Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!necntc!encore!paradis
From: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: UUCP & mail for minix
Summary: Real Soon Now 8-)
Message-ID: <2691@encore.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 88 05:30:40 GMT
References: <1851@botter.cs.vu.nl> <2677@encore.UUCP> <3806@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM>
Reply-To: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Organization: The Whizzo Chocolate Company
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In article <3806@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM> bing@galbp.UUCP (Bing Bang) writes:
>does this mean you have uucp working for minix? and a mailer? i'm looking to
>port dcp to my tty driver but if you have something that already works,
>why don't you post it. i'll be most greatful if i could get uucp or clone
>working without the effort of a full port.

Yes, I have "uucp" and a mailer working on my system.  But I don't think
it's quite ready to release for general consumption yet (Just in the last
hour I discovered a bug where it doesn't deal with spool files whose 
names are exactly 14 chars long...).  The uucp is DCP with the g-packet
driver stolen from UUPC (the latter being a better 3-window protocol to
DCP's 1-window protocol).  The mailer is "dmail", to which I've had to do
a fair bit of hacking to get around its BSD-isms.  I hacked together my
own little teeny-weeny "sendmail", which doesn't work too well... Pete
Housel mentioned that he got "smail" working on his machine.  Pete?  Could
you tell me more?  I took one look at smail and wondered if it would be
worth the bother... but if you've got it working maybe I'd like to see it.

I'll release these when I think they're ready.  If some of you REALLY REALLY
can't wait, I suppose I could send out alpha-test versions... but by email
only... caveat downloader, and all that...

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