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From: brian@natinst.com (Brian H. Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,u3b.tech
Subject: HDB dialer timeout
Message-ID: <4309@natinst.natinst.com>
Date: 3 Sep 89 18:13:08 GMT
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Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
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     We've got an AT&T 3b2/700 running System V.3.2 with HoneyDanBer UUCP.
Unfortunately, we don't have source.  We're trying to set things up to call
our France office (a Xenix system) with UUCP.  Problem is, it takes about 45
or 50 seconds to make the call and have the modems connect.  A few seconds
before we connect, uucico invariably times out, and tries to dial again.
     We've talked to AT&T, and they said the timeout value is hard-coded, and
hence cast in stone.  I explained to them that there should be a way to patch
our uucico to change the hard-coded timeout value.  After thinking about it
for several minutes, AT&T decided they needed to think about it some more.
Perhaps they'll be able to send us a new version of uucico with a different
hard-coded value.
     Does anybody have a workaround for this?  We tried adding delays in
various places, but to no avail.  Anybody know the "proper" place to add
delays that might affect the beginning of the timeout period?
     Thanks for any help.  Please send mail.

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