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From: neil@ist.CO.UK (Neil Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Packet size & number of windows in UUCP
Summary: UKUUCP exists, NOT PD
Keywords: UUCP, packets, windows, tweaks, performance
Message-ID: <157@istop.ist.CO.UK>
Date: 5 Feb 88 12:03:22 GMT
References: <567@acornrc.UUCP> <13668@pyramid.pyramid.com> <788@vixie.UUCP> <398@cogen.UUCP>
Organization: Imperial Software Technology, London, UK
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In article <398@cogen.UUCP>, alen@cogen.UUCP (Alen Shapiro) writes:
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> ukc (University of Kent U.K.) have had a version of uucp (I believe it
> is a p.d. version) that one can specify both packet-size and # of windows
> in the L.sys file. By tuning these fields I've been able to get our
> 2400baud tx light to remain on pretty steadily (with a regular rx ack
> flash that sometimes skips a beat but so what cos when the window param
> is set correctly, tx remains on).
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> if ukc would mind me sending copies.
> 
> It's the best thing since sliced chips
> 
> --alen the Lisa slayer (it's a long story)
> 
> ps anyone at ukc wanna comment?
> 

OK, not a UKC comment but:- UKUUCP is not written by UKC, is derives
for HB (I believe), much of the dirty work was done by 
Lee McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk> currently at Imperial College
in London. The majority of sites in the UK use it. Zillions of bug
fixes, plus improved structure of L.sys file, additional protocols
(currently g,f and t I think), runs nicely over X25 lines.

New release is currently on the cards, as for getting it that is
possibly a problem is it is NOT PD.

Neil

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