This directory contains the executables you'll need to communicate
with other UUCP/UUPC machines, and some news-handling programs.  First,
let me say that the ".sh" files are shell scripts written for Dillon's
Shell.  Similar scripts should be (easily?) possible for WShell, ASH, and
others.

The shell scripts have comments at the beginning of each file.

rwxda    688      onefile.sh           11 Dec 1989 22:16 
rwxda   1067      setup.sh             11 Dec 1989 22:21 
rwxda    678      batch.sh             11 Dec 1989 22:13 

These binaries are responsible for the communication and mail handling
between two or more machines:

rwxda    228      aliases              11 Dec 1989 22:24 
rwxda  18260      mailx                 3 Dec 1989 01:13 
rwxda  19676      pccp                  3 Dec 1989 01:13 
rwxda  33264      uupc                  3 Dec 1989 01:12 

The aliases file is actually a shell script which contains mail address
aliases, i.e. translations from common names to e-mail addresses.
The mailx program is a simple mail reader.  IT IS NOT "mailx"!!  I had
to pick a different name, however, since the directory where I kept
incoming mail was called "Mail"...  Sorry for any confusion.  Pccp is
the replacement for the "uucp" command on UN*X -- it is for queuing
file transfer requests through the UUPC system.  And last but not least,
uupc is the actually communication program.  It dials the other system,
arbitrates the UUCP protocols, transfers any files, and records the
transactions for that session.

These files deal directly with the distribution of incoming NetNews.

rwxda  32600      relaynews             3 Dec 1989 01:13 

Relaynews is responsible for reading an ASCII news file and spreading
the data to the various newsgroups.  It knows how to parse the "active"
file, the "history" file(s), and the "sys" file.

The remainder of these files are for support.

rwxda  16016      acomp                 3 Aug 1989 16:31 
rwxda  21804      atar                  3 Aug 1989 18:26 
rwxda   4188      unshar2              20 May 1989 00:42 
rwxda   9264      uudecode              3 Dec 1989 01:12 
rwxda   7028      uuencode              3 Aug 1989 20:12 

Acomp is an Amiga-ized version of compress.  It dynamically allocates
memory for either compression or decompression.  Basically, that means
that while data may have been compressed at 16-bits, you may be able
to uncompress it at less, therefore allowing this version to run on
systems with less available memory (although I now have 2.5MB and don't
have to worry about memory anymore :-).  Atar is an attempt at simulating
the UN*X tar command on the Amiga.  This command provides for both creating
and extracting tar archives.  USE THIS WITH CAUTION!!  I have been using
it for quite some time, but I've noticed flaky behavior on occasion --
exactly what the occasion is, I can't say...  So, just beware.  Unshar2
is the latest un-shar package that I got off the net (sometime during the
summer of '89?)  Uu{de,en}code are the old standbys.  The decoder works
well, but I'd like to see one that accepted a list of file names.  As
it is, you have to "cat" all the files together and then run'em through
uudecode (unless you have a working PIPE)...