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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: SunOS 4.0 graded uucp service
Keywords: uucp graded SunOS
Message-ID: <1534@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 2 May 89 03:51:16 GMT
References: <1127@mcrware.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>We are running SunOS 4.0 and the documentation indicates that 'uucp' and
>'uux' support a '-g' option to control the grade of service.  I want to
>use this feature separate news from email/uucp delivery.  From what I
>could tell, this puts a letter on the work file (news uses 'd' and mail
>(default) uses 'A'), which grade simply controls the ordering of the
>work files.

That is true.  In older versions of UUCP, one of which is the 4.0 UUCP,
that's all the grade does.

>I could find nothing in 'uucico' to control the grade to be delivered.

That's a feature that was added in later UUCPs, namely the 4.3BSD UUCP
and versions of Honey DanBer with some of Peter Honeyman's updates (the
S5R3.[012] versions don't have those updates, and don't have that
feature).

Basically, there's grades, which are a feature of all UUCPs that I know
of (although the oldest ones don't, as I remember, allow you to specify
the grade on a "uux" operation, just on a "uucp" operation), and there's
the "max grade" feature, which lets you specify that jobs of grades
below some point will only be transferred at some times, which is only a
feature of newer UUCPs.  The features are separate, although the latter
one obviously depends on the former....

>Casual inquires from others indicate that it should be possible
>to call your newsfeed and pickup only the email and leave the news until
>later.  Am I missing something here?

Yup, you're missing a version with the feature in question; the "others"
probably have it on their systems.