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	I've performed the first step of the porting process for uuslave.
	I now have a version which compiles with Manx 3.20 (haven't got
	my update yet).

	The file SQM""::PERFD1$:[JMSYNGE.PUBLIC.UUSLAVE]PHASE0.DIFFS
	contains the result of the running the Manx diff command:

	DIFF > PHASE0.DIFFS UUSLAVE.HOPTOAD UUSLAVE.C

	where UUSLAVE.HOPTOAD is the original version and UUSLAVE.C is
	the version I'm busy hacking on.

	The next step is to produce the low level io routines needed to
	support the Amiga serial device.  I'm well on the way to completing
	this, though I've yet to try any compiling.  I'm placing all the
	Amiga specific routines into a seperate file so as to make as few
	modifications as possible to the original file.

	I had a chat with a fellow Amigan today and realized that most
	people might not understand the purpose of uuslave and why they
	might want it on the Amiga.

	Unix machines which are not on the same ethernet use the uucp
	(Unix to Unix Copy Program) protocol for the transfer of files,
	mail and Usenet news. uucp is both a program and a protocol.
	The program is like VMS COPY in that it allows you to copy files
	from one place to another within the network.  The basic difference
	is that where VMS has a single command to do all copying (local
	and network), Unix has several: cp (local) and uucp (network) for
	most systems; ftp for ARPAnet; and rcp for BSD Unix over an ethernet.

	My interest in uuslave stems from the following desire: I want to move
	files between my VAX at work and my Amiga at home in as effortless a
	manner as possible.  I already have some commands and directories set
	up on the VAX to make it easy to isolate those files I wish to transfer
	into a directory.

	The more complex part is automating the telephone call.  I wish to be
	able to set up a job to run regularly, on either the Amiga or the VAX,
	which would call the other machine an transfer all the files, then 
	delete them from the spool directory.

	I envision a two step process.  First is getting uuslave to run at home
	on the Amiga.  That done, I could use an Ultrix machine to handle the
	regular calling of the Amiga, and use DECnet to transfer files from
	the VMS machine to the Ultrix machine.

	The second step would be to get uuslave going on a VMS machine.
	Then I'd have no need for the Ultrix machine, and could go directly
	from one to the other.

	Of course another benifit of this is that I'd have a machine which
	is compatible with the uucp network, allowing me the possibility of
	a mail connection or newsfeed.

	I've thought of other ways of automating the transfer process, but
	have implemented none of them.  Have any of you got an automated,
	or semi-automated setup?

James.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Path: decwrl!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!ames!cit-vax!usc-oberon!sdcrdcf!burdvax!wpl
Subject: UUSLAVE for the amiga
Posted: 28 Mar 87 06:19:02 GMT
Organization: Unisys/Paoli Research Center, Paoli, PA
 
 
I am almost done porting uuslave to the amiga.  I have been porting
it for awhile, so I think I am ahead of most of the people on the net.
If you are working on uuslave please send me a message, and I will mail
you my latest copy.  If anyone has done any work, please mail me 
a copy of your uuslave.   Let not get 10 different version.  I am 
willing to act as merger/manager of the amiga uuslave.
 
 
-- 
William P Loftus			UUCP:   [email protected]
Unisys/Paoli Research Center		ARPA: 	[email protected]
PO Box 517				BITNET: 202527899@VUVAXCOM
Paoli, PA 19301                         215-648-7222 (work) 215-649-0633 (home)

Re: .3
	The version of uuslave mentioned in the previous article
	is now in my uuslave directory:

	SQM""::PERFD1$:[JMSYNGE.PUBLIC.UUSLAVE]UUSLAVE.WPL

	The author, William Loftus, claims it is running on the Amiga, and
	almost debugged.  I've yet to download it and test this.

James