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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: uucp vs. sytek (and switches in general)
Message-ID: <2427@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 14:19:52 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 13 14:19:52 1984
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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The problem with using a dedicated localnet channel for uucp is that
all of the machines which you are going to call now need to have a Sytek
box permanently dedicated to that channel.  We use the same channel that
all of the normal terminal traffic uses and so the serial ports and Sytek
hardware is used by both people and computers - this is particularly
important for machines that have only 2 or 4 Sytek lines total.
But it does require using flow control.  Able DH/DM's, at least, can
be set up for hardwired flow control of the outgoing data, but we just
use XON/XOFF in both directions by modifying the data stream so it
contains no XON's or XOFF's.  We also leave the command characters
set normally so that people can use the outgoing sytek boxes normally
when uucico isn't using them.