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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: HDB UUCP on Sun's trying to be too bright?
Message-ID: <4639@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 2 Dec 90 22:20:08 GMT
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>  I haven't got the Sun sysadmin manuals, and I don't recall seeing
>anything in the AT&T HDB manuals about this. What has Sun changed?

The way it chooses the parity to use when transmitting characters.  The
code was lifted from the 4.3BSD UUCP, which:

1) defaults to even parity

2) permits you to put a fake "send" string (which you'd couple with a
   null "expect" string) to set the parity.

P_ZERO sets it to zero, P_ONE sets it to one, P_EVEN sets it to even,
P_ODD sets it to odd.

This is in the Sun sysadmin manuals for 4.1, so I suggest you get
them instead of flying blind....


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