Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!uport!plocher From: plocher@uport.UUCP (John Plocher) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: HDB uucp and uport SV/AT (have you tried it?) Yes! Message-ID: <427@uport.UUCP> Date: 20 Aug 88 05:56:23 GMT References: <198@focsys.UUCP> <1418@ssc.UUCP> Reply-To: plocher@uport.UUCP (John Plocher) Organization: Microport Systems, Scotts Valley, CA Lines: 47 In article <1418@ssc.UUCP> fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes: >There is no printed documentation. It is on the disk. So print it out. That is why we provided it. > When you install the disk, it wipes out your old uucp. Sure. What do you expect, you *are* upgrading your uucp stuff. It *should* wipe out the old stuff. It has a conversion script which converts the old L.sys and L.devices files into the HDB versions; it replaces uucico and friends because it *is* a new version! You *did* do a backup first, didn't you? :-) >dialers and stuff (even though the program dials a Hayes modem fine). >Sequence numbers are stored in hex but uux blows up when a sequence number >has a non-decimal digit in it. There is no new cu so cu uses the L.sys >and L-devices file even though uucp uses Devices and Systems. The version we are shipping now does not have any of these problems - I know because I checked. There may have been other versions, I don't know (and can't say) about them. If yours has problems, call Tech Support, please. We will help, I promise. >Enough bitching about what I got. I sent mail to uport about it. No >answer. I sent mail to John Plocher at uport. He said he didn't know >about the problem. I sent him details. Someone else on the net sent And I looked into it (see above). I also sent you replies with all this info in them. Since it seems you didn't get it, would you please call me. Thanks. >I give. I don't. >-- >Phil uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl -John Plocher Microport systems PS, to ALL If you send me email, please include a phone number and (if appropriate) your address. I can't do much to help if all my replies bounce because of email problems...