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From: jsl@barn.COM (John Labovitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Macintosh and GNU UUCP - Help !
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Date: 25 Oct 90 01:14:22 GMT
References: <2660.271f7655@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <271@srchtec.UUCP>
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In article <2660.271f7655@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, rapickering@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
> 	I'm having trouble getting the GNU implimentation of UUCP working
> on my Macintosh SE/30.
> [...] 
> After the last line the machine hung.  When the modem was turned off the 
> control was returned and I could quit from Mac/uucp.

This *might* have something to do with hardware flow control. 
Sometimes I've seen the case where the serial driver will not send or
receive data until one of the control lines (RTS? CTS? CD?) is held
high.  And I've seen modems that will do fine in command (AT...) mode,
but as soon as you issue a dial command, if some control line is not
held high, it will *drop* another control line -- perhaps the one that
the serial driver is waiting for.  I know, this sounds confusing, and
it is.  I'm sorry I can't offer any more hard details, but maybe this
will get you somewhere.  I don't remember if the GNU/Mac code turns on
flow control in the serial driver, but if it does, perhaps it
shouldn't.

And to your other "helper":

In article <271@srchtec.UUCP>, mra@srchtec.UUCP writes:
>In article <2660.271f7655@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rapickering@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
>>	I'm having trouble getting the GNU implimentation of UUCP working
>>on my Macintosh SE/30.
>
>	GNU doesn't support it's software on Apple computers.

Thanks, guy, for such a wonderful, helpful reply.  I'm sure you helped
Rob immensely.  Do you work for FSF, or are you this way naturally?
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