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From: help@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended Help Desk)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: UUPC and Ultrix (bug with Shere and no system name)
Keywords: UUPC/extended
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Date: 26 Sep 90 01:52:26 GMT
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The best way to find out who is using your program is to put a show
stopper bug in a new release.

Most UUCP systems issue a challange of the form:

	Shere=hostname

but some only issue a challange:

	Shere

This includes  Ultrix UUCP, or so it would appear.  I was aware of this
a long time ago, but forgot it and "cleaned up" the start up code in
UUPC/extended 1.08a to require the challange WITH the host name.  Thus,
UUPC systems that could connect to some hosts under version 1.07j cannot 
do so under 1.08a.

This will be corrected in release 1.08b.  However, because I rewrote
the mail delivery routines with 1000 new source lines, I am not
releasing 1.08b until the code is burned in.

Later this week I will post the source fix for UUPC/extended 1.08a.  (It
is, at most, two lines long).  

-ahd-


Drew Derbyshire

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