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From: rhg@cpsolv.UUCP (Richard H. Gumpertz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: uucico turnaround with "g" protocol
Message-ID: <447@cpsolv.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 89 18:53:27 GMT
References: <739@lakart.UUCP>
Reply-To: rhg@cpsolv.uucp (Richard H. Gumpertz)
Organization: Computer Problem Solving, Leawood, Kansas
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In article <739@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
>for this to fail , but I wanted to get the net.opinion of the following
>idea. When running in slave mode, _ALWAYS_ respond with a 'HN' when the
>master says 'H'. If I have work, I'll enter master mode, and my
>requests will be processed. If I have NO work, I'll immediately follow
>my 'HN' response with a 'H' request of my own. At this point, I'm in
>the same place as my master program is when it's run out of work, and
>from there on in, it will work just fine. Basically, can I be lazy, and
>do this:

What happens if you end up talking to a uucico that does the same things as
you do?  It seems to me that you will send H/HN back and forth forever!
A program really should be capable of running with a clone of itself at
another site!
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