Path: utzoo!mnetor!intacc!mann From: mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Scripts to deal with A/UX's buggy UUCP Message-ID: <1991Apr10.195627.8304@intacc.uucp> Date: 10 Apr 91 19:56:27 GMT References: <1991Mar28.003019.1764@mauxci.uucp> <1991Apr2.044623.299@intacc.uucp> Organization: Inter/Access Artists' Centre Toronto Lines: 23 In article urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: >In comp.unix.aux, article <1991Apr2.044623.299@intacc.uucp>, > mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann) writes: >< 4. Therefore, if you are using a Telebit, you can't use auto baud rate >< adjusting on incoming uucp calls. >< >??? Why? > >UUCP defaults to using the g protocol. That protocol defaults to requiring >less than 256 unacknowledged bytes; both the modem and the A/UX buffers are >quite capable of storing that many unprocessed characters, therefore there >can't be any soft overruns, therefore no flow control is necessary. Ok, right. We have remote users logging in at 1200 baud for shell sessions, which needs the flow control (doesn't it?), so I was confused - if you are only taking uucp calls, then you can use the auto baud adjusting. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Jeff Mann Inter/Access Artists' Computer Centre, Toronto [416] 535-8601 | | intacc!mann@cs.toronto.edu Matrix Artists' BBS: [416] 535-7598 2400 8N1 | | ...uunet!mnetor!intacc!mann mann@intacc.uucp [416] 535-1443 Telebit 8N1 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-