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- NAME
- UUCico
-
- SYNOPSIS
- UUCico -D[EVICE] device -U[NIT] unit -Getty -w -r1 -xn -Xn
- -o -[s/S]system -e
-
- DESCRIPTION
- UUCico is the basis for UUCP. It can be run either from a
- GETTY when somebody logs into the Amiga, or it can be run
- from DCRON or manually to originate connections.
-
- Some options to UUCico are now outdated and should not be
- used. Specifically, earlier distributions did not have a
- GETTY and UUCICO had to deal with waiting for connections
- itself.
-
- Either way, the final result is a connection between your
- machine and some remote machine. UUCICO will retrieve any
- queued work on the remote machine and send any queued work on
- your machine. These work files are located in UUCP:SPOOL.
-
- The term 'work' refers to items queued by other programs,
- such as PNEWS and MAIL. These programs create files in
- UUCP:SPOOL that inform UUCICO what to do with them and where
- to send them to. On the flip side, when UUCICO receives a
- work file it will write it to UUCP:SPOOL then run UUXQT.
-
- UUXQT scans received files and determines how to break them
- up (for example, append them to the appropriate mail box or
- news directory). The control files in UUCP:SPOOL contain a
- line indicating the appropriate program required to unpack
- the files. UUXQT reads this line and runs the proper
- unpacker (RMAIL, RNEWS, or CUNBATCH).
-
- GENERAL OPTIONS
-
- (*)'d Options are supplied automatically on Getty Initiated
- connections
-
- (*) -D devicename Default is serial.device
- (*) -U unitnumber Default is 0
- -xn Set log level for us and for remote system
- -Xn Set log level but do not tell remote system
- about it.
-
- GETTY INITIATED OPTIONS
-
- (*) -Getty Tells UUCICO that it was started from a Getty.
-
- MANUAL POLL OPTIONS
-
- -ssystem Poll (call-up) the specified system
-
- -Ssystem Same as -s but ignore time restrictions
- (note, currently time restrictions are
- ignored anyway)
-
- -r1 Call all systems we have pending work for
-
- -r1 -ssystem Call this specific system if we have pending
- work.
-
- OBSOLETE OPTIONS (WAIT MODE OPTIONS) DO NOT USE IF YOU CAN HELP IT
-
- -w Tells UUCICO to wait for one or more
- connections (depending on -e) AFTER having
- previously polled one or more systems
- (-r, -s, -S).
-
- -o Tells UUCICO to not search for a CONNECT
- message when carrier is detected (hardwired
- configuration)
-
- -e Tells UUCICO to loop forever waiting for
- connections.
-
- -n FORCE WINDOW SIZE IN G PROTOCOL TO 1.
- Normally arbitrates 1 or 2.
-
- <nooptions> If UUCICO is run without either -Getty,
- -s, or -r, it will wait for a single
- connection.
-
- EXAMPLE
- -----
-
- ; Place a line similar to this in your startup-sequence!
- ; See GETTY manual
-
- resident uucp:C/Getty
- run <nil: >nil: Getty -A -B19200 -Mm
-
- -----
-
- ; Manually poll system 'foo'
- UUCico -sfoo
-
- -----
-
- ; From DCRON (DCRON ENTRY)
- 40 1 * * * uucp:c/uucico -r1
-
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- FILES/REQUIRES
- UUCP:
- UUCP:c/*
- UUCP:lib/*
- UUCP:mail/
- UUCP:spool/
- UUCP:spool/LOGFILE
-
- REFERENCES
- man/L.Sys
- man/Getty
- man/DCron
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