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From: chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT UUCP Dial-out fix?
Message-ID: <1989Oct24.164529.12053@nueces.cactus.org>
Date: 24 Oct 89 16:45:29 GMT
References: <550@cpdaux.UUCP>
Organization: Nueces Inc.
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steve@cpdaux.UUCP (Steve Lemke) writes:

>I called apple.com today to find out about setting up a uucp login for our
>NeXT machine at work.  I was informed by someone there that the UUCP that
>comes with the NeXT machine has a bug in it that won't realease the modem
>device after it has placed a call, thus making it necessary to reboot the
>computer after calling.  This will not work for us since we want to be polling
>throughout the day.

That, as far as I know is a load of crap. I have been polling and being polled
for nearly a year now using trailblazers and hayes modems. There is no such
problem. The only thing I have run into that sounds anything like that is
when 0.8 tip used to crash and tie up a serial port which required a reboot.

-- 
Chris Whatley
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