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From: farber@udel-huey.ARPA (Dave Farber)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: A bit more on At Xenix uucp problem
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 09:16:24 EDT
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Seems Lauren's fix is not all that easy on AT Xenix
(at least I am still fighting it). Remember the problem
is that uucico sets an alarm timer for such a short time
that it is impossible to pulse dial a cross country
number and connect before the damn thing times out. It is
an OLD and well known bug that Microsoft and now IBM
insists on keeping.

The nastiest and best idea I have heard (and I will
not reviel who suggested it) is to put in the dial
code that uucico calls , a patch that resets the system timer 
back a short amount. Thus holding off the timeout while
it has a chance to dial (about 45 seconds).

I thought such a technique merits recording for the future.

Dave