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From: wpl@anarchy.PRC.Unisys.COM (William P Loftus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A new site (almost) on the 'Net (request for bug reports)
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Date: 15 Mar 88 16:51:57 GMT
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From article <8318@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, by erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks):
> 
> 
> I still have not worked the bugs out of the system yet, but I should soon
> be able to collect messages on my own machine!  I am using the port of
> GnUUCP from William Lufton at Unisys and am having some difficulties getting
                      ^^^^^^ Loftus
> it to work reliably.  Specifically, out of 5 tries with the _same_ binary
> and configure text files, it worked _once_ (almost).  I keep getting the
> GURU with a trap 3 (address error), but at different places in the
> conversation.

   Your message has started me thinking about a revision of UUCP.  I am 
concerned with the "5 tries."  I have been running the UUCP with  vaxes, and  
my Amiga for 4 months now without a single failure (I'm talking not even one), so
I was quite suprised to here of your problem.  If people want to give me
accounts on other types of machines I will be willing to login and test AmigaUUCP.
I know you sent me some bug reports (that have been fixed), but I didn't know
that your were getting transmition failures.
 
> I would be happy to abandon this buggy code, it only I had an
> alternative. (UUPC don't talk right to osu-cis - a 3b2)  Does anyone have any
> suggestions as to why I might be getting lots of odd address traps, even
> with the PC up in the WCS range?  BTW, I am using Lattice 4.0 (at the Physics
> Demonstration Lab - I can't afford it yet :-(, so my compile cycle is really
> long.
> 
> Thanks,
> -ethan

If anyone who got the beta test of UUCP (not UUPC) from me and is having problems
can you send me a report?  Please include in the report the type of machine,
amount of memory, your config and L.sys file, and your phone number.

Thanks,
William Loftus

ps. To prove I can send and recieve mail (without failure) people can send
mail to me at wpl@creation.prc.unisys.com  (My amiga) and I will reply.

William P Loftus			UUCP:   wpl@burdvax.UUCP
Unisys/Paoli Research Center		ARPA: 	wpl@anarchy.prc.unisys.com
PO Box 517				BITNET: 202527899@VUVAXCOM
Paoli, PA 19301                         215-648-7248 (work) 215-354-0614 (home)