Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: uux sending mail on success
Message-ID: <1988Jul21.161754.14240@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <172@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 88 16:17:54 GMT

In article <172@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mrw@rex.UUCP (Marilyn Wulfekuhler) writes:
>When feeding another site 'spike', upon successful delivery of each batch of 
>news, I get a mail message from spike!uucp telling me that uux completed 
>normally... uux ___with the -z option___ 

Two things to watch for.  First, some old uuxqt's do not support -z; you
will have to find out from your neighbor whether this is the case with his.
Second, beware that the semantics of the -z option are not the same in all
uux's:  in HDB, the old -z behavior is the *default*, and an explicit -z
requests notification if the command *succeeds*.  (Note that this is a
user-interface difference in uux, not a difference in what is sent:  HDB
without -z sends what a non-HDB uux would send with -z.)
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