Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: problems with vanilla v3.51 uucp on 3b1 Message-ID: <6808@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 17 Dec 87 04:20:42 GMT References: <8712111822.AA04054@decwrl.dec.com> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.att Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 22 As quoted from <8712111822.AA04054@decwrl.dec.com> by draper@xxx.dec.com (11-Dec-1987 1321): +--------------- | am i being incompetant, or were the man entries for | uucp/uux/uupick/uusend/uustat/uuclean/uucico and the one | "high-level" chapter in the programmer's manual the only | information about uucp in the 3.51 doc set??? if so, || i see no excuse for that. i realize this is a "user-friendly" | system with menu's for editting the L[.-]* files, but a few | pages on the file formats should be in the docs. i had to | go the the docs on another system to understand them. | +--------------- How true. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the System V/386 docs on a local system I was configuring for UUCP documented not only these files, but also gave a fairly comprehensive description of C. and X. files. *That* is what *ought* be shipped with UUCP! -- Brandon S. Allbery necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu {hoptoad,harvard!necntc,cbosgd,sun!mandrill!hal,uunet!hnsurg3}!ncoast!allbery Moderator of comp.sources.misc