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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: 4.2BSD --> SCO Xenix UUCP
Message-ID: <1719@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 90 00:30:50 GMT
References: <1813@fallst.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Distribution: comp
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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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.

  Old problem, simple solution. The BSD box is calling out with seven
bit data and parity, and the 386 doesn't catch it. The old getty (didn't
work with ungetty) did, the new one doesn't. The solution is in the
L.sys on the BSD machine, add P_ZERO (no parity) to the login script.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me