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From: larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: USR 9600 baud dual standard
Message-ID: <1990Oct13.142039.10668@nstar.uucp>
Date: 13 Oct 90 14:20:39 GMT
References: <1990Oct8.195418.1817@cbnews.att.com> <2461@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> <2170@jwt.UUCP> <2509@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> <54AKM7C@geminix.in-berlin.de>
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gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering) writes:

>`e' proto was developed for LANs. Due to this design goal most
>implementations in use today have a flaw that makes it unreliable
>over serial line. It simply gets stuck under certain conditions.
>This has to do with the message receiving function assuming that
>messages will arrive in one single packet (which is true for LANs),
>whereas error free modems do their own packetizing which usually
>confuses the uucico. It took months until I discovered the reason
>for this instability. I don't know whether this is fixed in newer
>releases of HDB UUCP. At least in ISC 2.0.2 it isn't fixed. Don't
>know about ISC 2.2.

Where in the Systems file (please give an example) of where the e
goes (we run ISC 2.20 and would like to try it)?

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