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From: pvo@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: The program "tip"
Keywords: cu
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Date: 2 Jul 90 11:30:13 GMT
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In article <98@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> dgc@euphemia.math.ucla.edu (David G. Cantor) writes:
>
>I always receive the response "all ports busy" no matter what I try. 
>Does anyone know the magic to make this program work?
>

	cube# grep lock /usr/man/man1/tip.1c
	and by honoring the locking protocol used by
	/usr/spool/uucp/LCK..*  lock file to avoid conflicts with \fIuucp\fP
	cube# 

Sometimes you have to manually remove the lock file in /usr/spool/uucp/LCK


Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu		DoD 000006
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-737-3251