uucp over TCP/IP for SCO - available soon

[Chip Rosenthal]

I have a pair of programs nearly complete to implement uucp over
SCO/Lachman TCP/IP.  The programs are `uucpd' and `uucpm' - daemons
for the slave and master uucico network processes, respectively.

`uucpd' is a port of the Berkeley uucp daemon.  It has been tested
under both XENIX (with TCP 1.0) and UNIX (with TCP 1.1).  Yeah...it
supports the Secureware nonsense.  It also supports shadow password
files (e.g. the login suite by John Haugh).  This daemon is intended
to be run under inetd, by an /etc/inetd.conf line similar to:

	uucp	stream	tcp	nowait	root	/etc/local/uucpd uucpd

The other half, `uucpm' is a daemon which is started at system boot
time. For example, you would start it with a command something like:

	/etc/local/uucpm /dev/ptyp7

The above command would make the device `/dev/ttyp7' available for
uucp transfers.  To use it, you would need a /usr/lib/uucp/Devices
entry such as:

	TCPIP ttyp7 - 19200 direct

and a /usr/lib/uucp/Systems entry such as:

	coldsnap Any TCPIP Any - "" coldsnap gin: NAME word: PASSWORD
				 ^^^^^^^^^^^

Note how the system name is passed to the tty in the chat script.
The `uucpm' daemon receives this name and establishes the socket to
the remote `uucpd'.

These programs are very rough and largely untested - so I'd prefer to
offer them to folks on a `beta-test' status.  I'm hoping they will be
cleaned up enough to distribute by the end of this weekend.  If you'd
be interested in receiving a copy when this stuff is ready, feel free
to drop me a line.  In your request, (1) please let me know what kind
of system you plan to run these on, (2) what kind of system(s) you
plan to connect to, and (3) indicate that you have obtained the crypt
library.  The crypt() call is available from SCO - but is not distributed
with the system.  You will need it in order to compile `uucpd'.

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Unicom Systems Development      512-482-8260   |    loud, Mr. Collins.