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From: brian@natinst.com (Brian H. Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,u3b.tech
Subject: Re: HDB dialer timeout
Summary: Problem solved.  Thanks.
Message-ID: <4332@natinst.natinst.com>
Date: 5 Sep 89 14:25:57 GMT
References: <4309@natinst.natinst.com>
Followup-To: poster
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
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In article <4309@natinst.natinst.com>, I wrote:
> 
>      We've got [a system with HoneyDanBer]...
> 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.

     I've received about 20 answers to this, including some asking me to
summarize.
     There were two main solutions.  The one we implemented (the first one
we tried worked, so it was also the last one we tried), was to change the
Dialer script from this:

	... ATDT\T\r ...
to this
	... ATDT\T\r\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\c

     Uucico doesn't start timing out until after the dial sequence completes,
so this delays the end of the dialing sequence, but gets the modem started
first.

     The other solution proposed, equally viable, is to add an extra "expect"
for the CONNECT message.  Basically, again in the Dialers file, change this:

	... ATDT\T\r CONNECT
to this:
	... ATDT\T\r CONNECT \d\d\d\d\d\d\c CONNECT
	    ^send    ^expect ^send	    ^expect

     This must be a common topic, because I got so many replies.  Thanks to
everybody who sent mail.  Next, we're working on our U.K. office...

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