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From: gnu@sun.UUCP (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: sending netnews to sites with binary-only uucp
Message-ID: <363@sun.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 17:20:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 29 17:20:47 1983
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(1) uux -x supposedly shuts off the annoying confirmation messages.  If
their binary uux doesn't have it, they should complain to their
vendor.  (Meanwhile you, who sends them news, have to live with the
messages.  Maybe if their vendor is on the Usenet you should forward
the messages to them.)  We send news to a Fortune system (sdglist); I
believe it coredumps if you supply the -x flag.  Ahem, anyone
listening?

(2) It is often possible to run an "ASCII dialer" (modern modems which
dial on the same serial line where data is transferred) by including
the dialing sequence in the "login" part of the L.sys file entry.  I
have seen D.C. Hayes modems run that way and I bet you can do it for a
Vadic too.  Set up the device part of the L.sys entry as if it was a
hardwired line.  Look ma, no source code changes!