From: 10:07 Subject: RE: problems with DECUS uucpTo: "'open-vms-sig@decus.org'" > Friends, > > We have an Openvms v7.1 VAX with All-in-1 v3.2, and we use DECUS > UUCP to transfer email to/from PSInet via their UUCP mail service. > > Several months ago DECUS UUCP stopped writing time-specific > extensions on it's outgoing messages, and named them all the same > (b.uu2240, c.a_uu2240, D.uu2240) producing several versions of each > message for the various messages being sent out. > > While this is fine for OpenVMS, the PSInet system (unix) on the > other end takes these same filenames and over-writes them -- so > only one of the messages ends up "getting out." All others are > over-written on the Unix side. > > I have written soem DCL programs to try and address the problem, > but there are still instances where these same-name files cannot be > corrected before they get transmitted. > > Does anyone have an Idea what is causing this and (more > importantly) how to correct it? The problem really lies in the > MAILSHR aspect of this (which creates the message files from All- > in-1 and VMS mail messages), I assume, not the transfer programs. There was a sequence number bug in UUCP that caused a similar problem. The fix for the bug was to delete the file uucp_data:sequence.number, which forces the numbering to reset. Hope this helps - I'll be interested to know. RHM +--+ Robert H. McClanahan, Mgr, Tech Info Systems, rmcclanahan@aecc.com Arkansas Electric Coop Corp, PO Box 194208, Little Rock, AR 72219-4208 "The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." C.S. Lewis <[]>< >