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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: uucico timeout
Message-ID: <1989Aug26.201141.15716@twwells.com>
Date: 26 Aug 89 20:11:41 GMT
References: <9321@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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In article <9321@chinet.chi.il.us> kdb@chinet.chi.il.us (Karl Botts) writes:
: I'm sure this is a dumb question, but how can a change the timeout that
: uucico waits on after a failed call?  Mine waits an hour -- I want it to
: try more often.  I can see that the time is in the STST.* files, and of
: course I could just have my uudemon.20min delete them, but there's gotta be
: a better way.
: So help me, I _have_ RTFM.

Here is what I recall; since this *is* in TFM, you can check it
yourself.

In the Systems file (HDB), place ";<timeout>" at the end of the time
field. In the L.sys file (non-HDB), use ",<timeout>". As in:

foobar Any,20 ACU ....

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