Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!njsmu!mccc!pjh From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) Newsgroups: unix-pc.uucp Subject: Re: uucico is eating my outgoing mail! Message-ID: <1989Oct20.202445.3048@mccc.uucp> Date: 20 Oct 89 20:24:45 GMT References: <1989Oct14.105712.9505@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <1989Oct16.181609.14182@mccc.uucp> <989@icus.islp.ny.us> Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) Distribution: unix-pc Organization: The College On The Other Side of U. S. Route 1 Lines: 36 In article <989@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes: =In article <1989Oct16.181609.14182@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) =writes: =|>What causes the "BAD READ (expected 'C' got FAIL)"?? = =Basically when uucico is going through it's handshaking to coordinate between =the different files to send the ("D.*" and "X.*" files), uucico will stop =after each file and wait for an nowledgement from the other site. = =*** TOP *** - role=1, setline - X =Request: icus!D.icus1eac709 --> att!D.icus1eac709 (lenny) =setline - S =wrktype - S = wmesg 'S' D.icus1eac709 D.icus1eac709 lenny - D.icus1eac709 0666 lenny =rmesg - 'S' got SY = PROCESS: msg - SY =SNDFILE: =-> 1683 / 1.416 = 1188.5 =rmesg - 'C' got CY = PROCESS: msg - CY =... = = ^^ If for some reason the remote site doesn't send back = anything, or gets out of sync, or there is noise on the = line... several (10 I think) alarm() calls will happen. = and eventually it will timeout with the message. = BAD READ (expected 'C' got FAIL) = Now the question is, what would cause the remote to sedn nothing or get out of sync consistently??? -- Pete Holsberg UUCP: {...!rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh Mercer College CompuServe: 70240,334 1200 Old Trenton Road GEnie: PJHOLSBERG Trenton, NJ 08690 Voice: 1-609-586-4800