Xref: utzoo comp.os.coherent:207 alt.bbs.waffle:1665 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!decwrl!fernwood!uupsi!jpradley!shawn From: shawn@jpradley.jpr.com (Shawn Blair) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,alt.bbs.waffle Subject: Re: DOS waffle <-> Coherent uucico problems Message-ID: <1991Apr24.153613.29345@jpradley.jpr.com> Date: 24 Apr 91 15:36:13 GMT References: Organization: NYC Public Unix Lines: 34 In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes: >jep%baugo@nstar.rn.com (Joseph Perry) writes: >> I used waffle uucico debug level 5 to try to isolate the problem. My >> login proceeds normally. My system responds to 'login:' prompt, the >> 'password:' prompt and the secondary 'password:' prompt from Coherent. >> I get the waffle debug message 'Awaiting remote identification', I see >> the 'Shere=mwcbbs' from Coherent, and get the waffle message 'Talking >> to: mwcbbs'. I see that waffle responds with 'Sbbsuser', but then I >> see Coherent respond with 'Coherent login: '. Eventually waffle > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >This is wrong. It looks as though Coherent uucico is falling over and the >system is going back to the login prompt. > You're right. There may be something Joseph is not seeing, though. Try using debug level 9. I had a similar problem between two systems that would only show an incomplete connection. Once I used debug level 9, I found that Coherent couldn't write some log file. Level 9 adds a lot of information that you normally wouldn't see. >> (b) I'm told new Coherent uucico binaries were installed on the MWC >> Coherent bbs about the beginning of April. I could successfully >> connect to the MWC bbs with DOS waffle until up to about April 1. > Once you get more detail on the problem, be sure to drop a line to MWC somehow to let them know of the problem. They are still working on the uucp programs to ensure a better performing utility. shawn. _______________________________________________________________________________ -- Shawn R. Blair ~ shawn@jpr.com -- -- --