:\APPS\COMM\TCPIP2.1\INCLUDE\netdb.h(73:19) : error EDC0007: "struct in_addr" is undefined. > > >uucico\ulibip.c(119:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. > > >uucico\ulibip.c(120:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. > > Installed from devcon 4 with the latest service downloaded from > software.watson.ibm.com, the TCP/IP include directory looks like this on > Warp Connect: > > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\FTPAPI.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NERRNO.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NETDB.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RESOLV.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\TYPES.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\UTILS.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\ARPA\NAMESER.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\DPI\SNMP_DPI.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NET\IF.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NET\IF_ARP.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NET\ROUTE.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NETINET\IF_ETHER.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NETINET\IN.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NETINET\IN_SYSTM.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NETINET\IP.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\NETINET\IP_ICMP.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\AUTH.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\AUTH_UNI.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\CLNT.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\PMAP_CLN.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\PMAP_PRO.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\RPC.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\RPCNETDB.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\RPCTYPES.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\RPC_MSG.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\SVC.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\SVC_AUTH.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\RPC\XDR.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\SYS\IOCTL.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\SYS\SELECT.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\SYS\SOCKET.H > F:\MPTN\INCLUDE\SYS\TIME.H > > Virtually all the missing headers are part of TCP/IP 2.x. I suggest you > reinstall the developers kit and any associated service. Thank you, will check into it. > > -ahd- > -- > Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com > Telephone: 617-279-9712 > > Remember, sometimes the dragon wins Note that I am banned from this list due to my critisizm on lack of support of uupc extended. Therefore, any replies to the list won't reach me. Either post it on usenet, or send it by e-mail to me. PS: If you had not cc'ed it to the list, I would have not replied to the list. If I sense that it is not distributed on the list, I will post it on usenet. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mustafa Soysal (313) 741-1844 Voice TeamOS/2 MISTIK Systems (313) 741-1937 Fax Author of UnTieCom(tm) PO Box 7064 Authorised ZyXEL Reseller Ann Arbor, MI 48107-7064, USA os2-l@mistik.express.net finger info -> mistik@conch.aa.msen.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:18:54 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: compiling uucico uupc extended 12p/n for OS/2 32Bit? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Wed, 29 Nov 95 0:42:22 -0500, os2-l@mistik.express.NET wrote: > I will double check. However, please note that your version is not the > product. > > > > > > >uucico\ulibip.c(114:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. > > > >uucico\ulibip.c(115:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. > > > >uucico\ulibip.c(117:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. > > > >H:\APPS\COMM\TCPIP2.1\INCLUDE\netdb.h(60:10) : error EDC0296: #include file not found. > > > > Note for example this error, where the TCP/IP include file can't find > > . Again, this clearly shows that your own TCP/IP files such as expect such headers as to exist, and they don't. Since Therefore your TCP/IP installation is _internally_ incocnsistent, and it's not a UUPC/extended or devcon beta problem. -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. Plastic explosives will be appropriate later in the week. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Nov 95 9:16:22 +0100 From: ms@kiss.franken.DE Subject: controlmessages and 1.12p To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Hello, please excuse my englisch :-)) Today I installed UUPC 1.12p for OS/2 32bit executables. I found 2 Problems: 1. execution of control messages failed, I found the following in my newsrun.log: (1) Control Message: cancel <47u2c1$apo@marina.lake.de> (0) Control message <47u2c1$apo@marina.lake.de> missing operand, ignored (2) Saving control article in d:/News/control/287 [...] (1) Control Message: newgroup de.comp.sys.ibm-pc unmoderated (1) control message unknown: de.comp.sys.ibm-pc (2) Saving control article in d:/News/control/305 In uupcmstr.prn I found very little information about control messages. Until yesterday I used 1.12j and all control messages where processed as say should. 2. My machine name kiss is not registered, so the pathline in articles I post from my machine should look like: Path: kiss.franken.de!ms correct??? But 1.12p writes only: Path: kiss!ms I have read in uupcmstr.prn all paragraphs containing: path, inews, newsrun, domain, nodename and so on. I can't find a switch. All other things in 1.12p are just great. I have a second machine connected to kiss with TCP/IP 2.0 and I can feed this machine with Mail and News. So everything seems to be OK. I can get and deliver Mail and News. Only this to little Problems. The only workaround I find for Problem 2 is to edit the files in \uupc\spool\wuff\d\ and correct the pathline. But that is very boaring. Thanks for all the help I will find in my mailbox in the next Days :-))) -- Tschau, Michael ms@kiss.franken.de Michael Schulte * Foehrenstr. 