From: utzoo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddi!smh
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Title: Re: Login delay increases chances of getting connected
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.133
Posted: Sat Apr 23 14:00:31 1983
Received: Sun Apr 24 08:15:34 1983
References: uw-beave.520

My experience is also that the right magic can greatly decrease
the probability of unsuccessful login negotiations in uucp.
In particular, some long distance connections are prone to
inserting a few garbage characters at startup, and these can
get seen by the called login process.  If the timings of the
two systems are right (or actually, wrong), the uucp and
getty/login can get out of phase, particularly if the uucp
login gets eaten by the stty noecho after the password prompt.
(I had the greatest problems with this uucp'ing to Europe!!!)
Anyway, the fix is to start the login script with something like:
	\n delay \n delay
One might even want to throw in an EOT at the start, in case the
called system doesn't implement SIGHUP on carrier lossage, but I
have not found this to be necessary.

I have a few trivial modifications to conn.c which allow both
delays in the login script and arbitrary C-style \000 escapes.
Anyone who wants a copy is welcome to request by mail.

I also have various programs and code to support dialin and
dialout using a Racal-Vadic PA3451 autodial for both
cu and uucp.  As above, distribution to anyone who asks.
				Steve Haflich
				MIT Experimental Music Studio
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