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From: phil@amd70.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: use of @
Message-ID: <4066@amd70.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Nov-83 12:55:08 EST
Article-I.D.: amd70.4066
Posted: Sat Nov  5 12:55:08 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Nov-83 00:58:27 EST
Organization: AMD, Santa Clara, CA
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In watching my uucico with debugging turned on, I have observed that
many systems wake up with garbage in their input queue. I have found
that the use of @ is remarkably effective in dealing with this most
of the times. That is, I use a line like:

amd70 Any ACU 1200 1234567 "" @ ogin:-@-ogin: uucp sword: word

The "" says expect nothing and immediately send the @ followed by a
carriage return. However, this week I ran across two systems that
apparently change the default line kill character to something else.
The best solution I have found is this (\d means delay, \r return):

amd70 Any ACU 1200 1234567 "" \r gin: \r\d\r gin: uucp sword: word

Which makes it go through a login: password: cycle (or two) before doing
it for real. This does take longer and I'd like to appeal to system
administrators to keep @ the default line kill character for login.

Comments are welcome.
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Phil Ngai (408) 988-7777 {ucbvax|decwrl|ihnp4|allegra}!amd70!phil