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From: root@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: uucp login problems
Keywords: uucp login
Message-ID: <6738@crash.cts.com>
Date: 6 Jan 91 07:15:06 GMT
References: <1173@bbx.basis.com>
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In <1173@bbx.basis.com> russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler) writes:
}I suspected that his new uucp was sending the login data in even
}parity and not in 8 data, no parity.  In checking the tty parms
}for the tty I've noticed that ISTRIP isn't being enable as the 
}gettydefs documentation says it will.  In forcing ISTRIP in the
}particular gettydefs entry it doesn't seem to show up.

}Anyway, it looks right now that that's probably the problem.  
}Anyone encounter this before?  Any solutions?

Why not just have the BSD system add to the beginning of its
expect-send sequence the following: "" P_ZERO.  That sets the BSD uucp
to 8N1 and should work just fine logging into Xenix.

--Bill