Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!burdvax!anarchy!wpl From: wpl@anarchy.PRC.Unisys.COM (William P Loftus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Problem with amiga UUCP.. Summary: What to do when people don't read all of the documentation.... Message-ID: <7539@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Date: 9 Sep 88 16:26:52 GMT References: <823@kuling.UUCP> Sender: news@PRC.Unisys.COM Lines: 44 In article <823@kuling.UUCP>, jonasf@kuling.UUCP (Jonas Flygare) writes: > I have encountered some rather disturbing problems with the uucp > on fich disk #152. First I found out the hard way that adresses are > on the format !! Then I managed to get it talking to my nearest host, but after receiving > the files (host->amiga) it guru again. I suspect it is something in > rmail that causes this, as the log shows. (see below) What to do. It says in the documentation that the only addressing method supported is !!. I would need the address used, and the method of invocation of the mail program. > Here is some headers for the received files. > > Is it this that causes rmail to guru?? should it be kuling!jonasf? > / > From jonasf@kuling Tue Sep 6 21:52:10 1988 No. for the purposes of rmail it is unimportant. The important line is in the X file---"C rmail flax." > > I cannot spot anything irregular here, so any hints will be appreciated! Neither can I. The same files will work on my system... > > My amiga is a 2000 with 3 megs of memory, and arp (The one last posted on > the net) > > If You have *any* hints, mail me! I *really* want to use my amiga for this! > > (I have "the other" uucp, but i find this one "cleaner" to use, and > more like the "real thing". Except it doesn't work.. ;-) It does work, but UUCP is a compilcated system, and it is not always easy to know what is causing the problem. In any case, a program should never guru, so I guess you are correct in assuming that there are some problems with UUCP. -- William P Loftus UUCP: wpl@burdvax.UUCP Unisys/Paoli Research Center ARPA: wpl@anarchy.prc.unisys.com PO Box 517 215-354-0614 (home) Paoli, PA 19301 215-648-7248 (work)