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In article <6361@celit.fps.com> billd@fps.com (Wonko the Sane) <= that's me writes:
>The subject says it all.  Email replies prefered.

Many people have requested that I forward the info so I decided to post.
Several people told me to write to gnu@toad.com.  It took him a while to
get back to me (he couldn't have *real* work to do could he? ;-).  Anyway,
here is what I found out:

>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 90 23:23:58 PST
>From: gnu@toad.com (John Gilmore)
>Message-Id: <9001260723.AA14501@hop.toad.com>
>To: billd@toad.com
>Subject: Re: Is there a GNU version of UUCP out there or in the works?
>In-Reply-To: your article <6361@celit.fps.com>
>
>I have been working on gnuucp for some years now, off and on.  I can
>send you a copy of the current source in five or six shar files.  It
>limps but it is not a reasonable replacement for unix uucp yet.  It is
>however in use in environments where there is no other uucp, e.g.
>IBM PC's, Amigas, Ataris, Macs, even a Tops-20 port!
>
>	John Gilmore

I hope he doesn't mind that I posted this.  From what he writes, I
don't think it will serve the purpose for which I was interested in
using it.  I was kind of hoping for a full-featured UUCP to replace the
bad joke that Sun calls UUCP on a friend's 386i (No L-devices chat
script, no null job queuing, useless documentation, everything
rearranged).  If it was one of my own machine's I could just use my
source but it's not and my company doesn't like to get sued and I don't
like to get fired).

Maybe in a few months I'll try to get the source and help him improve
it.  Maybe we should get more people in on it.  UUCP is not a trivial
project.  I'm on a high priority project for the next few months and
won't really have much extra time until April (ski season taking up
what little free time I do get ;-).

Since I flamed Sun's UUCP, I'd better put in disclaimers.  I am not an
official spokesperson for anyone.  My opinions are not necessarily that
of anyone else, I don't know if my company even has an opinion on other
company's UUCP's.  They probably don't.

--Bill Davidson