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From: bill@meadow.UUCP (Bill Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re:UUCP
Message-ID: <27@meadow.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 89 11:25:46 GMT
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> From: stag!thelake!steve@bungia.mn.org (Steve Yelvington)
> 
>  MCCABE@MTUS5.BITNET writes ...
> > 
> > Does anyone have any direct experience with any UUCP programs for the
> > ST?  I'd like to hear comments from people who actually have tried to
> > use UUPC, UUCICO, or any other UUCP clones?  I've got some specific
> > questions:
> > 
> 
> I have direct experience with UUMAIL and the UUCALL program that is
> distributed with STadel BBS. Other programs that I know of, but have not
> used, include Beckemeyer's UUCP (for owners of his multitasking package)
> and the freeware program UUPC. John Logajan (logajan@logajan.mn.org) has
> written MAILTRUK in compilable GFA BASIC.
> 
> UUMAIL uses your favorite editor and file pager. It can support incoming
> calls as well as call out. It handles two forms of address-lookup tables.
> It does not handle Usenet batched news, but has a pseudonews function for
> remailing to a list of systems. STdNET has several UUMAIL nodes hooked
> into stag, receiving this newsgroup broken up into regular mail files. It
> was written by Dale Schumacher, who has moved on to the mysterious planet
> of Minix. I think John Stanley may be working on enhancements now. 
> 
> UUCALL wants to be used in conjunction with STadel BBS, which is an
> excellent BBS, but not as convenient as your favorite text editor. It does
> not support incoming UUCP calls. Batched (not compressed) news is
> supported, but you can't post news. E-mail can be routed transparently
> between UUCP and the STadel BBS network, which uses a different protocol.
> UUCALL will handle any Internet-format messages, and Jim Kershner has
> written a utility to import/ export Fidonet echomail in conjunction with
> UUCALL and Binkley Term. David (orc) Parsons is the author of STadel and
> UUCALL (shareware).
> 

I have written a system similar to that of STadel.  It supports batched news
and outgoing calls.  With the bbs software, it supports full Unix style
crontab outgoing calls plus incoming calls, etc.
    You can post to news and reply via email, and there is also a
transparent network of Atari's running this software.  Much superior to rnews.
It supports signature files, one directory per user, access levels, etc.
    The really nice thing about this software is that it is designed to work
on any type of terminal (main console, serial port, extra serial ports).
The message base and full screen editor will also run under Beckemeyer's RTX
if you have it.  This way you can use it on your remote in the other room in
the background, or set up a bbs that is full screen menu driven and supports
every intelligent terminal that Unix does.  The bbs is very flexible and will
run anything you write to go along with it.
    Currently you must use the Freeware UUPC to support unix access to the
message base, or you could get all of the best newsgroups via another Atari.
The Atari networker also supports file transfers (better than uuto) and is
designed for concurrent software development at multiple sites.

 Message Base + Full screen editor + Atari Networker + BBS + Freeware UUPC

    For more info please email.

                  BFOSTER = GEnie,  WHTB33B = Prodigy
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