Date   : Mon, 10 Jul 1989 17:03:26 GMT
From   : mcvax!cernvax!ethz!ethz-inf!wyle@uunet.uu.net (Mitchell Wyle)
Subject: uupc for cp/m? Roll your own.

kdavis writes:
> Has anyone come up with a uucp like clone for transferring mail
> from a cpm machine to unix and back? Would be very interested in
> obtaining it.

(What about it, Dave?  Are you going to release your cp/m 'g' protocol
yet?)

I use xmodem and a couple of scripts (started manually on the cp/m
machine) to download stuff from the Unix host, and upload stuff I've
edited locally.  I think it would be a piece of cake to write a
terminal emulator script to call a unix host, log in, invoke xmodem,
download the spooled mail/news or whatever, then delete them from the
spool dir.  It might even be possible to have a restricted shell which
can run only a few commands (rx, sx, rm) on the unix side...

The same script could then take the local cp/m files, upload them, and
pipe them through mail or inews -h and then delete them on the Unix
side.

I assume that since cp/m is not multi-tasking - multi-user that these
up- and download scripts would always have to be invoked manually.  On
the other hand, if the Unix host could poll the cp/m machine running a
bbs system...

I assume that Dave Goodenough has these scripts for qterm; I further
speculate that someone has MEX scripts to do the same sort of thing.
You don't have to run uucp to network to another machine.  Some fancy
scripts (with error-recovery, security, etc) will give you the same
effect.

Of course you'd have to have some code (probably shell scripts) on the
Unix side of the system, but I still think the project is pretty easy.

My cp/m box is a laptop (Bondwell Model 2).  I don't have the need or
the desire to download Unix mail or news and then upload replies,
because it's easier to use the machine on my desk at work.
-- 
-Mitchell F. Wyle
Institut fuer Informationssysteme         wyle@inf.ethz.ch 
ETH Zentrum / 8092 Zurich, Switzerland    +41 1 256 5237