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From: ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Adrian Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: uucp
Message-ID: <23cRy2w164w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
Date: 13 Mar 91 17:29:00 GMT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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I've managed to get uucp set up following the directions in SysAdmin, but 
strange things are happening. My slab will call the remote site, grab 
packets, hang up, call back, do *SOME* kind of communicating (debug 
with uucico doesn't show anything), and then hang up again, The second 
time it hangs up, the files it grabbed are GONE!! They no longer exist 
anywhere on my drive. During the transfer, I can look in 
/private/spool/uucp/D. and they're there, but afterwards they seem to 
vanish. Anybody have any idea what's going on?
 
On the same tack, I'm presuming the files I end up with are uuencoded. 
When I finally get them to stay on my hd, I'm guessing I'll need some 
form of readnews-like program to view them. Can anyone tell me if this is 
correct, and if so, where I can ftp (hopefully binaries) from?
 
These questions may have been asked before, but I'm a absolute amateur 
with unix and NeXT... :-)
 
Thanks,

-drin