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From: pax@megasys.COM (Garry M. Paxinos)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Waffle PC<->Usenet
Message-ID: <187@megasys.COM>
Date: 2 Nov 89 22:16:41 GMT
References: <3618@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <0929891056249703@thelake.UUCP> <3619@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <1989Oct30.015539.27779@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <3620@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
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In-reply-to: dell@amelia.nas.nasa.gov's message of 30 Oct 89 02:52:35 GMT

In article <3620@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> dell@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Thomas E. Dell) writes:

   packages, and things that are just outright wrong. I believe this release
   will fix most of those. Ufgate, gnuucp, early DCP, and AmigaUUCP all use 
   the 1 packet window, and that DCP is probably what you looked at.

   True. There still exist differences in functionality. UUPC for instance,
   will not work in slave (dialin) operation, and cannot operate as a nonleaf
   site. Uuslave/Ufgate has the 1 packet window, and requires dealing with 
   Fido'isms, which is fine if you like numbers instead of a domain-based 

On uuslave (as shipped with UFGATE), it will run a window of 3 on
inbound (settable to 7 via command line.)  However, outbound is limited
to a window of one.  

Also, ufgate does not make you use a 'number' based system, node numbers 
are only used to communicate with other fidonet nodes.  A ufgate
site can be known by only a domain name (my site was first
ankh.fidonet.org then changed to ankh.ftl.fl.us while still running
ufgate, it now however is a unix system.)  

For the record, ufgate was operating at several beta sites across
the country by mid '86.

Take care,
Garry.
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