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From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Using Amiga UUCP without useing long distance
Message-ID: <3345@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 27 Jan 89 12:54:10 GMT
References: <6084.AA6084@heimat>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <6084.AA6084@heimat>, sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
> In Message <6901@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>, davidg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (David Guntner) writes:
>>I've got a question of my own regarding Amiga UUCP:  How do you script things
>>so that you can use a service like PC-Pursuit to contact the host that you're
>>getting your News/mail from without dialing direct.  ...

>  Currently the only method is to customize UUCICO.c as needed. There are plans
>  to do a re-write of UUCICO in the future, im just not sure how soon though.
...

I don't know if Amiga UUCP has the expect-send-expect-send-style sequences
like real uucp (L.sys or Systems under HoneyDanBer), but UUPC on the Amiga
does and it is possible to hack up an expect-send line to dial over
PC Pursuit.  It ends up looking like:
....... ATDT2386124 CONNECT a\d in:-a-login: ID word: password @ C\sdial713/12 connected ATDT2378756 CONNECT login:--login: ID word: password

The main problem is that the number of things that have to work properly to
get through and the very limited ability of expect-send to retry means it
won't get through a lot.

Note that you'll have to be careful to insure you never call during the
day when the charges are like $35/hr.  If you use dcron, amicron or whatever,
to dial automatically, watch out for this.  Also, on PC Pursuit once I
detected (and reported to Telenet) hacking whereby a guy's program would
connect to my session before I had connected to the machine I wanted and
would simulate a login.  He couldn't get rid of the "connect from 138/40"
messages his victims received, but he counted on them being too dumb to
figure out what was going on.  The point is that his program would have
probably spoofed a expect-send line to giving up one's PC Pursuit login
and password.
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