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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: marching-umber-hulk reports wanted 
Message-ID: <3847@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-May-84 17:46:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: utzoo.3847
Posted: Mon May 14 17:46:09 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 14-May-84 17:46:09 EDT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Would anyone who runs into the "marching umber hulks" problem on utzoo
please drop me a line about it?  All our modems have been set to disable
remote initiation of self-test mode, which is thought to be the cause of
the problem.  I'd like to know whether it still occurs.

(All right, I'll talk, I'll talk:  the "marching umber hulks" is a
problem seen only when dialed in at 1200 baud.  Suddenly the other end
starts spraying U's at you as fast as it can send, and there's no way
to break it out of this state except to hang up the phone and dial in
again.  The name comes from Rogue.)
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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