Date: Thu, 12 Dec 96 18:46:05 PST From: Snuffles@kew.com Subject: UUPC-Info-Request Digest 1996 #33 To: uupc-info-digest@kew.com Message-ID: Reply-To: UUPC-Info-Request@kew.com UUPC-Info-Request Digest Thu, 12 Dec 96 Volume 1996: Issue 33 Today's Topics: Any Idea? can't create temp file (9 msgs) carcasses in spool\site\d (2 msgs) FOSSIL drivers and accurate port speeds How to change mailbox format? (2 msgs) Problem with expire in 1.12p TFS Delivery Failure: How not to run "newsrun"?? (2 msgs) To subscribe to UUPC-Info-Digest, send the command in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com: subscribe uupc-info-Digest To signoff from UUPC-Info-Digest, use "signoff" instead of "subscribe". You can also send an "index" to the listserv to get an index of back issues and other files available for retrieval. 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: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:57:21 CST From: reg@buster.stafford.tx.us Subject: Any Idea? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list ** Reply to note from uupcinfo@kew.com Sun, 08 Dec 1996 23:06:50 -0500 > > On Thu, 27 Jun 1996 02:38:49 +0800, error@wyvern.hk.linkage.net wrote: > > I am using USR 28800 v.34 Modem, the USRSPORT.MDM is not suitable > > for me to use the UUPC.... can you tell me where can I find > > the modem initialize file? My problem is that everytime I use > > uucico, it have error message "wanted "CONNECT" got "ATDTXXXXXX" > > wanted "OK" got .... " any idea? thx... > > Up your times outs for the dial. Mostly you need to tune your modem > file and send it to me ... I don't have a wide array of modems to test > with. > -- > Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com ----- This works for me. I just modified Roger's file. REG --cut-here----------8X--------- # *--------------------------------------------------------------------* # * U.S. Robotics Courier Modem file for UUPC/extended 1.11x * # * "Roger H. Goun" * # * Revised by Robert E. Gunn > | Post Office Box 27474 | Voice:+1 713 960 1588 reg@buster.stafford.tx.us | Houston, Texas 77227-7474 | Fax: +1 713 960 9497 Life has a lot of undocumented features. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:24:31 -0500 From: billjr@penny.com Subject: can't create temp file To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I transferred about a dozen files to a UUPC site from an SCO site yesterday. The last one of which was not successfully transferred. From the uucp log files. root site105 site105N1fb2 (12/9-21:03:40,3929,10) REQUEST (penny!/tmp/vamain.-2 --> site105!/fp/menus (root)) root site105 site105N1fb2 (12/9-21:03:42,3929,11) REQUEST (remote system can't c reate temp file) Is there a limit on the number of files that UUPC can receive at one time (&/or a limit on the number of temp files it can open). Or is the limit a DOS thing that I can fix in config.sys or somewhere? I seldom use DOS so any help is gratefully received. TIA, -- Bill McEachran Jr. Tel: (905) 686-5200 ext. 24 Penny Fuels Inc. Fax: (905) 686-5205 339 Westney Rd. South email: billjr@penny.com Ajax, ON L1S-7J6 -$- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:19:04 -0700 From: ghoti@lao-tse.lcrnet.org Subject: can't create temp file To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:24:31 -0500, apin!penny.com!billjr wrote: > I transferred about a dozen files to a UUPC site from an SCO site yesterday. > The last one of which was not successfully transferred. [snip] > Is there a limit on the number of files that UUPC can receive at one time > (&/or a limit on the number of temp files it can open). Or is the limit > a DOS thing that I can fix in config.sys or somewhere? I seldom use DOS so any > help is gratefully received. I'm not sure if there is or not, but during one session between a BSD box and my DOS box using UUPC 1.12p, I received approximately 200 files with no problems at all. Hope that helps a bit. -- I'm always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it. - Vincent van Gogh Email: ghoti@lao-tse.lcrnet.org WWW: http://www.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/~ghoti ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 20:59:23 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: can't create temp file To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:24:31 -0500, billjr@penny.com wrote: > I transferred about a dozen files to a UUPC site from an SCO site yesterday. > The last one of which was not successfully transferred. > > From the uucp log files. > > root site105 site105N1fb2 (12/9-21:03:40,3929,10) REQUEST (penny!