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Date: 4 Jun 90 12:08:59 GMT
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Subject: Re: uucp posting..
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References: <42@caswell.UUCP>

>From article <42@caswell.UUCP>, by bob@caswell.UUCP (Bob Caswell):
>> In article <37455@cci632.UUCP> tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) writes:
>> >It will send packages from my system to system "sysname", but if something
>> >is queued on sysname it will not switch over to SLAVE mode and receive them.
>> >What am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> I am the person responsible for the "uucp155" file on Plains.  I took Peter
>> Housel's uupc for v1.3 and made it work on 1.5.5; it only required changing
>> ioctl(2) calls and a few other small things.  The ioctl interface hasn't
>> changed significantly since then.  I recall sending mail both directions and
>> I think I sent files, too.
>> 
>> Check out the host you're connecting to; sites running HoneyDanBer UUCP are
>> quite paranoid.  If the system that is sending to you has a
>> /usr/lib/uucp/Systems (rather than a L.sys) file, then it's HDB.  You'll
>> have to change "Permissions".....
> 
> When I had something to send to an other system, I experienced the same 
> problem when using the uucp version posted to the net by Peter Housel last
> year.
> After detailed examination of the debug output I saw that:
> 
>  1) I was able to send all files that were queued to the other system.
>  2) After receiving the *first* of many files that were to be sent to my 
>     system I found that "my" system always broke the connection.
>     The connection was broken as part of the uucp protocol.. At the time
>     I believed that there was a bug, but I couldn't find it.  Also,I did not
>     have any documentation on how uucp was supposed to respond... and
>     I did have a circumvention which was .... 
>  3) When I polled the other system again, (with nothing to send), I was always
>     able to retrieve the balance of the files queued for my system.
> 
> You will note that I was always polling the other system to pick up my mail
> and other files.  The other system NEVER would call me; so HDB uucp permissions
> would never be a consideration in MY case.

This is very clearly the DCP with the OLD G-driver.
Peter Housel and I fixed that a long time ago.  Please use the
version I posted some time ago, in which most things have been fixed.

Fred.