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From: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Odd happenings with Tahoe UUCP
Message-ID: <29807@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 89 20:12:02 GMT
References: <77544@pyramid.pyramid.com> <623@lakart.UUCP>
Reply-To: tvf@ccird7.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Organization: CCI, Communications Systems Division, Rochester, NY
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In article <623@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
>csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) sez:
>] In article <617@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (Who, Me???) writes:
>]>   < UUCP connects but eventually dies>
>] No, they don't. That's the whole problem. Your machine, lakart, is not in
>] their L.sys file.
>I must beg to differ, for two reasons.

I had a similar problem with a UUCP link to a Tahoe about a year ago.  Not
only do you have to be in their L.sys file, but you also need to be in their
USERFILE explicitly.  The "default" USERFILE rule doesn't work.  Both the
login and the system name have to be listed.

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