Re: Looking for UUCP & BBS software

[chl@aho.cba.csuohio.edu (Chuck Liggett)]

In article <27as5o$7k2@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) writes:
>In article <27aq28$plu@apple.com> unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret) writes:
>>In article <1993Sep16.170830.14996@cpu.com>,
>>Gerald W. Lester <gwlester@cpu.com> wrote:
>>>There have been several people looking/working at porting GNU UUCP to the Gs to
>>>run under GNO.  GNO V 1.0 did not have enough interpocess communication to cut
>>>it, but GNO 2.0 (whish is shipping now) appears to.  I would guess that in the
>>>next couple of months it should be ready.
>>
>>	Actually there was someone (Bob Green?) who has had a "partial"
>>implementation of UUCP working for a few years now. I do not recall what he
>>meant by a partial implementation, however after someone else posted 
>>info from a UUCP map showing that he was using a GS to do UUCP, a few of
>>us mailed him and he ended up posting to the net about his UUCP..
>
>I -do- know that UUCP-G is being worked on for Metal. I had some of it
>done, but sold my NeXT, so testing it became really hard. I'm not 
>sure how far Greg Boehlein has got with it, though.
>
>But with the UUCP-G protocol, Metal (ala Futurevision) would become 
>an EASY method to do all of what whomever is asking about, and you
>could use a standard uucp account to do it.

(This is actually Greg posting through Chuck's account until my new one
is established.)

Yes, I was working on it and have a partial implementation. However,
development on METAL (for me) has been reduced to simply hobby work. I
can no longer afford the time to support it the way I have done in the
past. Unfortunately, this also means that the protocol (UUCP-G) is still
under "slow" developement. As of now, I have the UUCICO front end
accomplished. It is about 50% functional at this point. I haven't had
the time or the equipment (I was out of state for 4 months this summer)
to really work on it that hard.