Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ptsfa!hoptoad!dasys1!eravin From: eravin@dasys1.UUCP (Ed Ravin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: UUCP Documentation Wanted Message-ID: <876@dasys1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 16:18:09 EDT Article-I.D.: dasys1.876 Posted: Thu Jul 23 16:18:09 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 10:51:39 EDT References: <2098@sphinx.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: eravin@dasys1.UUCP (Ed Ravin) Distribution: world Organization: Monongahela Steel Foundry, Covert Action Division Lines: 57 Keywords: UUCP for beginners Summary: Nutshell Library has two good books Xref: mnetor comp.mail.uucp:718 comp.unix.questions:3314 In article <2098@sphinx.uchicago.edu> kat2@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Robby Kates) writes: > > I need detailed and thorough instructions to set up UUCP. A book on UUCP >will be very helpful. Anybody got something ??? Please mail me >title/author/publisher (anything to track it down by). Something that covered >UUCP internals as well would be really great. Check out "Managing UUCP and Usenet", by Grace Todino and Tim O'Reilly, published by: O'Reilly & Associates 981 Chestnut Street Newton, MA 02159 I forget what it costs, either 15 or 30 bucks. Well worth the price if you want cradle-to-grave instructions for UUCP. Here's some of the table of contents for the first few chapters: 1: How UUCP works Behind the Scenes Setting Up a Link Files and Directories UUCP Login ID's 2: The Physical Connection Building Serial Cables Configuring Serial Ports Communications Settings Testing the Line (and more chapter headings...) 3: Setting up a UUCP Link 4: Making Sure the Link Works 5: Access and Security Considerations 6: UUCP Administration The next three chapters explain Usenet and Netnews for administrators. These are real books; not the baby food that you find in popular bookstores these days ("Unix for Yuppies" by Donna Nonuhtin). The authors also cover most known flavors of UUCP. They describe the "generic" system V and then how Xenix, Berkely, HoneyDanBer (also known as BNU for Basic Networking Utilties) and Version 2 differ. The publisher was a little slow shipping us our copy: you might want to ask them when they expect to ship your order. They also have a companion volume, called "Using UUCP and Usenet", which I haven't looked at yet but it too is probably worthwhile. -- Ed -- Ed Ravin eravin@dasys1.uucp Programmer-at-Large (a.k.a. cmcl2!cucard!dasys1!eravin) Definitize what the procedural aspects of the American assumption should be.