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From: pete@wlbr.EATON.COM (Pete Lyall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: uucp for OS9
Message-ID: <10624@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Date: 14 Apr 88 17:10:59 GMT
References: <382@esquire.UUCP> <2170@frog.UUCP>
Reply-To: pete@wlbr.UUCP (0000-Pete Lyall)
Organization: Eaton IMS, Westlake Village, CA
Lines: 45
Keywords: help have 68k source

In article <2170@frog.UUCP> rms@frog.UUCP (Bob Santy) writes:
>In article <382@esquire.UUCP>, wynkoop@esquire.UUCP (Brett Wynkoop) writes:
>> 
>> Greetings-
>>       My frustration level is very high at the moment.  I have been trying
>> with very little luck to get uucp running on my level 2 os9 system (512k
>> coco3).  I have the 68000 FLEX source in C, but I am not a C or OS9 wizard,
>
>Brett:
>I'll give it a try.  I've had some experience porting C programs of
>considerable size to my COCO-III.  Sounds like a good challenge.

Bob, Brett, and others...

There have been UUCP derivatives floating about in
comp.sources.[unix|misc] for quite some time. A few that come to mind
are UUSLAVE, UUPC, and DCP. UUSLAVE was alleged to be somewhat
limited, and unreliable, although I don't recall the specifics. UUPC
was supposed to be primarily set up for the IBM-PC family - I haven't
any knowledge of what it would take to port it. The last (DCP) was
brought to my attention when Steve Sampson (frequents the NET and
Compuserve) ported DCP to Uniflex (a unix clone running on 6809/680x0
hardware). He has sent me his updated sources for the DCP package. I
have looked them over, and feel that porting would not be an
exceptionally difficult task. Biggest areas of concern will be the
IOCTL stuff, the lack of an 'alarm()' function in MW C, and some
#defined string literals which are over 16 characters in length (some
function names are fairly long as well). As an aside, I believe I have
a kludgey but portable solution to the 'alarm()' problem. 

I too have hacked some substantially large C code over to OS9/LII from
unix, and concur that this could be fun (and rewarding!). Conceivably,
your os9 system could become a UUCP node if you have a local (and
friendly) unix site. Read your UUCP mail over your (early) morning
coffee! I have long been using a C-Kermit script to effect my
automated transfers, and would really like the additional
functionality that having a UUCP-like tool would provide. Bob - count
me in  - I'll play.

Pete


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