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1.1 root 1: List of Changes to UUCP
2: CHANGES 5.7 86/02/12
3:
4: Added support for Eunice.
5:
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: Dec DF112
13: 4.2BSD style networking on top of tcp/ip ('t' protocol)
14: X.25/PAD support ('f' protocol)
15: Novation
16: Penril
17: Hayes 2400 Smartmodem
18: Concord Data Systems CDS 224
19: ATT 2224 2400 baud modem
20:
21: Running uucico with debugging on requires read access to L.sys.
22:
23: If "NOSTRANGERS" is defined in uucp.h, the remote site
24: must be in you L.sys or the call will be rejected.
25:
26: Lock files may be kept in a subdirectory if desired.
27:
28: STST files are kept in a subdirectory.
29:
30: CORRUPT subdirectory contains corrupted C. and X. files that could
31: not be processed. (Instead of just exiting)
32:
33: You can specify a maximum grade to send either on the command line (-gX)
34: or in the L.sys file (Any/C|Evening will only send class C [usually
35: mail] or higher during the day and will send everything in the evening)
36: See UUAIDS/L.sys for examples.
37:
38: L.sys (and any of the files in lib/uucp) can contain comments by
39: putting a # as the first character on a line. Lines may be
40: continued by placing a \ as the last character of the line.
41:
42: -R flag reverses role. (Lets the remote system be master first instead
43: of slave)
44:
45: -L flag only calls "local" sites. Local sites are those sites having
46: one of LOCAL,TCP or DIRECT in the ACU field of L.sys.
47:
48: If /etc/nologin is present (usually created by a graceful shutdown),
49: uucico and uuxqt will gracefully exit instead of getting killed
50: off when the system goes down.
51:
52: Does an exponential backoff on retry time if call fails instead
53: of always waiting the default 5 minutes. The default may be
54: overridden by adding ",TIME" to the time field in L.sys. e.g.
55: "seismo Any,2" will use a default retry time of 2 minutes.
56:
57: If uucico receives a SIGFPE while running, it will toggle debugging
58: on and off.
59:
60: Better status messages provided for uustat.
61:
62: New program uuq to give more decriptive information on status of
63: jobs in uucp queue.
64:
65: Don't send files to remote system if it is returning out of
66: temp space error.
67:
68: Correctly does the closing hangup sequence.
69:
70: condevs.c was broken into a file for each dialer in the
71: directory aculib for much easier maintenance.
72:
73: Only try at most TRYCALLS to dial a site instead of one try
74: for each dialer (lost big on systems with many dialers)
75:
76: Add ABORT sequence to the expect/send sequence so don't have
77: to wait for timeout if can't get through dataswitch. e.g.
78: noao Evening ACU 1200 6021234565 "" \d\r CLASS NOAOUUCP ABORT Down GO \d\r ogin:-\b-ogin: uucplogin word: uucppassword
79: will only call noao in the evening (evening is defined by the phone rates).
80: It will expect nothing and then wait 1 second (\d) and send a carriage return.
81: Look for CLASS, then send NOAOUUCP. From then on, if it sees the word Down
82: before finishing logging in, it will hang up immediately. In the mean time,
83: it looks for GO and if it sees it, delays 1 second and sends a CR. Looks
84: for ogin:, etc. This abort sequence is very useful if you must go through a
85: dataswitch to get to the computer.
86:
87: The time field in L.sys now handles "Evening" and "Night" in addition
88: to Any, Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa,Su. Evening and Night are defined to
89: be when the phone rates are cheaper.
90: Evening = Wk1700-0800|Sa|Su
91: Night = Any2300-0800|Sa|Su0800-1700
92:
93: The expect/send code now supports:
94: \s space
95: \d delay 1 second
96: \r carriage return with no linefeed
97: \b break
98: \c don't send a CR after these characters
99: \xxx the octal character xxx (e.g. \s == \040
100:
101: L-devices now handles "chat" scripts (like HoneyDanber) to get
102: through local port selectors and smart modems more easily
103: without mucking up every line of L.sys. See UUAIDs/L-devices for
104: details.
105:
106: The 'g' protocol code was cleaned up a lot and is now almost
107: readable.
108:
109: If you need a parity other than even (the default) to login to
110: another system, you can change it in L.sys by putting in a
111: sequence like "" P_ZERO (expect nothing, send zero parity).
112: Odd Parity P_ODD
113: Even Parity P_EVEN
114: Zero Parity P_ZERO
115: One Parity P_ONE
116:
117: If DONTCOPY is defined in uucp.h, uucp will not make a copy
118: of the source file by default. (This is the way System 3 does it).
119:
120: If an X. request fails, the notification is returned to the
121: originator of the request instead of "uucp" on the previous
122: system.
123:
124: The man pages are actually accurate!
125:
126: If LOGBYSITE is defined, uucp logging is done with
127: a log file per site instead of one LOGFILE. (Like Honey DanBer does)
128:
129: There is a new file (optional) L.aliases that makes life simpler when
130: a site changes it's name. uucp, uux, uucico, etc all check it so
131: when a site is renamed (e.g convex <- parsec) all you have to do is add
132: an entry in L.aliases of the form:
133: newname oldname
134:
135: uucico will not try and resend files it has already sent (when the
136: files are specified in one C. file)
137:
138: Incorporated Bill Sebok's code to dial in and out on the same modem.
139: NOTE: acucntrl is heavily Vax/4.xbsd specific and will require work to
140: run on any other system.
141:
142: For compatibility with Honey DanBer, in the Date fields of L.sys,
143: | was changed to , (| is supported, but not encouraged)
144: , was changed to ; (to allow , to be the date seperator)
145:
146: For Honey DanBer compatibility, the Grade flag is now passed as
147: -vgrade=X instead of the old -pX
148:
149: Don't truncate site names to 7 characters (truncate to 14 if
150: anyone gets that absurd) for HDB compatibility. L.aliases may
151: be used to map host with longer names in L.sys to 7 character
152: names that some hosts send. Entries should be
153:
154: fullname 7-char-name
155:
156: You can specify a time for the expect send sequences with ~ instead
157: of getting the default MAXMSGTIME. E.g.
158: system Any ACU 1200 1234567 ogin~20-\r-ogin~10-\b-ogin user password pw
159: will look for ogin for 20 seconds, send CR, look for ogin for 10
160: seconds, send a BREAK and look for ogin for MAXMSGTIME seconds
161:
162: Added code to support GTEs PC Pursuit service. It's mainly the handling of the
163: dialback they use.
164:
165: Added time "NonPeak" for Tymnet/Telenet services that charge lower
166: rates from 6pm-7am M-F and Sat & Sun.
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