Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,u3b.tech
Subject: Re: HDB dialer timeout
Message-ID: <835@becker.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 89 15:08:39 GMT
References: <4309@natinst.natinst.com>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <4309@natinst.natinst.com> brian@natinst.com (Brian H. Powell) writes:
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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?

	In your "Dialers" file you can put in delays after the
	phone number variable. Here's an example in Hayes format:

	hayes	=W-,	"" \M\d\c ATDT\T\r\c ATDT \d\d\d\d\d\m\c CONNECT

	System that dial to Telebit sites which are configured to
	respond with "PEP tones" last in the sequence have a similar
	timeout problem, which this approach also solves. Vary the
	number of "\d"'s before the "CONNECT" to suit your problem...

Cheers,
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