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cbf54755 | 1 | List of Changes to UUCP |
b499e478 | 2 | CHANGES 5.3 85/06/19 |
cbf54755 | 3 | |
1a85e9d2 | 4 | Added support for Eunice. |
cbf54755 | 5 | |
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6 | Added new dialers: |
7 | Racal Vadic 212 | |
8 | Racal Vadic 811 dialer with 831 adaptor | |
9 | Racal Vadic 820 dialer with 831 adaptor | |
10 | Racal Vadic MACS, 811 dialer with 831 adaptor | |
11 | Racal Vadic MACS, 820 dialer with 831 adaptor | |
b499e478 | 12 | Dec DF112 |
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13 | 4.2BSD style networking on top of tcp/ip ('t' protocol) |
14 | X.25/PAD support ('f' protocol) | |
15 | Novation | |
b499e478 | 16 | Penril |
cbf54755 | 17 | |
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18 | Running uucico with debugging on requires read access to L.sys. |
19 | ||
20 | If "NOSTRANGERS" is defined in uucp.h, the remote site | |
21 | must be in you L.sys or the call will be rejected. | |
cbf54755 | 22 | |
1a85e9d2 | 23 | Lock files may be kept in a subdirectory if desired. |
cbf54755 | 24 | |
1a85e9d2 | 25 | STST files are kept in a subdirectory. |
cbf54755 | 26 | |
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27 | CORRUPT subdirectory contains corrupted C. and X. files that could |
28 | not be processed. (Instead of just exiting) | |
cbf54755 | 29 | |
1a85e9d2 | 30 | You can specify a maximum grade to send either on the command line (-gX) |
b499e478 | 31 | or in the L.sys file (Any/C|Evening will only send class C [usually |
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32 | mail] or higher during the day and will send everything in the evening) |
33 | See UUAIDS/L.sys for examples. | |
cbf54755 | 34 | |
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35 | L.sys (and any of the files in lib/uucp) can contain comments by |
36 | putting a # as the first character on a line. Lines may be | |
37 | continued by placing a \ as the last character of the line. | |
cbf54755 | 38 | |
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39 | -R flag reverses role. (Lets the remote system be master first instead |
40 | of slave) | |
cbf54755 | 41 | |
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42 | -L flag only calls "local" sites. Local sites are those sites having |
43 | one of LOCAL,TCP or DIRECT in the ACU field of L.sys. | |
cbf54755 | 44 | |
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45 | If /etc/nologin is present (usually created by a graceful shutdown), |
46 | uucico and uuxqt will gracefully exit instead of getting killed | |
47 | off when the system goes down. | |
cbf54755 | 48 | |
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49 | Does an exponential backoff on retry time if call fails instead |
50 | of always waiting the default 5 minutes. The default may be | |
51 | overridden by adding ",TIME" to the time field in L.sys. e.g. | |
52 | "seismo Any,2" will use a default retry time of 2 minutes. | |
cbf54755 | 53 | |
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54 | If uucico receives a SIGFPE while running, it will toggle debugging |
55 | on and off. | |
cbf54755 | 56 | |
1a85e9d2 | 57 | Better status messages provided for uustat. |
cbf54755 | 58 | |
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59 | New program uuq to give more decriptive information on status of |
60 | jobs in uucp queue. | |
cbf54755 | 61 | |
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62 | Don't send files to remote system if it is returning out of |
63 | temp space error. | |
cbf54755 | 64 | |
1a85e9d2 | 65 | Correctly does the closing hangup sequence. |
cbf54755 | 66 | |
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67 | condevs.c was broken into a file for each dialer in the |
68 | directory aculib for much easier maintenance. | |
cbf54755 | 69 | |
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70 | Only try at most TRYCALLS to dial a site instead of one try |
71 | for each dialer (lost big on systems with many dialers) | |
cbf54755 | 72 | |
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73 | Add ABORT sequence to the expect/send sequence so don't have |
