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1.1     ! root        1: From daemon Fri May 31 07:13:20 1991 CDT
        !             2: From mwcbbs!support  Fri May 31 07:45:04 1991 remote from mwc
        !             3: Received: by romana (mail v 2.20)
        !             4:        id AA1246; 31 May 91 07:13:20
        !             5: Received: by mwc.com (smail2.5-coherent) id AA19553; 31 May 91 07:45:04 
        !             6: Message-Id: <9105310740.AA19885.V2.20.mwcbbs@>
        !             7: Date: 31 May 91 07:40:34
        !             8: From: mwcbbs!support (MWC Coherent Support)
        !             9: To: mwc!bob digest
        !            10: Organization: 
        !            11: X-Mailer: CoMB 1.29 [Coherent Mailbox]
        !            12: Subject: Re: 
        !            13: >>From uucp Sat May 25 12:01:12 1991 CDT
        !            14: >>From root Sat May 25 12:55:00 1991 EDT remote from damnally
        !            15: >>Received: by mwcbbs (mail v 2.20)
        !            16: >>     id AA28752; 25 May 91 12:01:12
        !            17: >>Message-Id: <[email protected]>
        !            18: >>Date: 25 May 91 12:55:00
        !            19: >>From: damnally!root (Superuser)
        !            20: >>To: mwcbbs!support
        !            21: >>
        !            22: >>
        !            23: >>David Weingart
        !            24: >>400 Fulton St., #10B
        !            25: >>Farmingdale, NY  11735
        !            26: >>Voice:  (516) 420-1814
        !            27: >>Internet: [email protected]
        !            28: >>Coherent 3.1.0 serial number 140916691
        !            29: >>
        !            30: >>Simple kwes on UUCP communications (especially to mwcbbs)
        !            31: >>
        !            32: >>If I'm doing UUCP and have an allowable time set for datacom (say, after
        !            33: >>11pm, when the rates are cheaper), and I have several requests to the bbs
        !            34: >>(f'rinstance, I have a letter to mail to mwcbbs!support, I have updates to
        !            35: >>d/l, I have files to submit), will UUCP make the call once and perform all
        !            36: >>the actions I want, or will it do everthing in it's own separate call?
        !            37: >>
        !            38: >>i.e.
        !            39: >>
        !            40: >>Call mwcbbs to mail the letter
        !            41: >>Hangup
        !            42: >>Call mwcbbs to d/l everything I requested
        !            43: >>Hangup
        !            44: >>Call mwcbbs to u/l a submission
        !            45: >>Hangup
        !            46: >>
        !            47: >>or instead
        !            48: >>
        !            49: >>Call mwcbbs
        !            50: >>Mail the letter
        !            51: >>d/l requested software
        !            52: >>u/l submission
        !            53: >>Hangup
        !            54: 
        !            55: 
        !            56: The latter will take place. All file transfer requests are kept in the
        !            57: directory /usr/spool/uucp/SITENAME_TO_BE_CALLED and will be be processed
        !            58: when your site connects to the site being called.
        !            59: 
        !            60: >>The second is clearly more cost effective, but I'm kind of scared to try
        !            61: >>this on long-distance rates without knowing the answer...just getting
        !            62: >>everything set up was pretty costly in terms of phone time, even late
        !            63: >>at night.
        !            64: >>
        !            65: >>Third kwes...is there any way to make working backup copies of the
        !            66: >>distribution diskettes so I can store them off-site and still have
        !            67: >>a set ready to go at all times?
        !            68: 
        !            69: You can use the dd command to copy an image of a diskette to a file on the
        !            70: hard drive and once again to copy the file from the hard drive back out
        !            71: to a blank, formatted floppy disk. There are files on mwcbbs which will
        !            72: show you how to do this.
        !            73: 
        !            74: >>Fourth, a possible bug in UUCP (which may have already been fixed in the
        !            75: >>updates that I haven't d/l'ed yet.  uuinstall may corrup L.sys by removing
        !            76: >>the password field (I'm not sure if there's enough space on the screen for
        !            77: >>it or what, but it doesn't show and wasn't there when I went into L.sys
        !            78: >>manually).  This caused no end of grief as I tried to get UUCP to function
        !            79: >>and call  mwcbbs.
        !            80: 
        !            81: This is a well known problem to us. The 3.2 up and coming update to COHERENT
        !            82: will fix this problem.
        !            83: 
        !            84: >>Thanks in advance for the information.
        !            85: >>
        !            86: 

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