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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: uucp over telnet connection
Message-ID: <15381@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 24 Oct 90 22:51:23 GMT
References: <1990Oct24.115921.22397@nstar.uucp>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Oct24.115921.22397@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:
> 
> I call into a local machine, telnet to another machine,
> then login and initiate a uucp transfer with this remote
> machine.
> 
> The uucp transfer is aborted with multiple alarms and "bad header
> messages".   Any ideas?  Is it even possible to use uucp over
> a telnet connection?  

Well, uucp (normally) requires an 8-bit transparent path and telnet
has a single character link kill, plus various other escapes...

> 
> -- 
>        Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA 
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