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From: gandrews@netcom.COM (Greg Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP mail problem
Summary: Not a complete test, still need to check XON/XOFF in host modem.
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.020452.15811@netcom.COM>
Date: 3 Jun 91 02:04:52 GMT
References: <1991Jun2.022745.15539@netcom.COM> <1991Jun2.131321.725@shaman.com>
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  UNIX System {408 241-9760 guest}
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In article <1991Jun2.131321.725@shaman.com> jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes:
>In article <1991Jun2.022745.15539@netcom.COM> gandrews@netcom.COM (Greg  
>Andrews) writes:
>> Did you make sure that the *modems* also have XON/XOFF flow control disabled?
>> Not only your T2500, but the other site's modem as well?
>>                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 
>   Of course. Like I said, I dialed in manually to their site with the same  
>modem settings and tried to see if flow control was enabled by trying to stop  
>flow with a control-Q (escaped with a control-V), it wasn't.  The other site 
>is a major feed site for the Ithaca/Upstate New York area, anyway. I'd doubt  
>they'd make such a mistake.
>

Your test will check to see if their computer has XON/XOFF disabled, and
if your modem has XON/XOFF disabled, but not whether their MODEM has it 
disabled.

XON/XOFF in their modem simply sends XONs and XOFFs to their computer, it
doesn't respond to your XONs and XOFFs, so your test wouldn't have covered
their modem config.

Perhaps it's unlikely that their modem is bad, since they're a large feed
site, but IMHO it should still be checked out.  It's always that one little
overlooked detail that bites you.

Along those lines, you may want to check whether they transmit data to any
other T2500 users through that same modem.

It's also worth a try without any error correction to see what happens...


>Jiro Nakamura				jiro@shaman.com

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