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From: klm@wang7.UUCP (klm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UUCP/UseNet & Berks Amiga BBS
Message-ID: <2630@wang7.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 89 03:49:00 GMT
References: <8812281419.AA08795@decwrl.dec.com> <3167@sugar.uu.net>
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In article <3167@sugar.uu.net>, peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <8812281419.AA08795@decwrl.dec.com>, plouff@levers.dec.com (Wes Plouff) writes:
> > In an article on 22 December, Dan "Sneakers" Schein said,
> > >We will be releasing a new version [of AmigaUUCP] in about 1-2 weeks. 
> 
> > One hopes that the next release would either
> > include a way to patch in modem command syntax without recompiling, or
> > else exclude a half dozen or so Lattice-isms from 'uucico.' 
> 
> That'd be nice. Even more useful would be having it use windows
> instead of waiting for an acknowledgement after every packet. I'm
> using UUPC in the meantime because while it'd hopelessly PC-based
> at least it gets decent throughput.

I'm not sure about Sneakers' AmigaUUCP, but I've been extensively
hacking on UUPC for a couple of months.  A friend of mine wrote a
new dialer for the package that can be configured for different
modems at runtime by use of a configuration file.

I have also completely revamped the horribly deficient user interface
to the mail reader.  Pretty soon we are going to bundle up our changes
and send them off to the UUPC guys.  I think we would also be willing
to share our smart dialer with Sneakers or anyone else who wants it.

BTW, Dan, I called Berks BBS "once" and left you a message.  I have
since forgotten the password I used.  How silly of me.  Anyway, I'll
call in again using an alias and maybe you could straighten things
out, eh?  Thanks.

BTW, anybody interested in a news reader written in Forth?  I know
somebody who wrote one.

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