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From: gsm@mailgsm.mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson)
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Subject: Re: UUCP through a kinda-direct connection
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Date: 1 May 91 03:37:09 GMT
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explorer@iastate.edu (Graff Michael L) asks:
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>I am connected through the local university network, and wish to run UUCP on
>my computer.  I need to know the following before I try this:
>
>I assume the protocol Coherent uucp uses is "g", right?

Yes, currently that is the uucp protocol everybody supports. 


>Will uucp work over a line which uses xon-xoff for flow control, or does
>uucico put the tty into raw mode and use xon-xoff as data?

uucp assumes that all characters (xon and xoff too) are data characters. They
should not be used for line control. uucp uses short packets anyway, so I would
not worry about you network being overrun. If you start to see lots of errors,
reduce your line speed. 


>The connection I have is more like a modem.  I send a few CR's to autobaud,
>then I get a DIAL: prompt.  I then enter the address I wish to connect to,
>and everything should work after that.

Should work fine, I used to use that setup to connect my unix system to my
coherent system across the room. But I have had many problems with coherent
receiving uucp calls. So I now only go the other way (unix calls coherent)
to keep testing the software. Most of the bugs that prevented incoming calls
have been fixed in the newer (post 3/1/91) uucp binaries.

you chat script would look something like  

Null in    cr pause cr     Make sure of     
                            case      

""          \r\d\r         DIAL:-DIAL:  (hostname) login:-login (userid) ....
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