3.0) Principal Utilities
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This article is from the AmigaUUCP
FAQ, by Marc SCHAEFER,
3.0) Principal Utilities
AmigaUUCP is made up of a plethora of utilities. Many of the utilities mimic their UNIX counterparts but it should be noted that none are really based on actual UNIX C code except for those sections still existing from the original GNU/UUPC port.
Only the major utilities are listed below:
UUCico
UUCico is the workhorse of the system. It calls your feed site via the modem and transfers both outgoing and incoming mail and news. This mail and news will have been previously stored by you or your feed site.
It has been updated a lot, mainly for reliability reasons. Last version is uucico_sd3.lha.
Getty
Getty handles incoming calls. It allows remote login (interactive and uucico logins).
Sendmail/RMail
Sendmail/RMail is the workhorse of the MAIL subsystem. The two utilities are actually the same executable just renamed and I will refer to them collectively as 'sendmail' from now on.
Sendmail handles incoming mail, breaking it apart and sending it to the appropriate mailbox, or re-queueing it if it is simply passing through your system to another system down the line. Sendmail deals with any aliases you might have defined and also with any domains you have defined for routing email.
Sendmail also handles, under the aegis of 'rmail', all incoming mail.
RNews
RNews handles all incoming news, including local news you send out. It breaks apart compressed batches and creates an individual file for each article in the UUNEWS: directory. It also creates a directory for each newsgroup. A lot of patches have been made to increase reliability, and speed.
BatchNews
Batchnews compresses and batches any news you have sent posted into a single batch file, making its transfer to your feed that much more efficient. Read the Newssetup.doc in the distribution for more information on how to set up news.
DMail DMail is the amiga's mail shell. It scans your mail box and presents mail in an orderly fashion, allowing you to reply to the mail and do other operations.
DNews DNews is the amiga's news reader. It is not quite as sophisticated as RN but is getting there. It sports an intuition windowing system to make it easy to scan through news.
UUcp UUcp (the command) can be used to copy files from your local system to some of your neighbours. Note that the way it is implemented on the AmigaUUCP system is a little different than in Unix. In Unix, as soon as the uucp command has been executed, a copy of the implied file is done in a data file in the spool directory. Then uucico copies it to the other unix system that extracts the file from the data file. In AmigaUUCP, if sending the file is only read while UUCico is online, and that explains why if you UUCP a file which path is NOT authorized in the UULIB:Security file, there will be an error while online. This prevents the ability to forward the file to another host. However most of the time in UNIX, uucp is very restricted. AmigaUUCP does not allow directory-deep file send. For sending to a far site, BMS is more convenient.
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