HDB uucp and uport SV/AT (have you tried it?)

[Phil Hughes]

In article <198 at focsys.UUCP>, larry at focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson) writes:

>                                         I thought I'd like to run
> the HDB uucp that uport has on their BBS.  So, I've downloaded it.

> Has anyone installed it? What should I watch out for

I don't have the one from the BBS but got one that I was told would cost
$15 from them.  (It cost $22 with shipping, cod, ...)  I love it.  I wish
it worked.

There is no printed documentation.  It is on the disk.  When you install
the disk, it wipes out your old uucp.  The documentation is all about ATT
dialers and stuff (even though the program dials a Hayes modem fine).
Sequence numbers are stored in hex but uux blows up when a sequence number
has a non-decimal digit in it.  There is no new cu so cu uses the L.sys
and L-devices file even though uucp uses Devices and Systems.

Enough bitching about what I got.  I sent mail to uport about it.  No
answer.  I sent mail to John Plocher at uport.  He said he didn't know
about the problem.  I sent him details.  Someone else on the net sent
me mail saying that he got the same version from uport and it had the
same problems.  I forwarded that to John Plocher.  All of this was about
3 weeks ago.  I give.

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