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From: tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.sys.dec
Subject: 4.2BSD --> SCO Xenix UUCP
Summary: Can't get past login prompt
Message-ID: <1813@fallst.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 90 13:18:44 GMT
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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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