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From: russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: uucp login problems
Keywords: uucp login
Message-ID: <1181@bbx.basis.com>
Date: 8 Jan 91 15:57:34 GMT
References: <1173@bbx.basis.com> <6738@crash.cts.com>
Organization: BASIS International, Albuquerque NM
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In article <6738@crash.cts.com> root@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue) writes:
>}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.

You're right, that will work (and has been suggested by a few others
in email.  I'm just annoyed that getty and gettydefs in SCO XENIX
won't work - and all the suggestions from SCO are to screwup the login
so that only certain systems can login.

I thought that my post was reasonable, the it is reasonable to expect
that the code should work as documented.

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