74 | to wait for timeout if can't get through dataswitch. e.g. | |
75 | noao Evening ACU 1200 6021234565 "" \d\r CLASS NOAOUUCP ABORT Down GO \d\r ogin:-\b-ogin: uucplogin word: uucppassword | |
76 | will only call noao in the evening (evening is defined by the phone rates). | |
77 | It will expect nothing and then wait 1 second (\d) and send a carriage return. | |
78 | Look for CLASS, then send NOAOUUCP. From then on, if it sees the word Down | |
79 | before finishing logging in, it will hang up immediately. In the mean time, | |
80 | it looks for GO and if it sees it, delays 1 second and sends a CR. Looks | |
81 | for ogin:, etc. This abort sequence is very useful if you must go through a | |
82 | dataswitch to get to the computer. | |
cbf54755 | 83 | |
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84 | The time field in L.sys now handles "Evening" and "Night" in addition |
85 | to Any, Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa,Su. Evening and Night are defined to | |
86 | be when the phone rates are cheaper. | |
87 | Evening = Wk1700-0800|Sa|Su | |
88 | Night = Any2300-0800|Sa|Su0800-1700 | |
cbf54755 | 89 | |
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90 | The expect/send code now supports: |
91 | \s space | |
92 | \d delay 1 second | |
93 | \r carriage return with no linefeed | |
94 | \b break | |
95 | \c don't send a CR after these characters | |
96 | \xxx the octal character xxx (e.g. \s == \040 | |
cbf54755 | 97 | |
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98 | L-devices now handles "chat" scripts (like HoneyDanber) to get |
99 | through local port selectors and smart modems more easily | |
100 | without mucking up every line of L.sys. See UUAIDs/L-devices for | |
101 | details. | |
cbf54755 | 102 | |
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103 | The 'g' protocol code was clean up a lot and is now almost |
104 | readable. | |
cbf54755 | 105 | |
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106 | If you need a parity other than even (the default) to login to |
107 | another system, you can change it in L.sys by putting in a | |
108 | sequence like "" P_ZERO (expect nothing, send zero parity). | |
109 | Odd Parity P_ODD | |
110 | Even Parity P_EVEN | |
111 | Zero Parity P_ZERO | |
112 | One Parity P_ONE | |
cbf54755 | 113 | |
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114 | If DONTCOPY is defined in uucp.h, uucp will not make a copy |
115 | of the source file by default. (This is the way System 3 does it). | |
cbf54755 | 116 | |
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117 | If an X. request fails, the notification is returned to the |
118 | originator of the request instead of "uucp" on the previous | |
119 | system. | |
cbf54755 | 120 | |
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121 | The man pages are actually accurate! |
122 | ||
123 | If LOGBYSITE is defined, uucp logging is done with | |
124 | a log file per site instead of one LOGFILE. (Like Honey DanBer does) | |
125 | ||
126 | There is a new file (optional) L.aliases that makes life simpler when | |
127 | a site changes it's name. uucp, uux, uucico, etc all check it so | |
128 | when a site is renamed (e.g convex <- parsec) all you have to do is add | |
129 | an entry in L.aliases of the form: | |
130 | newname oldname | |
131 | ||
132 | uucico will not try and resend files it has already sent (when the | |
133 | files are specified in one C. file) | |
134 | ||
135 | Incorporated Bill Sebok's code to dial in and out on the same modem. | |
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136 | |
137 | For compatibility with Honey DanBer, in the Date fields of L.sys, | |
138 | | was changed to , (| is supported, but not encouraged) | |
139 | , was changed to ; (to allow , to be the date seperator) | |
140 | ||
141 | For Honey DanBer compatibility, the Grade flag is now passed as | |
142 | -vgrade=X instead of the old -pX | |
143 | ||
144 | Don't truncate site names to 7 characters (truncate to 14 if | |
145 | anyone gets that absurd) for HDB compatibility. L.aliases may | |
146 | be used to map host with longer names in L.sys to 7 character | |
147 | names that some hosts send. Entries should be | |
148 | ||
149 | fullname 7-char-name |