/tmp/vamain.-2 > --> site105!/fp/menus (root)) > root site105 site105N1fb2 (12/9-21:03:42,3929,11) REQUEST (remote system can't c > reate temp file) > > Is there a limit on the number of files that UUPC can receive at one time > (&/or a limit on the number of temp files it can open). Or is the limit > a DOS thing that I can fix in config.sys or somewhere? I seldom use DOS so any > help is gratefully received. The limit is about 62. Temp files weren't problem, look at the actually UUPC/extended log. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 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. This .sig has been deleted by the BitPolice. Sorry! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 20:59:23 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: can't create temp file To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:24:31 -0500, billjr@penny.com wrote: > I transferred about a dozen files to a UUPC site from an SCO site yesterday. > The last one of which was not successfully transferred. > > From the uucp log files. > > root site105 site105N1fb2 (12/9-21:03:40,3929,10) REQUEST (penny!/tmp/vamain.-2 > --> site105!/fp/menus (root)) > root site105 site105N1fb2 (12/9-21:03:42,3929,11) REQUEST (remote system can't c > reate temp file) > > Is there a limit on the number of files that UUPC can receive at one time > (&/or a limit on the number of temp files it can open). Or is the limit > a DOS thing that I can fix in config.sys or somewhere? I seldom use DOS so any > help is gratefully received. The limit is about 62. Temp files weren't problem, look at the actually UUPC/extended log. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 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. This .sig has been deleted by the BitPolice. Sorry! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:30:51 +0100 From: koppel@iap.saske.sk Subject: can't create temp file To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Wed, 11 Dec 1996 20:59:23 -0500, uupcinfo@kew.com wrote: > On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:24:31 -0500, billjr@penny.com wrote: > > I transferred about a dozen files to a UUPC site from an SCO site yesterday. > > The last one of which was not successfully transferred. > > > > From the uucp log files. > > > > root site105 site105N1fb2 (12/9-21:03:40,3929,10) REQUEST (penny!/tmp/vamain.-2 > > --> site105!/fp/menus (root)) > > root site105 site105N1fb2 (12/9-21:03:42,3929,11) REQUEST (remote system can't c > > reate temp file) > > > > Is there a limit on the number of files that UUPC can receive at one time > > (&/or a limit on the number of temp files it can open). Or is the limit > > a DOS thing that I can fix in config.sys or somewhere? I seldom use DOS so any > > help is gratefully received. > > The limit is about 62. Temp files weren't problem, look at the > actually UUPC/extended log. > -- > Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com I think that there is no apparent limit for the number of files received for UUPC. Probably the problem is on the side of your server (the size of its spool directory?). Some our uucico.log: 11/25-06:15 UUCICO: UUPC/extended 1.12p (Nov 8 1995 07:29:54) 11/25-06:15 callup: Calling linux1 via ZYXEV32B at 38400 on Mon Nov 25 06:15:02 1996 11/25-06:15 iap connected to linux1: 38400 bps, v protocol, z grade 11/25-06:15 sbreak: Switch into slave mode 11/25-09:42 6 time outs, 0 port reinits, 16 out of seq pkts, 0 NAKs rec, 26 NAKs sent 11/25-09:42 0 invalid pkt types, 9 re-syncs, 0 bad pkt hdrs, 0 pkts resent 11/25-09:43 10 files sent, 822 files received, 11075 bytes sent, 24950046 bytes received 11/25-09:43 52505 packets transferred, 32 errors, connection time 207:23, 2006 bytes/second 12/03-12:11 UUCICO: UUPC/extended 1.12p (Nov 8 1995 07:29:54) 12/03-12:11 callup: Calling linux1 via ZYXEV32B at 38400 on Tue Dec 03 12:11:53 1996 12/03-12:12 iap connected to linux1: 38400 bps, v protocol, z grade 12/03-12:13 sbreak: Switch into slave mode 12/03-12:32 4 time outs, 0 port reinits, 0 out of seq pkts, 0 NAKs rec, 0 NAKs sent 12/03-12:32 0 invalid pkt types, 0 re-syncs, 0 bad pkt hdrs, 2 pkts resent 12/03-12:32 16 files sent, 1000 files received, 23236 bytes sent, 2361685 bytes received 12/03-12:32 9243 packets transferred, 2 errors, connection time 19:47, 2009 