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From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Does uucp have to be slow?
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Date: 22 Oct 90 18:18:55 GMT
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In the process of getting my shiny new Tower XP running, I need to transfer
about 30 meg of data from my current PC/AT system. My options are 360K PC-DOS
disks (yuk!) or uucp over a serial cable. Of those two, I'd much rather do
uucp. I'm running SysV 3.02.01, without the HDB enhancement (I have it, but
haven't installed it), and an octal I/O board (not the HPSIO :-( ).

I was able to get the two machines talking. There are two problems: 1) It
won't run over 1200 BPS, and 2) it won't run for more than a few hours. In
both cases, the failure mode is the same: The AT (running Microport System
V/AT 2.4, with HDB) eventually hangs, and, if I used Uutry to start the
connection, reports an "alarm 1". The Tower simply gives up, leaving the
status "CONVERSATION" in the STST.* file. I have to reboot the AT to clear
out the uucico process.

I have the AT set up to initiate the connection, and the Tower has the port
defined to be a dial-in port (it's /dev/tty00, if that matters). I haven't
tried running it the other way yet.

Any suggestions out there? Should I have the Tower call the AT? Should I jump
through the hoops required to get HDB on the Tower (I don't expect the
installation to be difficult, but getting the file to the Tower may be)?
Do I need to scrounge an HPSIO? Who killed Laura Palmer? :-)

Thanks in advance...
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Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu  | adequately be explained by stupidity.
"It's a hardware bug!" "It's a    +---------------------------------------
software bug!" "It's two...two...two bugs in one!" - _Engineer's Rap_