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From article <142159@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, by argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller):
> Does uupc have its own user agent front end?  Why?

Yes.  Because it always had one (at least since it was called UUPC.)
dcp may have gottom posted to the net before it was UUPC, but UUPC and
UUPC/extended ALWAYS have had an MUA.

> The "features" listed here are all available in Mush and Mush
> works with (is built for) UUPC on DOS and OS/2 machines.
> I don't know a lot (anything) about the PC environment,
> especially with respect to uupc, but if I may enquire to the
> authors: why don't you just have UUPC do the mail transfer
> and distribute Mush as the user agent for the program?

Because UUPC/extended is a self-contained package.  UUPC existed for
several years before the back-end was borrowed for Mush or anything
else.

I keep the UUPC/extended MUA up to date because UUPC/Extended is the
smallest of the working DOS UUCP packages, and I'm too lazy to switch.
My limited understand of Mush is that it is bigger.

Mush used the the dcp component of UUPC (the UUPC back end), and
ignored the UUPC front-end; perfectly okay, but at the same time, I
*wish* they didn't call it UUPC; it confuses people.  (As I said, the
back end has its own name, "dcp".)  

I don't even know what version of dcp is used for Mush; however, since I
updated dcp in the latest UUPC/extended release, running Mush/dcp and
UUPC/extended 1.08 on the same machine is a bad idea because of
different spool directory formats.

Drew Derbyshire

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