UUCP Job Grading

[josh at hi.UUCP]

In article <1613 at lsuc.UUCP> dave at lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
}In article <899 at sonne.hi.uucp> josh at hi.unm@hc.dspo.gov (Josh Siegel) writes:
}>Another solution could be the following.  Assuming you have two phone
}>lines, put two entries into your uucp/L.sys file for a machine.  One
}>entry could be called X.slow and one could be called X.  All news can
}>be sent to X.slow and mail passed onto X.  This means that even while
}>transfering news, you can have your machine call up X again and
}>transfer mail.
}
}Watch out for two problems if you try this:
}(a) if you don't change how your machine identifies itself when
}    calling X while a call to X.slow is in progress, it will immediately
}    run up against a LCK..yourname on the other side and exit.
}(b) if you have a version of UUCP which checks the remote site name
}    on connection, and you call it as X.slow while it identifies
}    itself as X, the call will fail.
}

Good point.  Even my software does this.  Boy... don't I
 feel like a fool.. :-)

			--Josh Siegel
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