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From: conrad@cavebbs.gen.nz (Conrad Bullock)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: problems with a simple uucp connection
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.031452.2629@cavebbs.gen.nz>
Date: 17 Dec 90 03:14:52 GMT
References: <36881@cup.portal.com>
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ
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In article <36881@cup.portal.com> Key_-_Sounds@cup.portal.com writes:
>The following was sent to a sys admin...
> ...
>what the following error means in /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE ...

>...
>ken arc (11/19-17:43-297) OK (startup)
>ken arc (11/19-17:43-297) REQUEST (S D.vecvaxb01EK D.vecvaxb01EK ken)
>ken arc (11/19-17:45-297) BAD READ1 (expected 'S' got FAIL)
>...

>[A friend and I are attempting to setup a connection and the direction from
>him (arc) to me (ken) works but I get the above problem going the other
>direction]

>Any ideas anyone?

We had very similar problems setting up a UUCP connection - We had no
problems when we were in master mode, but we were always getting bad
reads in slave mode. It turned out that our modem was set for XON/XOFF
flow control, and there was an XOFF character in one of the packets we
were sending, so incoming data was held by the modem, and it timed out.
Our modem required us to set about 3 parameters before XON/XOFF was
disabled entirely - some modems have parameters covering XON/XOFF
passthrough, etc.

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Conrad Bullock,                Domain: conrad@cavebbs.gen.nz
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Wellington, New Zealand.