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From: eravin@dasys1.UUCP (Ed Ravin)
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Subject: Re: UUCP Documentation Wanted
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Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 16:18:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 23 16:18:09 1987
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Keywords: UUCP for beginners
Summary: Nutshell Library has two good books
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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)

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