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From: help@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended Help Desk)
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Subject: Re: UUPC
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Date: 20 Jul 90 15:20:37 GMT
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From article <15644@s.ms.uky.edu>, by fehr@ms.uky.edu (Robert Fehr):
> However, here in 
> Kentucky we are running over what can only be descibed as funky
> wires. Other packages (like KERMIT or PROCOMM) do not have as
> much of a problem. Has  any one else tinkered with or substituted
> another COMM black box? Or is the distributed COMM.ASM about as
> robust as could be found? Comments or help will be appreciated.
> -- 
>              jeff davis   davis@keats.ca.uky.edu 
> part of the world of American bad actors who, when the chips are down, go to
> Florida...   Ninety-Two in the Shade  by Thomas McGuane

Changing COMM won't help the data; you might wish to try MNP (tm) error
correcting modems.

The next release of UUPC/extended should include a slightly brighter
error counting scheme to abort only after 20 consecutive errors rather
than 20 errors overall; I should, however, note, that I haven't actually
written this fix ... yet.  THis may help you over the bad phone lines.

Drew Derbyshire

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