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From: ralf@ptavv.ka.sub.org (Ralf Wenk)
Subject: Re: MacMinix / UUCP Help Please
Message-ID: <1991May22.200116.00948@ptavv.ka.sub.org>
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 20:01:16 GMT
References: <1991May21.120721.19016@ukpoit.co.uk>
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In article <1991May21.120721.19016@ukpoit.co.uk> paul@ukpoit.co.uk
(Paul Wood) writes:
> My main problems are with uucico. The protocol gets hung while retrying
> after a failure ("RJ out of window" message). I can transfer very small
> files, but anything above half-a-dozen lines of text invariably causes
> a problem.
> 
> I desperately need to contact other MacMinix/UUCP users who are trying
> to do the same as me. Has anybody succeeded?

I do not use MacMinix but MINIX ST and have not found this bug (yet).
Sometimes a RJ will pass and sometimes it will not. I have a full log
of a failing RJ but can not see the real cause. But ...
There was an other bug in the uucico with sending a RJ to the remote
site. This bug will stop the transfer because a right (HDB) implementation
will not send the expected package. The fix is below. May be the mistake
how to interpret a RJ message causes the first error too.

	} else if (neednack) {
/* disabled because of protocoll violation. RW 25.Nov.90
		gspack(TT_CTRL, X_RJ, (recv + 1) & 7,
				(unsigned char *)NULL, 0);
*/
		gspack(TT_CTRL, X_RJ, recv, (unsigned char *)NULL, 0);
		neednack = 0;
		printmsg(M_MEDPROTO, "Sending RJ... recv=%d", recv);

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