Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!neoucom!wtm
From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Query about the quality of UNIX/PCs and 3b1's (really 3b1 unix)
Summary: cheaper for uucp to call me from a site that hass an fx line
	 I just got the patched up uucico
Message-ID: <924@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 16:29:51 GMT
References: <9691@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <18017@clyde.ATT.COM> <997@bakerst.UUCP> <133@axcess.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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I really like to have uucp from neoucom dial me, as neoucom has an
fx line that doesn't cost them a lot to call me here.  For me to
call them is a toll call.  That is why I wanted dial-in.  Neoucom
also won't forward mail if I poll them because my machine,
"impulse" identifies itself as "impuls" to to the 6 character name
limit hard coded into uucico (and several other places).
Unfortunately, the name for my machine was picked before I was
aware that more than six characters was verboten on the PC7300.

Well, to make a long story short, after wrangling with the Hotline
folks, with me and several other netters, the Hotline finally
decided there was a problem in uucico.  Somebodyat AT&T finally got
around to fixing uucico, and they emailed me a new copy.  The new
uucico seems (knock on wood) to have fixed things-- or at least it
hasn't broken anything additional.  The old rendition had a file
size of 71344, and the new version is 71372.  Looks like only
relatively minor brain surgery was necessary.

Since the crashes were separated by up to a month, I guess only
time is going to tell if this did the trick.  Alas, the warranty
will be gone by then.

--Bill