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From: wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: HDB dialer timeout
Message-ID: <5015@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 5 Sep 89 14:13:32 GMT
References: <4309@natinst.natinst.com> <9648@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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In article <9648@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>>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.

> Simply put some delays (\d) in your dialer script. 

Correct.  But not just anywhere.  Be sure to put the delays after
the carriage return and terminate the sequence with a \c so as not
to send a final spurious character:

	...  ATDT\T\r\d\d\d\d\d\c  ...


-- 
	-Mike Wescott
	 mike.wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM