Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!sdcsvax!telesoft!bruceb From: bruceb@telesoft.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: uuslave.c coordination & move to comp.mail.uucp Message-ID: <379@telesoft.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Feb-87 00:10:09 EST Article-I.D.: telesoft.379 Posted: Tue Feb 3 00:10:09 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 4-Feb-87 01:50:46 EST References: <1911@ncoast.UUCP> <1683@hoptoad.uucp> <1943@ncoast.UUCP> <378@telesoft.UUCP> <1697@hoptoad.uucp> Organization: TeleSoft, SanDiego CA Lines: 70 > bruceb@telesoft.UUCP (Bruce Bergman @spot) writes: > > ...the protocol > > level of uucp is not documented. Those who know the info aren't willing to > > share it, so if you want to rewrite uucp, you are on your own. > > Anyhow, with the advent of uuslave.c, the gaps have filled in. > > It takes some digging, but the protocol level of UUCP *is* documented. There > is a mailing list for people interested in reimplementing uucp in the public > domain, and the protocol description has come out over it. I have also sent > it out to several people who have asked the net for it. Well. Sounds good to me. If YOU have the documented protocol for UUCP, be my guest and post it. It certainly has been my experience that NO ONE has ever responded to my request for information. Maybe you are a first... I have what I consider a 'hackers' view of UUCP. That means, the information I have has been gleaned through use of UUCP's debugging facility, as well as any other source of information I could find. Undoubtedly yours must be better than mine, so I won't post mine unless I don't see yours soon. To date, 59 people have responded to my offer of posting UUCP documentation. I hope that you can supply those 59 people with the information they are looking for. For that matter, I hope anyone can. Its a big job. > > If anyone is interested in the Modula-2 or C versions of uuslave.c for MS-DOS, > > please send me a note. I'll be porting it as we speak, in any case. > > I think that we should try to keep a single set of C sources that run UUCP > on all machines. Take C-Kermit as an example. I hate having seventy... > Run on all machines. Right. Talk to lauren about that. Ha. :-) > I am willing to act as a clearing house for C versions of uuslave that run > on different systems, in order that there be some center to the chaos. Great! I really was hoping someone with time would suggest something like this. Anyhow, my version of C source doesn't exist yet. It won't until I feel my Modula-2 version is working properly. I'll send you mine later. > I will post the uucp protocol description to comp.mail.uucp. See you there! > > John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@ingres.berkeley.edu I'm waiting (here) with bated breath. Well John, I appreciate what you are doing. Really. I wish someone would have helped ME out before. My goal in dealing with UUCP is to get something that I can use. It doesn't need to be perfect. It doesn't need to work with all systems. If I can use it, then if it doesn't work, that's my problem. Maybe someone else out there feels the same way. Anyway, more power to you. I would love to see a pd UUCP show up. I don't like paying the price lauren wants, and I prefer source code anyway. If you do get a good UUCP going (and it's pd), I'd really like to see it posted. Who knows, maybe even Minix could join the net. thanks guy... bruce -- bang!- allegra!\ \ gould9! \ crash!--\ ihnp4! \ \ >--sdcsvax!---->--telesoft!bruceb (Bruce Bergman N7HAW) noscvax! / / scgvaxd! / sdencore!--/ ucbvax! / / talaris!-