7 * 97688 Bad Kissingen VOICE: 0971-78069 * FAX: 0971-78068 * D2: 0172-6678567 WWW: http://www.franken.de/users/kiss/ms/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 07:48:36 -0500 From: XHelp@kew.com Subject: ignoring additional mail headers To: UUPC/Extended mailing list > I need to know where to use the Ignore= command so that I can use it to > strip out unwanted header lines. Where do I put this command (in what > file, UUPC.RC??) and how many words can I put after the = sign. I want > to strip multiple lines (Content-, Received:, X-Mailer:) I need an > example. A sample ignore line, note how the string with a blank is a quoted: This must be all on one line, this is originally 193 columns! ignore=Comment: Content-transfer-encoding: Errors-to: "From " Lines: Message-ID: Originator: Path: Precedence: Received: References: Reply-to: Sender: Status: Version: X-Archive-Key: X-Mailer: We need to document this properly ... -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9712 "Thou shalt not dump beta software on unsuspecting users" - Snuffles P. Bear ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 17:04:17 -0500 From: Software@kew.com Subject: NEWSRUN bug 1.12o To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 27 Nov 1995 06:38:17 -0800, "Bob Dodd" wrote: > Apologies. The following dialog indicates that I had tested the "p" > release. I hadn't. I had to revert to the "n" RNEWS as I'm getting > stack overflows with the 'p' code. It appears (guess in progress) that > the changes in ACTIVE file handling in RNEWS.COM have used more RAM in > the single 64kb segment allocated, as the spawn of COMPRESS blows up > with "p", but not with "n" (R6000 - Stack Overflow). This is with the > build from Clarkson. No, rnews doesn't load the active file, it can't, since I allocate memory outside the 64K stack for active file entries. Funny, I thought I had made that a .EXE file again anyway. You should be able to move back to the 1.12n rnews and use the 1.12p newsrun. > (The original problem with NEWSRUN remains.) > > :>> In processing a reasonably large news feed, we've encountered > :>>problems again and again with general protection faults when the > :>>history.dir file exceeds 64k. > :>> > :>> That 64k number sounds suspiciously like a problem caused when > :>> converting from a .com (everything in one 64k segment) to a .exe > :>> program (multiple segments). A two-byte pointer that was valid in a > :>>com program might require a double-word in an exe. I've now built a large history file and I'm going to be testing it. I've already found one problem (the bad news group fix to 1.12o for 1.12p was incomplete), and I also need to fix the limit of simple news group names being 18 bytes. I also am looking at the truncation of the active file. It sounds like entire trees are being lopped off. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9712 "I am working ... where most people have never even heard of fax, and internet is something to take fishing." - Tony Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 23:13:24 -0500 From: Software@kew.com Subject: NEWSRUN bug 1.12o To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:27:35 -1200, "Stephen Worthington" wrote: > On Mon, 27 Nov 1995 17:04:17 -0500, Software@kew.com wrote: > > I've already found one problem (the bad news group fix to 1.12o for > > 1.12p was incomplete), and I also need to fix the limit of simple news > > group names being 18 bytes. > ^^^^^^^^ I think this is the one that is hitting > about one newsbatch of mine every couple of days with a SYS3175. Is > the fix going to be soon, or should I look at getting the source code > myself and trying a patch? Any ideas where to look in the source? The 18 byte limit is defined in a constant at the top of active.c. I suspect it's the bad news group search which is toasting you. A fix will be on kewgate for testing for OS/2 _only_ (a true beta test) this week. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9712 Remember, sometimes the dragon wins ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 13:45:29 -0500 From: XHelp@kew.com Subject: Q on forwarding To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sun, 22 Oct 95 22:30:50 +0200, "Dmitry Solodov" wrote: > It looks like there is sharing violation when the file is opened by > execute.c. Maybe rmail.exe creates and not closes the file ? Yes, upgrade to 1.12p, or better yet, enable the Boolean option imfile _and_ upgrade to 1.12p. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9712 Backups? We don't *NEED* no steenking baX%^~,VbKx General Failure on Drive D: Abort, Retry, Fail? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 12:49:47 -0500 From: Software@kew.com Subject: UUPC shelling to OS2YOU? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sat, 25 Nov 95 19:54:04 +0000, "John Poltorak" wrote: > A number of comms programs are now supporting this hot handle feature which > is excellent for sharing a comms port between different software. > Unfortunately this concept has not got through to anyone at IBM... :-(. > It would be nice to be able to start a SLIP or PPP connection too. If I opened the port shared (which is scary for the obvious reason) I could get PPP to work, perhaps. I don't know it if is worth while or not. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9712 Backups? We don't *NEED* no steenking baX%^~,VbKx General Failure on Drive D: Abort, Retry, Fail? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 09:22:01 -0500 From: Software@kew.com Subject: Where has the news gone? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Fri, 24 Nov 1995 23:49:27 +0000, "Ashley Drees" wrote: > >I suspect it DID send the the other parts, but fell behind and took a > >while to send it. I deleted the bogus part 4. > > Follows the transcript of server status message. seems part 1 was not > in uupcwnt.pkg discription file.. You're right, this has been corrected. My apologies to all. > Can you supply details about the > Vmail program that you are using? I presume that supplies listserv > type funtionality? I'm ccing this to the author Rick Vandenburg. You can also send mail to vms@vansys.com (I think) for more information. (Start with a HELP command). > >I need to create a part 4 with UUPCDLL.DLL, but full reinstalls of the > >OSes over weekend sidetracked me. > > I'll continue with the earlier version DLL till it arrives. The NT uupcdll.dll is now on the listserv as 'uupcdll.dll'. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9712 In a puff of orange smoke, you magically receive this message. ------------------------------ End of UUPC-Info-Request Digest ******************************