Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!spt!gz
From: gz@spt.entity.com (Gail Zacharias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO XENIX UUX/UUCP undocumented option
Message-ID: <237@spt.entity.com>
Date: 29 Dec 87 12:48:04 GMT
References: <358@mpx1.UUCP> <169@conexch.UUCP>
Lines: 14
Keywords: XENIX uuxqt bug

In article <169@conexch.UUCP>, root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes:
  [...]
> Uucico, on the other hand, lacks some functionality.  It dosen't seem to
> support \d for delay in the L.sys send/expect sequence nor mutiple days/times
> in the time field.  It also fails to try calling out on another modem line
> if it is previously unsuccessful.  

Yeah, and uuxqt loses its lunch if the host field in the U line of the X. file
has more than 9 characters!  Kinda a pain if your news feed comes from a host
calling itself bloom-beacon... (No, you really don't want to know how I ended
up working around this bug.)
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