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From: steve@pnet51.cts.com (Steve Yelvington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: UUCP for the Mac?
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Date: 14 May 89 00:05:06 GMT
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rht@smsdpg.uu.net (Randy Thompson) writes:
>Is anyone aware of a uucp port for the Macintosh OS (not 
>A/UX) and, if it exists, where I might find it?
 
I raised that question a week or so ago and received half a dozen answers,
including one "no" and a couple of pointers to UUPC.
 
UUPC is a somewhat raw implementation of UUCP for personal computers,
originally developed for the IBM-PC but since ported to the Amiga, Atari ST
and the Mac.
 
Unfortunately, the correspondents who suggested UUPC also said that it
requires the Aztec C shell. Apparently no one has written a point-and-click
interface for it.
 
Is UUPC an attractive solution? Let me put it this way: I know of a couple of
dozen Usenet sites running on Atari STs and IBM PCs, and not one of them chose
UUPC. :-( 
 
Considering that the Mac has software for Internet and Unix Windows
applications, I'm surprised that no one has put together a good, easy-to-use
UUCP e-mail program, but that seems to be the case.
 
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