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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP Over 7-bit connection
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.224601.27427@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 17 Mar 91 22:46:01 GMT
References: <91070.203832LDSHANER@MTUS5.BITNET>
Organization: Contributed Software
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LDSHANER@MTUS5.BITNET (Leon D. Shaner) writes:

>I have reason to want my UUCP to call through a certain 7-bit connection...

>Is this likely to be more trouble than it is worth???

no, no problem.

>I wasn't sure if UUCP required 8-bits or not...  I've managed to get my
>expect/send prompts finely tuned to the new connection, but it times out
>one expect/send past password...  (Debug says it got something it was
>looking for, but then it just sits there...)

>Can anyone tell me anything I might try???

you must use f protocol to do this. in fact i receive a full news
feed with it. of course news (and other 8bit data) should be 7 bit
encoded before transmission.
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