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From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Should I go commercial?
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Date: 27 Oct 89 07:01:28 GMT
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	Since the UUCP stuff still has GNU stuff in it, it must be
    Freeware.  So, Getty will most definitely be Freeware too since
    Its current best use is with UUCP.

	Re: ARexx... Writing a BBS, news reader in ARexx sounds like
    a nice solution, but the Getty itself should not be written in
    ARexx... don't go overboard with ARexx!

	Getty is self contained.  It exists to serve an explicit 
    function... front end people/programs dialing up, get the baud
    rate, and run the right program (based on a UNIX like passwd file),
    then run the appropriate disconnect sequence when the program
    exits.

	At the moment its best use is with UUCP and BBSs... especially
    systems on which people want to run both UUCP and a BBS.

	I don't know exactly how AUX: is supposed to work, but unless
    it deals with the carrier properly, has a programmable timeout for
    read()s, and an asynchronous write buffer, AND can handle multiple
    serial ports, it's useless for most applications that I can think
    of.

    ---

	UUCICO:  I've added security (people can't overwrite your
    startup sequence with UUCP transfers, for example), rewritten
    GIO.C (the G protocol) completely, rewritten SYSDEP.C, redone
    quite a big hunk of UUCICO.C, and added various other miscellanious
    items.  Combined with Getty it makes UUCP into an extremely useful
    distribution.

	The whole UUCP dist should appear via the moderator in a week
    or two.  It will appear via anonymous FTP to ucbvax.berkeley.edu 
    in a couple of days.

				-Matt