Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!tank!shamash!nis!sialis!orbit!pnet51!steve From: steve@pnet51.cts.com (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Hardwired "g" protocol values Message-ID: <721@orbit.UUCP> Date: 4 Mar 89 16:25:08 GMT Sender: root@orbit.UUCP Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN. Lines: 23 csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes: >Note that reverse-engineering the 'g' protocol is *damn* hard. Few have done >so without making grave sacrifices; UUPC and uuslave, for example, came out >supporting only a window size of 1, and gave up under almost any error con- >dition that the AT&T 'g' implementation would plow right through. Indeed, the >'g' protocol is by far the biggest stumbling block to producing a PD UUCP. > > John Logajan (logajan@logajan.mn.org) has written a PD UUCP mailer for the Atari ST in -- get this -- BASIC. I believe it uses a window size of 3, and was written from UUCP documentation, not based on preexisting code. I have not tried it, but others who have say it works just fine. I'm using an ST program called UUMAIL that grew out of UUSLAVE and shares its limitations of a window size of 1 and a propensity to cry "uncle" when the going gets rough. UUCP: {uunet!rosevax,amdahl!bungia,chinet,killer}!orbit!pnet51!steve ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!steve@nosc.mil INET: steve@pnet51.cts.com ----------- -or- stag!thelake!steve@pwcs.StPaul.GOV "A member of STdNET -- the ST Developers' Network"