Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!eris!mwm From: mwm@eris.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: putting uucp on Amiga. Message-ID: <2869@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 20-Mar-87 09:25:34 EST Article-I.D.: jade.2869 Posted: Fri Mar 20 09:25:34 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Mar-87 15:21:39 EST References: <8703131840.AA02254@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <1574@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (No one lives forever.) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 52 In article <1574@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: >The perspective changes once one gets beyond the reach of the nearest arpanet >connection. Get beyond an arpanet connection? Bite your tongue! :-) >Seriously, what would you suggest in place of uucp? FidoNet? ACSNet? BITNet? DECNet? BerkNet? Others, and yet others, and .... Seriously, it depends on what you're going to do with it. If you want to move files from a Unix box to an Amiga at regular intervals, I'd run kermit out of cron. Catching stuff on the Amiga end requires some magic, but it will in any case. Going the other way, I'd build something that logged into a kermit server and ran with a script. On the other hand, if you want to integrate an amiga into UUCPNet (the network of machines that run uucp), then ACSNet would be a better choice, if you can get a site to talk to you. That's unlikely, so uucp is probably the only choice. Hmm, maybe BerkNet. I can even provide a connection - until we junk it. The problem in this case (over and above file transfer) is the need for remote execution of commands. If you want to joins USENet (the network of machines that exchange what used to be net.announce), then you need to run either notes or netnews or some facsimile thereof. File transfer can be whatever mechanism you want it to be (we used to use mail, but now use NNTP daemons). Networking is a strange and mysterious thing. UUCP requires constant fiddling (except in the presence of a wizard). BerkNet hiccups. ACSNet is supposed to be the best thing since sliced bits. FidoNet (if you can get a copy) would be the perfect thing for connecting a network of Amiga BBSs up. BITNet has some really strange assumptions built in (do you _really_ want everything to look like card images?). DECNet - I was kidding, I was kidding! If you want to put your Amiga into a network of Unix boxes, get an ethernet card. If you want to put it in a network of MS-DOS boxes, get an ethernet card (and run PC/IP and PC/NFS on the MS-DOS machines). If you want to network a bunch of amiga's and don't want to pay for the ethernet cards, either get FidoNet, or start from scratch (well, maybe ACSNet, but I suspect that it wants more machine than an Amiga is prepared to give it).