Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: 3B1 vs. 7300, uucp/mail Fight, Round One Message-ID: <9451@cup.portal.com> Date: 26 Sep 88 00:56:08 GMT References: <9377@cup.portal.com> <10286@s.ms.uky.edu> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 15 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.2826 A lot of useful suggestions have arrive re: my plight of getting two systems to each be able to call the other (and avoiding the herald vs. login "fight"). I intend summarizing all along with a description of what finally functions. Among the suggestions: 1) get HDB (aka BNU); the problem has been solved 2) continue with one system as CALLER and the other as HOST, and have the CALLER ``poll'' the HOST periodically. Item (2) seems interesting; how does one ``poll'' the other system in order for material there destined for the CALLER be transferred? This requires more than just a crontab entry which calls the other system, right?