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- From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: Need help with UUCP
- References: <1993Jan18.193542.25031@rtsg.mot.com>
- Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:14:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.011411.988@victrola.sea.wa.us>
- Lines: 60
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- king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist) writes:
-
- >Hi there. I've just installed SLS on my system at home and I'm trying
- >to convert my BBS from Waffle to Linux. I'm a Linux newbie, but I've
- >been using (not administrating) Unix systems for years and I know the
- >rudiments of UUCP from running Waffle. Gear your answers
- >accordingly... :-)
-
- You could always run Unix Waffle (like I and several others do). That
- way you've already got experience with the BBS side of things and all
- you need to learn is the unix version of news/mail/uucp. Connecting Waffle
- and the unix news/mail/uucp is easy and well documented.
-
- >First off, is there a reference I can look at to help me with this?
- >I've looked through the FAQ, the META-FAQ and the NET FAQ. None of them
- >really seemed to do more than mention that Linux is capable of UUCP.
-
- to help with what ? what was the question there ?
-
- Grab the O'Reilly+Associates book "managing uucp and usenet" if you want
- to learn how to do that.
-
- >My current problem is trying to get uugetty and uucico to play nicely
- >together on the same serial port. I can successfully run each program
- >individually (I can run uugetty and get a login prompt, or run uucico
- >and poll my mail host), but not both at the same time. If I've got
- >uugetty enabled on that port then I can't dial out. How do I resolve
- >this? I assume I have to somehow disable uugetty while I run uucico,
- >but how?
-
- you have a misconfigured uugetty. Works great here and many other
- places. The whole idea is that you obviously can only do one thing at
- one time on one serial port. uugetty helps stop things from stomping on
- each other...if you try to call uucico when somebody's already logged in
- remotely on that line, it'll exit gracefully and log a 'port in use' message.
-
- >On another topic, anyone know of any screen-oriented text-editors for
- >the "casual" user? The (two) users of my board are *NOT*
- >computer-literate types, and making them learn vi or emacs just to send
- >mail messages seems a bit extreme. The editor doesn't need to have any
- >fancy search and replace functions, or parenthesis matching or anything
- >else a programmer needs. Just something to enter text, with automatic
- >wordwrap.
-
- please, ask this question in comp.editors and let the religious wars
- begin somewhere other than comp.os.linux...
-
- There are dozens of editors available in unix and everybody has their own
- preferences. If you stick with Waffle under linux, you can use the lousy
- built-in editor. If you don't, you'll need something like vi or 'joe'
- (don't know if you can run that one remotely) or micro-emacs or any of the
- other usual candidates...
-
- seriously, please take the editor wars to mail or to comp.editors...
-
- --
- ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
- I saw on the news that Clinton, Gore and the Mrs. came down the
- steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the tune of 'Fanfare for the Common
- Man' to go to their $30,000,000 inaugural festivities...hmmmm.....
-