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From: theacct@bill.ucsc.edu (El hombre de pelo estranja)
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Subject: Re: UUCP for my Amiga, What do I need?
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Date: 28 Mar 91 22:23:59 GMT
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In article <9103281623.AA04478@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> tjhayko@THUNDER.LAKEHEADU.CA writes:
>
>I'm trying to get everything I need to set up UUCP  on  my  Amiga
>and  I've  got  the  UUCP  1.13  distribution by Matt Dillon from
>uunet.uu.net.  Do I need anything else?  Somewhere in  the  docs,
>Matt mentions Cnews.  Do I need this?  I want to get everything I
>need before I move and lose my net access while I  get  this  set
>up.
>
>**********************************************************
>* Tom Hayko                    * Call The Amiga Showroom *
>* tjhayko@thunder.lakeheadu.ca * 807-344-7460 80MB online*
>* tjhayko@LAKEHEAD.BITNET      * NOTE: I'm not the sysop *
>**********************************************************

The UUCP distribution files contain all you .need. to set up your amiga as
a UUCP site, but there are LOTS of external newsreaders that people have 
written that you may find more attractive than Dillon's distributed version.
When you use the uucico and getty programs to obtain data, the are placed
in spool with cryptic file names, these are the data files retrieved through
uucp, and the files such as "Dnews", and  "Dmail" simply take these files and
put fancy programs around them to read them.  Good luck, and thanks for posting
this, I Didn't know that 1.13 was the latest version! :)

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