Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!karl
From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: HST and uucp
Summary: NO NO NO!  DO NOT DO THIS!
Message-ID: <1989Oct17.135720.24722@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 89 13:57:20 GMT
References: <[2535d5d4:17]comp.dcom.modems@nstar.UUCP> <287@tabbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL
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In article <287@tabbs.UUCP> aris@tabbs.UUCP (Aris Stathakis) writes:
>From article <[2535d5d4:17]comp.dcom.modems@nstar.UUCP>, by akcs.larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder):
>! Is anyone use the HST for UUCP transfers?
>! 
>! My HST gets 230 cps sending mail via UUCP to another HST - and both
>! modems are locked yet produce 1550 cps when connected via ProYam
>! doing a Zmodem - Zmodem transfer.
>!  
>! Ideas?  Suggestions?
>
>USR have an HST/IX version of the HST which is made for UNIX and UUCP.
>I'm not sure what the difference is, but maybe you should give USR a
>call and find out.

HST/IX is a SOFTWARE product.  It requires another copy on the OTHER END in
order to get reasonable throughput.

It also appears to break intelligent mail, and requires that your users
learn and use an entirely different syntax and set of programs to queue and
pass files.

YUCK.

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