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From: cliffb@cjbsys.bdb.com (cliff bedore)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: 4.2BSD --> SCO Xenix UUCP
Message-ID: <1990Sep15.234311.5547@cjbsys.bdb.com>
Date: 15 Sep 90 23:43:11 GMT
References: <1813@fallst.UUCP>
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In article <1813@fallst.UUCP> tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans) writes:
>I am having trouble establishing a UUCP link from a VAX 11/750 to
>a 386 box running SCO Xenix 2.3.2--NOTE:  from VAX to Xenix box.
>No matter what communications speed I use, no matter what modem
>I use (from a simple Hayes-compatible 1200 baud to a Telebit),
>I can never get past the login prompt from the Xenix box.
>
>I believe this may be some sort of parity-related problem.  The
>Xenix machine doesn't ever see any input from the VAX.  Although
>I can't find anything in the BSD manuals (and don't have source),
>I seem to recall there's a way to specify other-then-default parity
>in the BSD L.sys file.  Also, what suggested changes to the
>Xenix box's /etc/gettydefs might address this?
>
>(I have, by the way, the stuff from Telebit on setting up S registers,
>etc., the SCO update for Telebit modems, and have received a number of
>different versions of a dial program for the Telebit.  And, I have
>exhaustingly tried manipulation of the VAX's Telebit S registers to
>match what's prescibed for the Xenix machine.)
>
>HELP?!?  Thank you.
>-- 
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>Tim Evans	2201 Brookhaven Ct, Fallston, MD 21047

Here's the entry from my L.sys for Ultrix (BSD?) to Xenix


cjbsys Any DIR 9600 ttyd2 "" P_ZERO "" ATZ "" ATDT4744608 ogin:-\r-ogin: xxxxxx assword xxxxxxx