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From: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO UNIX 3.2 & uucico
Keywords: Parity
Message-ID: <3559@thebes.Thalatta.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 90 16:30:45 GMT
References: <1776@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Reply-To: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
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Organization: Thalatta Corporation, Bellevue WA
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In article <1776@lakesys.lakesys.com> deanr@lakesys.lakesys.com (Dean Roth) writes:
>
>A site I need to call is using 7 bits and even parity.
>Uucico uses 8 bits, no parity.  How do I get uucico to
>use 7 bits, even parity?
>
>I am running SCO's UNIX System V revision 3.2.
>

I had the same problem connecting to Sun workstations running Xenix 2.2.6.
The problem did not affect uucp since it seems to handle that OK on its
own, but was ugly using cu.

For a long time I would call with cu and just type in the correct responses
at what I took to be the login and password prompts, then had the
appropriate stty statement in my .cshrc file on the Sun.

When I updated last week to Xenix 2.3.3 I found the -e option to cu!
This allows me to specify the parity when I invoke cu and now I can
read those prompts and even the first part of my fortune when the
system starts.
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