Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!manuel!ccadfa!prolix!dac From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: UUCICO failed or worked? Message-ID: <18ad98b9.ARN2b15@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> Date: 13 Feb 91 14:20:09 GMT References: <18aacb3d.ARN2a90@prolix.ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au> Reply-To: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Organization: More like Mis~, really. Lines: 40 In article , Scot L. Harris writes: > >In article <18aacb3d.ARN2a90@prolix.ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au> dac@prolix.ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) writes: > > > >What I'm irritated by, is not being able to CALL out and get a connect with > >whichever of the two sites I call [they're engaged lots of the time]. My > Why not do what I have done. I use dcron to kick off that script I showed > you a couple of times an hour for the sites I call on a regular basis. > Sometimes it connects other times it does not. The problem boils down to cost. It costs me long distance to call Melbourne, and I'm only grabbing a miniscule amount of mail from that site. Once a day. With my newsfeed, I grab 200+K (batched) mail a night, but it is ONLY available to me at 7.pm. Until I call the next day (after 7pm), I won't get any more news. All I want to do is loop until I'm assured that I've gotten through to a particular site. I'm too lazy to go around parsing logfiles to see what the photon is happening, and I thought that I was missing something obvious, like a return code from UUCICO. If I was a little more proficient with C, and spent less time asking instead of doing, I'd probably have solved the problem weeks ago. I hate inventing solutions for already solved problems, if you get my drift. > script I have encapsulated my terminal programs in scripts as well which > set up the uucp.lck lock so that uucp does not trash a login session. All well and good if you have access to a _continuous_ mail feed. I don't, and don't need one. Thankyou for your suggestion anyway. > /// /_\ Scot L. Harris ...!tarpit!bilver!amigash!scot Dac -- _l _ _ // Andrew Clayton. Canberra, Australia. I Post . (_](_l(_ \X/ Send mail to dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au . . I am.