Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!allegra!eagle!harpo!utah-cs!lepreau From: lepreau@utah-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Order of file sending by UUCP Message-ID: <1645@utah-cs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Jun-83 06:18:25 EDT Article-I.D.: utah-cs.1645 Posted: Thu Jun 2 06:18:25 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jun-83 00:40:33 EDT References: <43@vortex.UUCP> spanky.325 Lines: 8 Although I've managed to avoid looking at uucp very deeply, I believe that there is a third reason that uucp itself can deliver files out of order. Although the C. files are sorted, they are only sorted in chunks-- i.e., only LLEN C. files in the uucp dir are read, sorted, and processed at a time. The 4.1bsd distribution version had an LLEN of 20; for various reasons we upped it here to 50. (anlwrk.c) -Jay Lepreau