🚀 go-pugleaf

Once again, I want to remind people about some things you must
remember when accessing the UUCP'able archives on osu-cis.

[1] You cannot make multi-file requests in a single uucp(1) command
with quoted metacharacters.  That is, don't try to do this:
	uucp osu-cis!~/SomePackage/XXXXX-part-\* /usr/tmp
Use of metacharacters (*, ?, []) in uucp(1) causes it to use uux to
queue up a uucp command to osu-cis, in order that metacharacter
expansion can happen on osu-cis.  We don't support remote execution of
uucp for what should be transparently obvious reasons.

[2] Don't forget the syntax: the ls-lR.Z file you can pick up
describes lots of things you can pick up, but remember that you must
prefix all paths with ~/ when picking them up.  That is,
	uucp osu-cis!doc/usd/08.mh/tmac.e /usr/spool/uucppublic
doesn't work, but
	uucp osu-cis!~/doc/usd/08.mh/tmac.e /usr/spool/uucppublic
does.

[3] The directory in which you want things to land on your system must
be writable by uucp.  Usually this means it must have 777 permissions,
or else uucp will at best put them somewhere else (probably
/usr/spool/uucppublic) or else will flatly refuse to perform the copy
for you.  Execution of
	uucp osu-cis!~/SomePackage/stuff-part-aa ~
is almost certain to fail.

[4] If you must write mail to us to get help, MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN
GET BACK TO YOU.  Keep in mind that osu-cis knows almost none of the
systems which call it.  So I can't write mail back to yoursystem!you
because my Systems file doesn't list yoursystem.  Worse, a lot of the
systems calling osu-cis are not registered, so even rerouting by smail
won't cut it.  In particular, there is a problem system out there
called "robecdc," on which a user "ghost" lives who has been writing
me mail.  I can't get mail back to this person, and I tire of seeing
such mail.

I hope I'm not coming across rudely here, but the rules should be
either intuitively obvious to anyone with even minimal skill in using
UUCP, or obvious due to having been explicitly listed in
GNU.how-to-get.

Cheers,
--Karl