UUCP Job Grading

[dave at lsuc.UUCP]

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.

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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