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From: dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: uux shouting
Message-ID: <128@arnold.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 88 15:27:52 GMT
References: <115@argus.UUCP>
Organization: Home, Mission Viejo, Ca
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Keywords: UUX PC7300 UNIXPC NEWS

In article <115@argus.UUCP>, gsarff@argus.UUCP (gary sarff) writes:
> and the problem is that the two unix pc's want to send the results of uux's
> to each other during the transmission of news.  I know there was a fix
> for this, adding the '-z' option to uux, but that only works if one has
> SysV source for the Unix pc which I don't.  So the two pc's get into a
> shouting match, dialing each other nearly continuously sending uux results
> to each other,then the results of those results, ad infinitum.  How can
> this be stopped?  Does anyone have a "fixed" uux for the AT&T unix pc?
> Thanks for any help, it would be really appreciated.

You can use the -n option to uux if you never want to see the
results of the uux.  Otherwise, you need a version of uucp that
understand's the -z option... namely HDB.
-- 
Dave Arnold
dave@arnold.UUCP	{cci632|uunet}!ccicpg!arnold!dave