bytes/second Bye, bye -- Juraj Koppel e-mail: koppel@iap.saske.sk http://www.saske.sk/~koppel2/koppel.html Institute of Animal Physiology, Soltesovej 4, 040 00 Kosice, Slovakia tel/fax 42 95 762162 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 11:42:36 -0500 From: billjr@penny.com Subject: can't create temp file To: UUPC/Extended mailing list From: koppel@iap.saske.sk > I think that there is no apparent limit for the number of files > received for UUPC. Probably the problem is on the side of > your server (the size of its spool directory?). I'll take Drew's word for the 62 or so files though others have reported doing many more than this at one time. Our servers spool isn't the problem ... it's handling other locations without any problem. I've got to go out to this site for a look see. I'll let the list know the results. -- Bill McEachran Jr. Tel: (905) 686-5200 ext. 24 Penny Fuels Inc. Fax: (905) 686-5205 339 Westney Rd. South email: billjr@penny.com Ajax, ON L1S-7J6 -$- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 13:31:03 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: can't create temp file To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 11:42:36 -0500, billjr@penny.com wrote: > From: koppel@iap.saske.sk > > I think that there is no apparent limit for the number of files > > received for UUPC. Probably the problem is on the side of > > your server (the size of its spool directory?). > > I'll take Drew's word for the 62 or so files though others have reported > doing many more than this at one time. Just to clarify, the 62 file limit is for a single UUCP command using wildcard notation, because it generates files with a suffix 0-9, A-Z, and a-z. If you issue one UUCP command per file, the only limit is disk space. Note that for expliciy file name transfers (i.e. non-mail and non-news), the receiving spool is NOT used for a receiving file .. it goes straight to the final location. So the unable to create temp file may be the real file. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 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. ". . . Can you think of an easier way to get a shipment of contraband into the country than by hijacking a 747 with 400 people on board? I can, and so can the entire South American drug industry. But never mind . . . " - Roger Ebert (reviewing "Executive Decision") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 17:46:50 -0500 From: billjr@penny.com Subject: can't create temp file To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Kendra Electronic Wonderworks wrote: Just to clarify, the 62 file limit is for a single UUCP command using wildcard notation, because it generates files with a suffix 0-9, A-Z, and a-z. If you issue one UUCP command per file, the only limit is disk space. Note that for expliciy file name transfers (i.e. non-mail and non-news), the receiving spool is NOT used for a receiving file .. it goes straight to the final location. So the unable to create temp file may be the real file. Thanks for the clarification. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 17:44:25 -0500 From: billjr@penny.com Subject: can't create temp file To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Well I said I'd get back to the list after I visited the site to let you know the real problem. My Unix computer has complete UUPC read/write permissions on this target computer. I was transferring over a newer version of a file to overwrite the older version. As you'll recall the file and all files remaining in the queue for this site could not be sent. Turns out that the old version of the file had 'attrib +r' set. An 'attrib -r' solved the problem. I'm surprised that would hang up the entire session. I would have thought that the one file would have been skipped and the remaining files transferred -- that wasn't the case -- the session was halted upon encountering the permission/attrib problem. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 96 11:54:32 -0500 From: uupc@mistik.express.net Subject: carcasses in spool\site\d To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Greetings, Once in a while I am finding carcasses left over from the data portion of jobs queued for site. I suppose these are left over when the x-files were deleted by uucico for one reason or another. Is there any utility to requeue these files for the site again. (they are mostly rnews jobs). And since they are in compressed form, it is really hard to do anything with them manually. Best Regards, Mustafa Soysal -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mustafa Soysal MS57 uupc@mistik.express.