Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Re: Networks considered harmful/Re: USENIX board studies UUCP Message-ID: Date: 29 Dec 89 02:36:07 GMT References: <7375@ficc.uu.net> <670005@gore.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 19 > You don't need init. Let uucico run as a daemon, started from /etc/rc. > Well, you may need an equivalent of a getty unless you standardize on a > specific speed/parity/stop bits/etc. combination. I wouldn't want to standardise on a speed. Use the fastest hardware you can afford. And if you need getty, why not? > I wouldn't either, but I thouht we were talking about turnkey > point-to-point email, based on your generic Piece of Crap clones. Yeh, but I'd like to keep it compatible with existing point-to-point UUCP. So you can have your UNIX mini in the office accept calls from the salesemen and feild engineers laptop email machines. So a *simple* standard chat script would be handy. "" ogin--ogin--ogin email for a PC: send "CR" until you get "login", then send "emailCR" until you get a protocol start. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com