Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amd!dual!mordor!ut-sally!jsq From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman) Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs Subject: Re: uuhosts that works with January 1984 mod.map.uucp postings Message-ID: <887@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 11:58:40 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.887 Posted: Thu Feb 7 11:58:40 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 15:12:10 EST References: <500@ut-sally.UUCP> <588@ut-sally.UUCP> <619@ut-sally.UUCP> <1600@ittvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 30 > Uuhosts worked very well with the data in mod.map.uucp but I > found one misfeature in the way it interacted with certain > site's information. Any information after the first blank line > in a site description was not presented to the user in inquiry > mode. I've fixed this in the version posted a few days ago to net.sources, Message-ID: <844@ut-sally.UUCP>, using the same idea as your code, but a slightly different approach. > I also couldn't help adding a 'paging' mode for those site > description that overflow a screen. This feature is also > helpful if the user requests information on multiple sites, > ala 'uuhosts ittvax wxlvax'. This I've not done, since there are so many different varieties of paging methods out there. A long time ago, uuhosts used to have screen paging. I've gotten many fewer complaints since it hasn't. The new version also includes ideas from several other people. I don't mention their names, however, because what I've done with their ideas doesn't look much like their original code, as I've condensed several things together. Uuhosts now is much easier to install, all of the pathnames that are likely to be different on different systems are now parameterized in the Makefile, and the man entry, as well as the sources, is parameterized. -- John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 USA jsq@ut-sally.ARPA, jsq@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!jsq