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From: magik@sorinc.UUCP (Darrin A. Hyrup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: uucp 1.03D
Message-ID: <9002221827.AA05320@sorinc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 90 19:27:02 GMT
References: <06775.AA06775@caleb.UUCP>
Reply-To: magik%sorinc@PacBell.COM (Darrin A. Hyrup)
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In article <06775.AA06775@caleb.UUCP> jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
>Hello,
>       I have been running uucp and news on my Amiga for about a year
>now.  I am trying to install Matt's new (thanks Matt, et al) version of
>the Amiga uucp software.  I have had a problem with rnews.  It seems
>to get lost (i.e. many 'out of sync' errors) on perfectly good input
>files.  (I know that they are ok, because the old 0.4 version of rnews
>processes them just fine.)  The files are batched news articles (NOT
>compressed.)  For now, I am using the old rnews, but I would like to
>know why the new rnews doesn't work.

Thats a good question. Most people we've (Matt and I) have heard from
regarding the latest release of the UUCP project haven't had any problems,
but it seems to be related to uncompressed batches, rather than compressed
batches which we test with.  I don't know if this is a good answer, but if
its possible, and your upstream site doesn't mind, you should consider
going to compressed news.

Of course, I've heard that some people can use the uncompressed news just
fine, so it may be related to your individual system environment.  If
someone can actually isolate the problem, we'll apply a bug-fix for it.

>Also, what ever happened to the Amiga uucp mailing list?  I was told
>that I had been put on it, but I have never received anything.  Did
>it die due to lack of interest?  If not, how do I get on the list?

The original AmigaUUCP mailing list died recently from what I was told.
But, even before that time, we've been running a mailing list here for
contributors and development enthusiasts for this UUCP release. If you
feel you would be contributing, and want to join, send your request to:

          amiga-uucp-request%sorinc@PacBell.COM
      or  {ames,att,sun,...}!pacbell!sorinc!amiga-uucp-request

>                                                Jim Pritchett

Best wishes,

      Darrin Hyrup
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Darrin A. Hyrup              // AMIGA Enthusiast         rencon!esfenn!dah
magik@sorinc.PacBell.COM   \X/ & Software Developer   pacbell!sorinc!magik
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