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From: pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: FSUUCP to VMS DECUS uucp initalization problem
Message-ID: <2590.271890d8@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 90 21:22:48 GMT
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I have a problem connecting a FSUUCP version 1.1 (Release 5) host to a VMS
host running DECUS uucp version 1.1.  The MS-DOS machine is calling the
VMS host.  The problem happens when they first get connected.

Apparently, the VMS slave is sending "Shere", but the MS-DOS master is
looking for "Shere=hostname".  The VMS documentation seems to say that
either "Shere" or "Shere=hostname" is acceptable (page F-13 of DECUS uucp
documentation).  But, MS-DOS wants "Shere=hostname" (in the "Error Messages"
section).

I tried the "-h" option of CALLOUT ("ignore host name") but, that only
got the process one step farther before it stopped.

Has anyone been able to connect to a VMS host using FSUUCP?  Or another
MS-DOS version of UUCP?

Peter
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