In 1989, John Logajan wrote a uucico in Basic for the Atari ST. It was much much better than any of the
existing C versions of uucico on the ST, so I rewrote it in
C for use with my BBS system on the ST. When I abandoned the Atari
ST for the IBM PC clone world, I ported it along, and used it to
read mail and news up to the point where I switched pell
over to Linux and put it on the
public net.
Mailtruk implemented 3-window uucico at a time when all the C versions of uucico only did 1-window uucico. And it was written well enough to make converting it to C a snap – it only took me 3 or 4 evenings to convert it over and debug it, including time spent doing phone calls to my upstream so I could debug the G engine.
Bauble is the final version of my UUCP system. I’m releasing it under a BSD copyright, which requires that you credit John Logajan for his original work.
| Folder | Contents |
|---|---|
| libraries | Common routines used by Gio and uucp. |
| Gio | This is the Mailtruk G protocol engine, rewritten in C. |
| UUCP | cu, mail, uucp, rmail, rnews, cico, and the other programs that make up uucp. |