Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: How to use uucp on a VAXstation 3100 via Telebit modem? Message-ID: Date: 13 Jul 90 05:13:52 GMT References: <1990Jul12.004749.4579@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <13165@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: news@mhres.mh.nl Reply-To: Johan Vromans Organization: Multihouse Automation, the Netherlands Lines: 34 In-reply-to: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com's message of 12 Jul 90 04:56:12 GMT In article <13165@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes: grr> In article <1990Jul12.004749.4579@watcgl.waterloo.edu> grr> idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) writes: ian> Am I correct in my assesment that because the vs3100 has no modem ian> control signals on its DECconnect plug, uucp can't be taught to ian> "wait for carrier", and thus uucp will not work? ... So is uucp ian> useless on a vs3100? grr> Alledgedly, the VAXstation 3100 has no modem control, the grr> DECstation has limited modem control on one of the ports. This grr> means that you can't get shared lines to work - modem has to be grr> dedicated to either incoming or outgoing call and you'll have to grr> dick with the modemcap stuff to get a sequence that pretty much grr> ignores carrier and works by timouts/modem status strings. This grr> may be less than reliable. I have connected a T2000 to the VS_SLU (/dev/tty02, standard cable, pins 2,3,6,7,20 straight through). I changed /usr/lib/uucp/addmodems to accept 9600 baud for a telebit, and used /etc/uucpsetup to configure this line "shared". No changes to /etc/modecap. I cannot get tip/cu to work to dial manually, but UUCP works fine. I'm using this line for both dialin and dialout with only one problem: the jobs apparently do not get a HANGUP when the carrier drops. Fortunately uucico times out after a while... Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62944/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------