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From: jason@cbmami.UUCP (Jason Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: UUCP Summary
Message-ID: <1869097d.ARN0cac@cbmami.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 90 23:14:53 GMT
Reply-To: jason@cbmami.UUCP
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Thanks to all those to who responded to one of my many questions about
running UUCP from an Amiga and for all those who helped me get it running.
I would like to list all your names but so many people responded it would
hardly be a summary.

How to run recieve news and mail via UUCP from your Amiga:

You need one of two software packages, both are PD.  UUCP1.06d from Matt
Dillon (1.07 is reportedly due out next month), or UUCPPlus (I don't know
the author).  UUCP is recomended for the beginner as it has a much more
complete set of docs (still not what you would call easy to follow but I
got through them all right).  UUCPPlus is an enhanced version of UUCP1.06d
which adds the ability to pass a news feed to another site, among other
enhancements.  Both programs can recieve news and mail from other sites as
well as pass mail to other sites, but only UUCPPlus can pass news to
another site.  The one drawback of UUCP1.06d is the newsread Dnews is not
to strong.  There is a newsreader which comes with UUCPPlus called ARN
which will work with either program and it is a much better reader.

The programs seem to run under any Amiga configuration and any Hayes
compatable modem.  They will even run under floppies.  Obviously if you
plan to recieve news storage space and modem speed will be at a premium.

You need only find a current UUCP site which is willing to feed you, follow
the docs from UUCP1.06d and you are all set.

My personal experiences:

Overall I am very happy.  I am posting this from my Amiga as well as
sending and recieving mail regularly.  I have run into a few problems
though, feel free to respond if you have any answers:

1.  I can't get UUCP1.06d to work at 9600 baud V.32, others have reported
the same problem, while still others have had the same hardware with no
problem.  All of us have had the 68030 chip, someone reported that the
problems went away when they moved there spool to ram: but this has not
worked for me and my transfers still fail at 9600 baud.

2.  I was never able to get DNews to post news.  I am using Arn now and
assuming that you are reading this, it has fixed my problems.

3.  I don't really like the dmail program which seems to give you no choice
but to delete all mail after reading it, or save it to a separate file.  I
sometimes like to just leave some mail in my box.

Well thats about it,


-Jason-

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Jason Goldberg				UUCP: ucsd!serene!cbmami!jason
Del Mar, CA