Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Path: utzoo!utgpu!dtinker
From: dtinker@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (David Tinker)
Subject: Re: Coherent UUCP <---> Xenix UUCP ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.191749.16251@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <1991Apr6.133259.23350@contact.uucp>
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Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1991 19:17:49 GMT

rrwood@contact.uucp (roy wood) writes:

> I'm trying to get my Coherent system talking with a Xenix-based system.
> I've been given a UUCP user-id and password for the Xenix system, and I've
> convinced uucico that it knows how to use the modem and call up the other
> system; however, things start to crap out after the two systems connect.
> 
> Is the Coherent UUCP package compatible with standard UUCP?  Or is it some
> mutant variation that only works with Coherent systems?
 
As far as I know, Coherent UUCP is completely standard.

> If anyone has managed to make their Coherent system talk to another non-
> Coherent system, I'd like to hear about it.  Did you use the default UUCP
> routines, or port something over to Coherent?
 
"blunile" is connected to Usenet/uunet through "aimed", a site running
SCO XENIX R2.3.2 on an Intel 386-25;  I connect to their Telebit Trailblazer
using a 2400 baud modem.  I had absolutely no trouble getting the link up
and running.  Here is an L.sys template that ought to work:

<site> Any ACU 2400 5551212 ogin:-\r-ogin:-\r-ogin: <uident> word: <password>

where <site> is the host site, <uident> is your site's id with "u" prefixed,
and <password> is your password on the host site.  You *did* remember to ask
your host to give you a UUCP login name starting with the letter "u", right?

> Oh-- and on that note, would someone be so kind as to post the ported
> smail/rn package to this group?  I can't get at piggy for some reason,
 
You must be joking!  The sizes of the compressed tar files are:
         111286  smail.tar.Z
         373735  rn.tar.Z
Since they would have to be posted in ASCII form (maybe uuencoded), multiply
these numbers by 2 to 3!  You think your sysadmin is peeved *now* !!?!  (:-)
Why not download them by uucp from Mark Williams' mwcbbs - complete instruc-
tions are included with Coherent 3.10r.  Anyway, "rn" is not needed for smail,
it's part of the Cnews package which you *don't* want, trust me!

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