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 20:58:00 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: carcasses in spool\site\d To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 10 Dec 96 11:54:32 -0500, uupc@mistik.express.net wrote: > Once in a while I am finding carcasses left over from the data portion > of jobs queued for site. I suppose these are left over when the x-files > were deleted by uucico for one reason or another. > > Is there any utility to requeue these files for the site again. (they > are mostly rnews jobs). And since they are in compressed form, it is > really hard to do anything with them manually. No, there is not. In general, spool cleanup is a little weak. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 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. This .sig has been deleted by the BitPolice. Sorry! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 17:08:52 -0500 From: Software@kew.com Subject: FOSSIL drivers and accurate port speeds To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Some asked recently about getting UUPC/extended to allow setting a speed above 38400 in the modem or systems file when using a FOSSIL driver such as X00. I just checked the documents included with the X00 archive, and the driver itself DOES NOT SUPPORT returning a value higher than 38400 to the FOSSIL interface. X00 does support high speeds, but they MUST be provided on the X00 command line. So it's a non-issue. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9712 Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 21:17:30 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: How to change mailbox format? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 09 Dec 1996 22:34:51 -0800, nfahmi@abdulla.pc.my wrote: > In article <32aaf5c7.kendra@pandora.kew.com>, uupcinfo@kew.com wrote: > >On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:05:33 -0800, nfahmi@abdulla.pc.my wrote: > >> How can I change my mailbox format to standard UNIX format. I tried putting > >> "options=nofromsep" to remove the "" separator line > >> but it doesn't seem to work. > > > >Step back one. Why do you need it in UNIX format? If moving to a true > >UNIX system, just grep -v when you get there ... > > > Actually I'm trying to use UUPC with Yarn. I can import rnews batches > with option=nns set but importing the mailbox (*.spb) creates problem > coz' Yarn's import program do not properly recognise the 20 ASCII1 > characters as the e-mail separator. According to its documentation, > it can import the mailbox if it is in standard UNIX mailbox format. You going to need a filter program (grep) on the PC or some such. ftp.cdrom.com should have one. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 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. "Fast ship? You mean you've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?" - Hans Solo ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 96 4:52:27 -0500 From: uupc@mistik.express.net Subject: How to change mailbox format? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list > > Actually I'm trying to use UUPC with Yarn. I can import rnews batches > > with option=nns set but importing the mailbox (*.spb) creates problem > > coz' Yarn's import program do not properly recognise the 20 ASCII1 > > characters as the e-mail separator. According to its documentation, > > it can import the mailbox if it is in standard UNIX mailbox format. > > You going to need a filter program (grep) on the PC or some such. > ftp.cdrom.com should have one. 'sed' might remove them for you if you can find out the right commnds. It is quite cryptic to me, but it can edit files and remove things etc. > -- > Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com > Telephone: 617-279-9812 > > 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. > > "Fast ship? You mean you've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?" - Hans Solo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mustafa Soysal MS57 uupc@mistik.express.