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In article <1990Sep11.123725.8462@news.clarkson.edu> help@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended Help Desk) writes:
}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.

Just a footnote here.

When we did uupc we put everything into one package because we where not
sure that we would be able to find a system() call everywhere (like on the
Mac, Atari, etc). So even though the MS-DOS version could have had separate
programs we made it all in one for portability.

We would far prefer to have had separate programs allowing them to be
extended.


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