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From: winans@sirius.mcs.anl.gov (John Winans)
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Subject: Re: Coherent UUCP <---> Xenix UUCP ?
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Date: 8 Apr 91 15:00:45 GMT
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In article <1991Apr6.133259.23350@contact.uucp> rrwood@contact.uucp (roy wood) writes:
>
>I'm trying to get my Coherent system talking with a Xenix-based system.
>I've been given a UUCP user-id and password for the Xenix system, and I've
>convinced uucico that it knows how to use the modem and call up the other
>system; however, things start to crap out after the two systems connect.

Yah.. that happened to me ALOT when I was first trying to get it working...  In
fact it still does sometimes when I call the MWC BBS ;-)
 
>Is the Coherent UUCP package compatible with standard UUCP?  Or is it some
>mutant variation that only works with Coherent systems?

It supports the 'G' protocol of UUCP.  Which is not a mutant.
 
>If anyone has managed to make their Coherent system talk to another non-
>Coherent system, I'd like to hear about it.  Did you use the default UUCP
>routines, or port something over to Coherent?

I use the regular UUCP stuff, but mine never worked until I wrote my own
'modemcap' entry.  For some reason mine would start up and do the dialing
at the baud rate spec'd in the sys file mess under /usr/lib/uucp then after
the connect message it would switch the baud rate to that spec'd in the
/etc/ttys (ttys???  is that the name? or ttytab?) file... even though I had
the line disabled in that file.  The MWC docs on their UUCP port are pretty
crappy.  In face I think their trailblazer default configs stink too.

Oh Yah!!  yes I have been using Coherent's UUCP to call a Sequent symmetry 
and a Sun3 machine for news and mail for a few months now.  (The news software
I wrote myself and all it does is unbatch news files and put them into a tree...
No expiration & no reader.  But I see some talk of rn and cnews these days.)


If you have a hayes compatible modem, email me and I will TRY to send you 
copies of my config files and stuff.  (But no promises, I have not had my
coherent running for a few weeks & I fear bit-rot might have set in.)

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