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 18:04:16 +0000 From: cwinemil@keys.lonestar.org Subject: Problem with expire in 1.12p To: UUPC/Extended mailing list "Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended Support" writes: >On Sat, 09 Nov 1996 09:11:10 -0600, cwinemil@keys.lonestar.org wrote: >> I'm having trouble with the expire program in 1.12p. As best I can >> tell, it seems to work fine as long as there are articles which can be >> expired. When no such articles exist, expire crashes. Has anyone seen >> this before? As an alternative, can someone tell me how I can get >> source code for the program? > >I'm _very_ confused on both a) and b). > >a) It should not crash. I'll test it. For what it's worth, I acquired the 1.12r executables, and they work with no problem, no crashes. (By the way, with 1.12p I was seeing crashes of: rnews.exe uuxqt.exe, newsrun.exe, and maybe one or two others.) I am running NT 4.0, Service Pack 1. I made no changes to my UUPC/Extended configuration; I simply picked up and used the 1.12r executables and batch files. >b) The license requires the person giving you the modules to make the >source available, where did you the modules from? ftp.kew.com >Likewise, did you read the appendix of the documents on where to get the >program from? yes. Regards,Chris -- Chris Winemiller Internet: cwinemil@keys.lonestar.org UUCP : ..!uunet!iphase!dinosaur!keys!cwinemil ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hey Rocky! Watch me pull some intelligence out of the Internet!" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 21:16:09 -0500 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: TFS Delivery Failure: How not to run "newsrun"?? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 09 Dec 1996 23:01:20 -0800, nfahmi@abdulla.pc.my wrote: > In article <32ab73e0.kendra@pandora.kew.com>, > "Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended Support" wrote: > >On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 22:04:24 -0800, nfahmi@abdulla.pc.my wrote: > >> Was is happening here??? I got this reply for every posting I made > >> to uupc-info. > >> > >> bwhiteside@aur.com wrote: > >> >Your message to the following recipients was undeliverable: > >> >bconnell@aur.com > > > >One suspects you're generating a whacky header which overrides the > >default error handling (which should go to UUPC-Info-Request@kew.com). > > > Hmmmm ... I've checked the headers of my original message .... as below: > > Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:29:33 -0800 > From: nfahmi@abdulla.pc.my > Subject: How not to run "newsrun"?? > To: UUPC/Extended mailing list > Message-ID: > Reply-To: UUPC-Info@kew.com > Organization: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia > Precedence: bulk > Sender: uupc-info-request@kew.com > Errors-to: uupc-info-request@kew.com > X-Newsreader: Yarn 0.92 with YES 0.22 > Lines: 19 > X-Newsgroups: list.uupc > > I wonder which one is considered 'whacky'??? No clue, still getting them? -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 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. "Fast ship? You mean you've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?" - Hans Solo ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 16:16:14 -0800 From: nfahmi@abdulla.pc.my Subject: TFS Delivery Failure: How not to run "newsrun"?? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list In article <32acc7eb.kendra@pandora.kew.com>, uupcinfo@kew.com wrote: >On Mon, 09 Dec 1996 23:01:20 -0800, nfahmi@abdulla.pc.my wrote: >> In article <32ab73e0.kendra@pandora.kew.com>, >> "Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended Support" wrote: >> >On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 22:04:24 -0800, nfahmi@abdulla.pc.my wrote: >> >> Was is happening here??? I got this reply for every posting I made >> >> to uupc-info. >> >> >> >> bwhiteside@aur.com wrote: >> >> >Your message to the following recipients was undeliverable: >> >> >bconnell@aur.com >> > >> >One suspects you're generating a whacky header which overrides the >> >default error handling (which should go to UUPC-Info-Request@kew.com). >> >> >> Hmmmm ... I've checked the headers of my original message .... as below: ...snipped >> >> I wonder which one is considered 'whacky'??? > >No clue, still getting them? Nope ... methinks bwhiteside@aur.com has taken care of it since I asked him why this was happening... ;-) -- Nik Ahmad Fahmi e-mail: nfahmi@abdulla.pc.my 74744.1202@compuserve.com ... Was Aladdin the first Genie-us grant recipient? ------------------------------ End of UUPC-Info-Request Digest ******************************