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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: UUCP on BSDI History?
Date: 10 Apr 1996 13:46:51 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes:

> Use Taylor UUCP.  It supports a lot more protocols and it's probably a
> bit more efficient and robust than honeydanber uucp.  It builds without
> incident on 1.0 and 2.0.1 (and FreeBSD 2.0.5 and 2.1).

Only one additional hint: the `i' protocol (oh well, HDB UUCP users
aren't even bothered by it :-) can cause occasional SIGFPE's (due to
an integer divide by zero) when transfering large files simultan-
eously in both directions.  This is caused by a division by the tty
baudrate (ick!).  I hope they will resolve it in a further release.
(People who are bothered by it can get a patch from me.)

Apart from this, i still think UUCP is the only really working batch
transmission protocol, and as such the ideal solution for part-time
connections, even when running over TCP.  Taylor UUCP has no problems
speaking to BSD's uucpd, btw.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j