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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Telebits and uucp g-protocol
Message-ID: <82192@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 26 Aug 89 22:03:03 GMT
References: <335@nixtor.UUCP> <4980002@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <72@cboard.UUCP>
Reply-To: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
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In article <72@cboard.UUCP> ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) writes:
>Forgive the stupid question :-), but *how* does one coerce uucico to use
>'f' or 'e' or 'x' or ANYTHING other than 'g' on a standard dialup line?

Not a stupid question, because no one documents this, far as I know.

On versions that support it, you can put the protocol right after the "ACU"
keyword, in L.sys (Systems) and L-devices (Devices), like this:

	ACU,g		(g only)
	ACU,f		(f only)
	ACU,fg		(f if they have it, otherwise g)

The versions known to support this are HoneyDanBer, BNU as of SVR3.1, and the
"latest" 4.3BSD, which Pyramid and a few other places are using, but does not
appear to have made it into 4.3BSD-tahoe.

>I'm running HDB UUCP on an AT&T 3B1....

You have a problem. That's BNU, which is an older version of HDB that AT&T-IS
got their grubby paws all over. Amongst other things, they took out 'f', and
left you with 'x', which is completely unusable. So you're SOL.

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