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- from: venta@i2ack.sublink.org (Paolo Ventafridda)
- subject: v15i010: RNALIB 2.0, Mail Server
- Sender: allbery@uunet.UU.NET (Brandon S. Allbery - comp.sources.misc)
-
- Posting-number: Volume 15, Issue 10
- Submitted-by: venta@i2ack.sublink.org (Paolo Ventafridda)
- Archive-name: rnalib2/part00
-
- Hello Brandon!
-
- Inside comp.sources.misc of Aug 1989 there was RNA 1.0, a tiny but
- useful server based on e-mail.
- Since then, i've been working with a friend on the 2.0 release, which
- is finally ready.
-
- RNA 2.0 is an advanced mail-server which allows remote uucp users
- to ask for text or binary files using ordinary email.
- Rnalib can deal with compress/uuencode/btoa/uusend/uucp: a user can
- ask for a file to be compressed and shipped through uucp instead
- of e-mail, which is the default.
- RNA handles 'libraries', i.e. directories (well, two libraries can
- share the same directory, but that's part of the docs); it also
- tries to handle headers following rfc822, and has a bunch of neat
- features which someone might find useful.
- This is an example of request:
- @@ please send RNA from netware using compress-btoa through e-mail
-
- RNA is written in Bourne Shell; it's over 1100 lines of pretty
- hard code (30K without comments and blank lines). It doesn't use
- 'awk'; should run on almost any machine but 286s (the shell would die).
- I'll support it as much as i can; new versions are already coming out,
- but will apply as patches to this working release.
-
-
- I hope you accept it for sources.unix or sources.misc.
- Many greetings and thanks for your always appreciated work,
-
- Paolo Ventafridda
- <venta@i2ack.sublink.org>
-
-
-