PE> Hi Paul.  Since you're an expert at Unix,



I think you must be confusing me with another Paul Markham.



 PE> I was wondering if you could furnish me with the following:



Pretty unlikely.



 PE> 1. During a UUCP connect, the other system sends a file, which

 PE> is quite similar to our arcmail attaches.  It consists of a header

 PE> which contains a command (such as "unbatch") followed by a lot

 PE> of data that has been compressed using the unix "compress"

 PE> utility.  You then need to strip the command, decompress the

 PE> data, and then toss the messages, which conform to RFC-822.



Thanks for that info. I'm sure it'll come in handy one day.



 PE> 2. Do you have some C newsgroups that you can feed to me at no

 PE> extra cost to yourself?



No. I don't get any news groups here and we haven't got any further than
e-mail at work.



 PE> 3. I have spoken to Dave Hatch, and he says if I can provide him

 PE> with newsgroups, he is happy to give them to the rest of

 PE> Australia.  IOW all it takes is one gate and the entire Fidonet

 PE> joins the world of internet newsgroups.  I am still trying to

 PE> ascertain the technical and monetary aspects of this.



I know there are boards around already collecting news groups. I'd guess
they're not being shipped around the fidonet backbone due to the cost
involved.



 PE> 4. David Begley, you're a unix expert to, so I probably should have

 PE> cc:ed this to you, so don't feel left out of a Paul Edwards wacky

 PE> home software project now, will you?



Run Dave! Get out of here while you still can!



 PE> 5. I don't think the point format was the correct way to write this

 PE> message.  One humungous paragraph would have been more logical.

 PE> What I need is a feature in micro-emacs that

 PE> auto-humungous-paragaphifies things for me.  Remind me to add that

 PE> as a feature to a future public domain version of emacs?!



Remember to add an auto-humungous-paragraphier feature to a future public
domain version of emacs.





Paul



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