UUCP for the IBM-PC

[lauren%lbl-csam at vortex.UUCP]

From:  Lauren Weinstein <vortex!lauren at lbl-csam>

Just in case there is possible interest, I am currently beginning
an effort to port my UUCP system over to various IBM-PC operating
systems.  (The UUCP system to which I refer is the one that I wrote
from scratch which is not based in any manner on Unix source code, and
which currently supports my "vortex" UUCP site.)  I don't have an IBM-PC
around here, so someone else's unit will be used for development.
The first implementations will probably be for the MSDOS systems, with
Coherent later on (I don't currently know anybody locally running Coherent).  

Given that my UUCP is already completely written and debugged (and has 
handled many tens of thousands of files for vortex), the actual port to
these other systems appears to be comparatively straightforward, though
there are a couple of technical issues that have required some 
careful thought.  It appears that, in particular, an IBM-PC-based
"slave" UUCP unit (where another system would call the IBM-PC) will
be easy to bring up in a hurry.

Don't ask me about availability yet.  However, I would appreciate hearing
from people who have any interest in such a project, so that I can judge
the amount of effort (time) I should put into this work.

Thanks much.

--Lauren--

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