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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: uucp won't talk.
Message-ID: <3020@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Aug-84 10:12:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: watcgl.3020
Posted: Sun Aug 26 10:12:26 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 27-Aug-84 00:29:22 EDT
References: <536@denelcor.UUCP>, <188@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Uucp is SUPPOSED to work regardless of the contents of the files being
sent.  Usually, if garbage in a file is causing a link to quit in the middle
of a transfer, the hardware or software passing characters across that
link is not entirely transparent.  Either it expects certain characters
to be used for flow control or commands and eats them when it sees them,
or the network in use is simply not capable of delivering a continuous
stream of characters at the baud rate in use.  A simple wire joining
two machines should not have any of these troubles though.  The only thing
i can think of it being vulnerable to is the bug where you try to send
a file which is bigger than several hundred Kb and uucico times out while
waiting for it to be copied.