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From: sw@nan.co.uk (Sak Wathanasin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: UUCP/Usenet for Mac
Message-ID: <0101000D.qennd0@nan.co.uk>
Date: 1 Feb 91 11:02:52 GMT
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X-Mailer: uAccess - Mac Release: 1.0.3


In article <1991Jan31.172838.16123@cvedc.uucp>, daveh@cvedc.uucp (Dave Heinen) writes:

> I have used 3 different uucp packages on the mac. Macfsuucp, uupc, and Uaccess.
> 
> each has pros and cons depending on your situation.(and budget)
> 
> uupc:
> 	very fast on my 19.2kbit telebit.
> 	ugly/no real human interface.
> 	won't run under multifinder well

Doesn't work in the background at all, in fact (:-().

Sorry, guys. This version came about because the company I worked for decided
it didn't want an R & D dept any more, and I needed a net connection in
a hurry (how could I live without my daily net.fix? :-), so I did it the quickest
way I could find, which was to convert Stuart Lynne's Aztec C code to Think
C.

Alen Sheppy got news to work and made myriad other improvements. He sent
me mail some time ago to say that he was putting together a version 2.4,
and I sent him some fixes to cure the problem where uupc hung up if the
line drops in the middle of a conversation. Don't ask me how it's coming
along...

Someone else told me that he had a friendly front-end ready for beta, but
I'll respect his wishes for privacy at this time (since he would have posted
to this group if it was ready for general distribution). I presume he doesn't
want to innundated with requests for a copy at this time.

> MACfsuucp
> ....

Is this the port of GNU uucp?

> uAccess
> ....

I agree with everything that was said, but I should warn prospective buyers
that it needs a 1 MB MultiFinder partition if you want to run news in the
background. Since I now have a commercial interest in uAccess, I shall refrain
from other comments.


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