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From: revell@uunet.UU.NET (James R Revell Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit, UUCP and XON/XOFF
Message-ID: <101432@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 15 Aug 90 20:03:22 GMT
References: <1990Aug14.194845.24322@cimcor.mn.org> <10329@gouldnl.encore.nl>
Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA
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In article <10329@gouldnl.encore.nl> ted@gouldnl.encore.nl (Ted Lindgreen) writes:
>When a trailblazer goes into UUCP g-protocol spoofing mode,
>Xonn/Xoff flow control is automatically switched off.  Because
>the UUCP only sends (flow) control characters in the g-protocol
>packets and in (binary) data (i.e. not during setup, where
>g-protocol spoofing is not in effect) this works fine and reliable.
>
>So, if your trailblazer is used for a variety of modems for
>interactive work, but only with other trailblazers for UUCP,
>you can get away with setting the trailblazer to Xon/Xoff
>flowcontrol, and using a fixed interface speed.

I have seen (and fixed) too many problems with UUCP connections
using Telebits in PEP mode to believe this.  Quite often when I
have someone reporting UUCP problems change the appropriate flow
control register (still at factory default value 3 - XON/XOFF
enabled) their problem disapears.  This happens even when g
protocol spoofing is enabled.

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