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- From: rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com (Richard Todd)
- Subject: Re: uAccess 1.62
- Message-ID: <C1GCw0.9v9@servalan.servalan.com>
- Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
- References: <TRSNYDER.93Jan21152135@vf0031.mcs.drexel.edu> <9301212139.AA09877@chaos.intercon.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:28:33 GMT
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- amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
- >trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder) writes:
- >> (I was interested in the product; now I'm not. If I'm going to
- >> spend $400 for UUCP, I'll save up a little more, and get MachTen or A/
- >> UX, and do real UUCP, with real news/mail, etc....)
-
- >Those are certainly reasonable options. Just out of curiousity, though, what
- >do you mean by "real"? This is *not* a trick question--you're the first
-
- There is no UUCP but the Real UUCP, and Ian Taylor is its prophet :-).
-
- Seriously, there's been a whole lot of development going on in the Unix UUCP
- world of late, mostly due to the efforts of Ian Taylor and the guys on the
- taylor-uucp mailing list. Remember how people have been asking for years
- about why someone didn't modify UUCP to do simultaneous bidirectional file
- transfers and automatic resumption of interrupted downloads? Well, we've
- got it now. And the Taylor UUCP configuration file setup is an amazing advance
- on anything I've seen before in the UUCP world.
-
- >person I've run into who'd evidently rather run UNIX-style UUCP/mail/news on
- >a Macintosh than run a native Mac application with a Mac user interface.
- >Not to mention the difference in disk space requirements :)...
-
- Well, given that I've been running UNIX-style UUCP/mail/news on a Mac about
- as long as it's been possible to do so, I'd have to disagree. Some of us
- just prefer the Unix-style programs such as "mush" or "nn". Not to mention
- other neat goodies like "deliver": having mail automatically sent to one
- of several folders, or having messages from your favorite mailing lists
- automatically gatewayed into local newsgroups, all done under a shell
- script under your control. Plus, as others have mentioned, all the new
- stuff like MIME etc. is coming out first for Unix, and only later seems
- to make it to the MSDOS/MacOS worlds.
-
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