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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Need an example UUCP file
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.092240.302@erbe.se>
Date: 17 Dec 90 09:22:40 GMT
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Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Jakobsberg, Sweden
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In article <*QF^NB#@ads.com> jtn@ADS.COM (John T. Nelson) writes:

>Does anyone have an example UUCP chat script they can send me which
>correctly negotiates Annex boxes?  Everytime I try to talk to one of
>these guys with UUCP I get a boatload of garbage characters which my
>UUCP chat script can't handle.  I think it's because UUCP likes to
>talk in 8 bit no parity and the Annex boxes expect you to log in at
>7E1.

We have all our Annex ports set to the default, namely 8 databits,
no parity and one stop bit.

All remote sites calling one of our Annexes uses various versions
of the following chat script (expressed in terms of HDB uucp):

\d\d nnex:--nnex: stty\siflow\snone\soflow\snone\sattn\snone nnex:
rlogin\suucphost ogin: <username> ssword: <password>

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