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From: steve@nshore.ncoast.org (Stephen J. Walick)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.mail.uucp,can.uucp
Subject: Re: Making UUCP (ascii) maps.
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.170639.1846@nshore.ncoast.org>
Date: 21 Mar 91 17:06:39 GMT
References: <1991Mar18.021454.18184@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca>
Reply-To: steve@nshore.ncoast.org (Stephen J. Walick)
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As quoted from <1991Mar18.021454.18184@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca> by mcr@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca (Michael Richardson):

+---------------
|   A long time ago, when I was first connecting up to the net (about
| 1984 or 1985) I once received an ascii 'map' showing the connections
| between sites. This was when there were under 500 sites, and the UUCP
| Zone mapping project was in its infancy. 
| 
|   Does ANYONE have any idea if these maps were produced from map data
| or by hand? If via some program, does anyone have any idea what has
| happened to them? I've checked the comp.sources.unix archives. 
| 
|   NOTE: I'm not talking about pathalias and smail here. I know all
| about those (too much if you ask me). I'm talking about things that
| would produce things like the following (which I did by hand, but
| quickly lost my patience when I realized I had to connect alzabo and
| aficom, and I hadn't gotten cognos or gandalf into the picture yet):
| 
|  esleng--+----isishq----aficom	oak-----fozzi	entrnet  
| 	 +        |       |      |         |        |    
| 	 +        |       |      |         |        |    
| 	micor-----+++++++++++++++++latour+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
| 	 +        +       |      |         |        |     |        |    
|    	 +        +	  |      |         |        |     |	   |  
|    	 +--gjk---+	atronx	 |	revcan	ottsun1  ljk----ecicrl
|        +        +       | |    |         |              |
| 	 +	  +	  | ++++fts1+++++++++++++++++++++++
| 	 +	  +	  |      | 
| 	 +	  +       |      |
| 	 |	  +-----alzabo   |   
| 	 |        |		 |
| 	 |	  |	         |
| 	 +++++++++++++++++++++++cunews++++++++++++++++++++
| 
|   If you remember seeing this kind of thing, please send any pointers
| to one of us. Thanks.
+---------------

I remember a < uucp.map > file that was on the "{uunet|backbone}!alphacm"
system very much like the above, but it hasn't changed in years (I don't
think) and have been, myself, looking for some type of executable that
would make a < uucp.map > like your example or this exceprt below --

	ucivax____ucbvax____decvax____astrovax
	      \__mickey \         \_
	     alphacm__/  |         |\_bbncca____aoa
	                 |         |\_cwruecmp__ncoast
	                 |         |\_dartvax___uvm-gen___uvm-cs
	                 |         |\_emory_____sb1
	                 |         |       \____sb6
	                 |         |        \___sunatl

[ ...several deleted lines (about 300 lines!)... ]

	                 |\_trwrb_____cadovax
	                 |       \____desint
	                 |        \___randvax
	                 |\_ucbkim
	                 |\_ucbviolet
	                 |\_ucdavis___groucho
	                 |\_ulysses
	                 |\_unisoft
	                  \_vax135____lzwi______pegasus
	                          \___petsd_____pedsgd
	                                   \____pedsgo

...Yes, I too would like to get something that would generate a file
such as the above.

Regards....  Steve Walick

-- 

Stephen J. Walick, Asst Sysop of the  < XBBS >  program  at  NCoast.ORG
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