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From: davis@ncrclt.Dayton.NCR.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: USR HST/ds Help
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Date: 5 Jul 90 20:36:24 GMT
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In article <150@adsi.UUCP>, larrys@adsi.UUCP (Larry Slavick) writes:

> LS> Has anyone connected a USR HST dual standard to a NCR Tower 32/700?
> LS> I would like to know how to set up the configuration files to take
> LS> full advantage of this modem in either HST or v.32 modes.  I would
> LS> like to use this modem for dial-in or dial-out access.  Any help
> LS> would be appreciated.
> 
> In an item on the NCR mailing list that I haven't seen on comp.sys.ncr,
> Susan Davis replies:
> 
> SD> I haven't connected a USR HST but I know from trying uucp on a 32/700 th
> SD> only an NCR 2500 microcom modem works with uugetty and that uugetty has

> Perhaps all this applies to the 32/700 but not to other Towers.  I'm running
> a 450, on 2.01.00 (aka System V Release 2 1/2).  I'm using uugetty on a
> bidirectional line and an Everex 2400 modem.  The only problem I've
> encountered, which I've documented in this newsgroup before, is that the
> system fails to log off a user if the phone line drops without a CTRL-D
> having been sent, this leaving a slight security hole.
> 
> I've also been able to use a very non-Hayes modem in this capacity, and
> the biggest problem I had was writing a Devices entry to handle dial-outs.
>  
> I understand NCR attempted to 'improve' uugetty, and that some of the
> improvements didn't work out so well. 

Mike - Unfortunately the 3/5/700 are substantially different than the rest
of the systems, especially 4xx/6xx under 2.01.  It deals with being driven
by the streams drivers versus the pure hpsio and uugetty definately has
bugs under release 1.00 but some are fixed under 1.01.  To my knowledge
many folks were never able to get uugetty to work if they had old 1200
baud ncr hayes lookalike modems.

Sorry!

Susan Davis
cmd - NCR charlotte