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cbf54755 | 1 | List of Changes to UUCP |
1a85e9d2 | 2 | CHANGES 5.2 85/04/10 |
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 | |
12 | 4.2BSD style networking on top of tcp/ip ('t' protocol) | |
13 | X.25/PAD support ('f' protocol) | |
14 | Novation | |
cbf54755 | 15 | |
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16 | Running uucico with debugging on requires read access to L.sys. |
17 | ||
18 | If "NOSTRANGERS" is defined in uucp.h, the remote site | |
19 | must be in you L.sys or the call will be rejected. | |
cbf54755 | 20 | |
1a85e9d2 | 21 | Lock files may be kept in a subdirectory if desired. |
cbf54755 | 22 | |
1a85e9d2 | 23 | STST files are kept in a subdirectory. |
cbf54755 | 24 | |
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25 | CORRUPT subdirectory contains corrupted C. and X. files that could |
26 | not be processed. (Instead of just exiting) | |
cbf54755 | 27 | |
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28 | You can specify a maximum grade to send either on the command line (-gX) |
29 | or in the L.sys file (Any@C|Evening will only send class C [usually | |
30 | mail] or higher during the day and will send everything in the evening) | |
31 | See UUAIDS/L.sys for examples. | |
cbf54755 | 32 | |
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33 | L.sys (and any of the files in lib/uucp) can contain comments by |
34 | putting a # as the first character on a line. Lines may be | |
35 | continued by placing a \ as the last character of the line. | |
cbf54755 | 36 | |
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37 | -R flag reverses role. (Lets the remote system be master first instead |
38 | of slave) | |
cbf54755 | 39 | |
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40 | -L flag only calls "local" sites. Local sites are those sites having |
41 | one of LOCAL,TCP or DIRECT in the ACU field of L.sys. | |
cbf54755 | 42 | |
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43 | If /etc/nologin is present (usually created by a graceful shutdown), |
44 | uucico and uuxqt will gracefully exit instead of getting killed | |
45 | off when the system goes down. | |
cbf54755 | 46 | |
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47 | Does an exponential backoff on retry time if call fails instead |
48 | of always waiting the default 5 minutes. The default may be | |
49 | overridden by adding ",TIME" to the time field in L.sys. e.g. | |
50 | "seismo Any,2" will use a default retry time of 2 minutes. | |
cbf54755 | 51 | |
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52 | If uucico receives a SIGFPE while running, it will toggle debugging |
53 | on and off. | |
cbf54755 | 54 | |
1a85e9d2 | 55 | Better status messages provided for uustat. |
cbf54755 | 56 | |
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57 | New program uuq to give more decriptive information on status of |
58 | jobs in uucp queue. | |
cbf54755 | 59 | |
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60 | Don't send files to remote system if it is returning out of |
61 | temp space error. | |
cbf54755 | 62 | |
1a85e9d2 | 63 | Correctly does the closing hangup sequence. |
cbf54755 | 64 | |
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65 | condevs.c was broken into a file for each dialer in the |
66 | directory aculib for much easier maintenance. | |
cbf54755 | 67 | |
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68 | Only try at most TRYCALLS to dial a site instead of one try |
69 | for each dialer (lost big on systems with many dialers) | |
cbf54755 | 70 | |
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71 | Add ABORT sequence to the expect/send sequence so don't have |
72 | to wait for timeout if can't get through dataswitch. e.g. | |
73 | noao Evening ACU 1200 6021234565 "" \d\r CLASS NOAOUUCP ABORT Down GO \d\r ogin:-\b-ogin: uucplogin word: uucppassword | |
74 | will only call noao in the evening (evening is defined by the phone rates). | |
75 | It will expect nothing and then wait 1 second (\d) and send a carriage return. | |
76 | Look for CLASS, then send NOAOUUCP. From then on, if it sees the word Down | |
77 | before finishing logging in, it will hang up immediately. In the mean time, | |
78 | it looks for GO and if it sees it, delays 1 second and sends a CR. Looks | |
79 | for ogin:, etc. This abort sequence is very useful if you must go through a | |
80 | dataswitch to get to the computer. | |
cbf54755 | 81 | |
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82 | The time field in L.sys now handles "Evening" and "Night" in addition |
83 | to Any, Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa,Su. Evening and Night are defined to | |
84 | be when the phone rates are cheaper. | |
85 | Evening = Wk1700-0800|Sa|Su | |
86 | Night = Any2300-0800|Sa|Su0800-1700 | |
cbf54755 | 87 | |
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88 | The expect/send code now supports: |
89 | \s space | |
90 | \d delay 1 second | |
91 | \r carriage return with no linefeed | |
92 | \b break | |
93 | \c don't send a CR after these characters | |
94 | \xxx the octal character xxx (e.g. \s == \040 | |
cbf54755 | 95 | |
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96 | L-devices now handles "chat" scripts (like HoneyDanber) to get |
97 | through local port selectors and smart modems more easily | |
98 | without mucking up every line of L.sys. See UUAIDs/L-devices for | |
99 | details. | |
cbf54755 | 100 | |
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101 | The 'g' protocol code was clean up a lot and is now almost |
102 | readable. | |
cbf54755 | 103 | |
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104 | If you need a parity other than even (the default) to login to |
105 | another system, you can change it in L.sys by putting in a | |
106 | sequence like "" P_ZERO (expect nothing, send zero parity). | |
107 | Odd Parity P_ODD | |
108 | Even Parity P_EVEN | |
109 | Zero Parity P_ZERO | |
110 | One Parity P_ONE | |
cbf54755 | 111 | |
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112 | If DONTCOPY is defined in uucp.h, uucp will not make a copy |
113 | of the source file by default. (This is the way System 3 does it). | |
cbf54755 | 114 | |
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115 | If an X. request fails, the notification is returned to the |
116 | originator of the request instead of "uucp" on the previous | |
117 | system. | |
cbf54755 | 118 | |
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119 | The man pages are actually accurate! |
120 | ||
121 | If LOGBYSITE is defined, uucp logging is done with | |
122 | a log file per site instead of one LOGFILE. (Like Honey DanBer does) | |
123 | ||
124 | There is a new file (optional) L.aliases that makes life simpler when | |
125 | a site changes it's name. uucp, uux, uucico, etc all check it so | |
126 | when a site is renamed (e.g convex <- parsec) all you have to do is add | |
127 | an entry in L.aliases of the form: | |
128 | newname oldname | |
129 | ||
130 | uucico will not try and resend files it has already sent (when the | |
131 | files are specified in one C. file) | |
132 | ||
133 | Incorporated Bill Sebok's code to dial in and out on the same modem. |