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- From: ed@invid.mwc.com (Ed Bravo)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP (was Re: 16550 support appears buggy)
- Message-ID: <9212211139.AA00139@invid.mwc.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 13:28:49 GMT
- References: <9212200441.AA27401@relay1.UU.NET>
- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
- Lines: 39
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- >
- > In article <66@colornet.com> dfilip@colornet.com writes:
- > >That, BTW, is one of the concerns I have with UUCP and 4.1, which is rumored
- > >to ship with Taylor. Although I have heard a lot of good things about Taylor,
- > >Coherent's current UUCP kludge basically just runs itself, and I havn't
- > >really had any problems.
- >
- > Maybe you haven't, but a lot of other people have. Does "packets lost from
- > the other side," ring a bell? Plus, Taylor's version is so much more
- > efficient. You won't immediately know it's running, unlike with the base
- > UUCP.
- For anyone with the problem of lost data packets from the other side,
- a fix is on the MWCBBS called uusecure.tar.Z and should be attempted to download
- before calling MWC for a copy.
- Ed ed@mwc.com
-
- >
- > >I don't want to have to start worrying about UUCP
- > >problems when I upgrade, and really DON'T want to have to worry about should
- > >I install with HoneyDanBer config files and V7 log files, or BSD config files
- > >and HoneyDanBer log files, or Taylor config files and ...
- >
- > You won't have to worry about which configuration you want. Just pick one
- > and stick to it. And neither will new users of 4.1 because, MWC will have
- > already chosen a config setup for them--Taylor's own, I imagine.
- >
- > Plus with the latest version, there is a program to convert HDB/BNU and V2
- > config files into Taylor files.
- >
- > Regards,
- >
- > Pred Bundalo
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