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SSPS & Smarter UUCP.

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From: Karl J. Vesterling
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:46
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SSPS - Smarter Serial Port Software

	Myself and the Co-Admin of exucom.com have written some
applications for the SGI's that do the following:

	o Alter number of rings your modems answer on according to day
	  of week and time of day.  It also removes the bogus lock
	  files that might still be in /usr/spool/locks for the serial
	  ports.

	o Command line Audio Volume control that doesn't effect
	  sampling rates like sfplay or playaiff do with empty aiff
	  files.

	o Replacements for UUCP that will wait for other serial port
	  traffic to stop and then grab the serial port for UUCP to
	  use.  (Very useful if you have serial ports that are in
	  constant use for incoming/outgoing calls.)


	All of the above functions with or without the flex-fax
software available via anonymous ftp to sgi.com.

	As far as price, E-Mail an offer.  We would consider $25.00 to
be about right...  We're not sure if we should go with the shareware
concept or what.  In short, we're negotiable.

	In my opinion I think that SGI should make us an offer for the
rights and bundle it with the OS.  It solves an awful lot of problems
as far as system administration.  They make the system smart enough to
babysit itself as far as serial IO, UUCP, and SLIP goes.

	These programs have been tested for over a year on an SGI
R3000 Indigo and have been running solidly for 6 months.  It's well
out of Beta Test stage.

	These scripts are not provided by the company I work for, or
any other commercial organization.  (This is to clarify the point for
the discussion in news.admin about commercial advertisements on USENET.)

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From: kjv@exucom.com (Karl J. Vesterling)
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Subject: SSPS & Smarter UUCP.
Message-ID: <1992Dec30.084613.21896@exucom.com>
Date: 30 Dec 92 08:46:13 GMT
Organization: ExuCom Multimedia Inc.
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