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From: munroe@thehulk.dmc.com (Dick Munroe, Doyle Munroe Consultants, Inc.)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Problems with DECUS UUCP and UUPC communications
Message-ID: <91@thehulk.dmc.com>
Date: 29 May 90 09:19:12 GMT
References: <27@thehulk.dmc.com>
Organization: Doyle Munroe Consultants, Inc., Hudson, MA
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In article <27@thehulk.dmc.com>, munroe@thehulk.dmc.com (Dick Munroe, Doyle Munroe Consultants, Inc.) writes:
> My thanks to Andre Wood (andre@hern.mv.com) who, in passing,
> mentioned seeing this problem before and saved me a lot of time
> hunting for it.
> 
> All implementations of UUPC send the following during the initial
> g protocol handshake:
> 
> 	\000\020 handshake message \000
> 
> While not, strictly speaking, a violation of g protocol (as I
> understand it) it does give some uucico implementations a
> problem, notably DECUS UUCP, which is where I ran into it.
> 
> I plan to fix the uucico in DECUS UUCP but it was easier to fix
> the UUPC implementation (because I understand it better, not due
> to any flaw in DECUS UUCP).
> 
> For those of you who want the fix, in dcpsys.c in function wmsg,
> change:
> 
> 	swrite("\0\020",2) ;
> 
> to
> 
> 	swrite("\020",1) ;
> 
> and the problem will go away.
> -- 
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-- 
Dick Munroe				Internet: munroe@thehulk.dmc.com
Doyle Munroe Consultants, Inc.		UUCP: ...uunet!thehulk!munroe
267 Cox St.				Office: (508) 568-1618
Hudson, Ma.				FAX: (508) 562-1133