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From: logajan@ns.UUCP (John Logajan x3118)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: GFA Basic (2.0) implementation of uucp -- for free.
Message-ID: <1063@ns.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 89 23:53:55 GMT
Organization: Network Systems Corp. Mpls MN
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I just sent my GFA Basic (2.0) implementation of uucp/uucico to the
comp.sources.atari.st moderator.  This is a human readable listing
of a uucp compatible file transfer program (the thing that dialup
sites use for Usenet mail and news transfer, like what you are reading
now.)  I also included a write-mail and a read-mail program, along with
some setup information and a discussion of the protocol, for those who
seek to improve upon it.  Collectively they are released into the
public domain and are known as MailTruk V1.0.

I have been using them for the last week (not a lot of debug time) after
writing them for a month or two.  I increased my "effort" after my
Telebit TrailBlazer Plus arrived in mid december.  Now my TB+ can run
at nearly theoretical full speed.  I did a 100,000 byte transfer at an
average rate of 1400 cps!  (This is in compiled mode, in interpreter mode
the rate was about 1200 cps.)  (Those stupid one-packet-window uucp hacks
make 2400 baud run at an effective 1200 baud rate, or ten times slower
that the TB+ with 3-packet-windows!!!)

For those of you who like to experiment, you can change the packet/window
size to any of the allowed values, w=1-7 and p=32-4096.

I wrote it just for me, but I hope someone else can find a use for it too.

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