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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: uucp VS 4.2 - (nf)
Message-ID: <283@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Apr-84 18:27:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  2 18:27:09 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Apr-84 07:51:15 EST
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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>  But if the line is so noisy as to cause the first few
> login attemps to fail, does uucp want to login at all?
> Perry		convex!smu!pedz

Yes it very well may, because at that point it has not yet agreed on a protocol
with the other computer.  Once login has successfully occured uucico switches
to an error correcting protocol which is much more tolerant of noisy lines.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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