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- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: mn.general
- Subject: Re: UUPC on an 8088?
- Message-ID: <g6NcwB5w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 13:06:27 CST
- References: <725232517snx@crud.mn.org>
- Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
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- trashman@crud.mn.org (Barry Schwartz) writes:
- >
- > In article <1992Dec21.181154.2247@pwcs.stpaul.gov> derekt@pwcs.stpaul.gov wri
- > >
- > > Clayton Haapala (clay@haapi.mn.org) wrote:
- > > : A prospective MN.Org member wants to know if he can run UUPC on an
- > > : 8088 Compaq computer. Any of you UUPC experts out there know if this
- > > : can be done or not?
- > > : clay@haapi.mn.org
- > >
- > > Depending on the version of uupc and other unix-mail/news-under-dos
- > > clones, it will probably run on an 8088. I saw and worked with a
- > > version that ran on the 8086. However, it may not be very feature
- > > rich, like some of the more powerful versions due to the limitations of
- > > the 8088.
- >
- > Users who are interested in Netnews will find that there isn't any
- > strong support for news in UUPC/extended, although it is currently
- > under development. There is an add-on called Snews available, but it
- > is fragile. (However, it doesn't eat as much disk space as the
- > built-in UUPC news support will.) MSDOS users who want a plug-in news
- > system ought to check out Waffle and FSUUCP instead. (These systems
- > may, however, do less to protect against filename clashes than does
- > late-model UUPC/extended.)
- >
- Waffle should work for what you need and will provide news and mail services
- on the dos machine. I am fairly sure there shouldn't be much of a problem
- in running this on an XT, though it would depend on the memory the machine
- has, and how many news groups you want to get.
-
- As for Waffle protecting against filename clashes, Waffle does a pretty good
- job. For starters, Waffle takes the long filenames (D.wahtever2a35d2) and
- munges them down to a letter or two followed by what appears to be a sequence
- number (end result would look like TA2A35D2.D), since the first part is
- generally the UUCP name of the system. These files are then stored in a
- directory defined by SYSTEMS in \Waffle\UUCP (waf 1.65 version). When UUXQT
- is run, it looks in SYSTEMS and then goes to those directorys looking
- for .X files to execute. The end result is less possibility of filename
- clashing and loss of data.
-
- If I understand the problems mentioned above with UUPC and VIRTUAL_NAME,
- Waffle should not have problems with this either.
-
- [NOTE: I do not have source to Waffle and don't know C, so I couldn't tell
- you 100% if this is what is really happening with Waffle, my comments are
- based upon what I see Waffle doing and from the DOCS for Waffle].
-
- Greg
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