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
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As quoted from <8712111822.AA04054@decwrl.dec.com> by draper@xxx.dec.com (11-Dec-1987 1321):
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| 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.
| 
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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!
-- 
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