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- From: Michael Smith <miff@apanix.apana.org.au>
- Subject: Various Taylor hackings
- Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 19:56:10 +0930 (CST)
- In-Reply-To: <9405241748.AA00527@jelal.north.de> from "Juergen Lock" at May 24, 94 07:48:30 pm
-
-
- (I've been too sick to do any work lately, so sorry if I'm late
- here as well)
-
- > why? the above is what i did on 1.03, still works here every day...
- >i can type `uucico -ssomebox' and it forks itself in background like any
- >other daemon.
- >
- >> This will reduce the memory
- >> fragmentation problems as well.
- >
- > no thats a different reason, not much to do with tfork. (and in fact
- >i'm hacking just this in mint now, wait for the diffs... ;)
-
- Hmm. I must be misunderstanding something here - anyway, how does init
- do this?
-
- >> That's an issue - although the timeouts have been reasonably effective.
- >
- > and then theres also DTR on modem2, or sending breaks...
-
- I tell a lie, actually, I don't have any timeouts or carrier detection,
- big boo-hoo. Have to fix that one I guess.
-
- > is that the minix one? does it have a real history at least? i had a
- >(non-mint) port of mnews first, until i went for cnews-xt... :)
-
- Hmm, I tried to find cnews, to no avail. This is ex-minix, now linux
- and coherent.
-
- > well the tty situation hasn't improved much yet... and i guess
- >for the i protocol to get decent thruput we still need the hacks
- >in fastread+fastwrite, i already needed them for g... :(
-
- Nope, not at all... I get better than 1600cps using the g-proto with
- uucico configured to use stdio. (modem2, 38k4 fixed, v42/v42bis modem)
- (similar figures with the i-proto)
-
- And with that running, you get a very occasional lurch (you can type
- through it without bothering) when uucico goes to the disk. I've built
- wnews with that running, and the throughput status don't show it at all.
-
- > i have an old hack of smail 2.5, should be enough for a small uucp site...
- >even can do batched-SMTP. :)
-
- Biggest problem I can see with smail2.5 is that it's map-based, correct?
-
- > Juergen
-
-
- --
- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey #
- # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' #
- # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental #
- # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #
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