Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: TrailBlazer and UUCP
Message-ID: <1988Aug2.182133.20331@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <311@mikros.systemware.de>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 88 18:21:33 GMT

In article <311@mikros.systemware.de> stefan@mikros.UUCP (Stefan Stapelberg) writes:
>I am planning to replace my modem with a TrailBlazer and I would
>like to know whether this will work OK with the UUCP left unmodified.

Yes.

>Are there any restrictions concerning transmission speed and/or
>error recovery with this antique version of UUCP?

No.  We ran a Trailblazer successfully with an even older uucp.

>How about 'f' protocol? Does it work reliable? ...

For talking to a Trailblazer, you want to use 'g' protocol, since the link
from computer to modem is probably not a fully reliable path (especially
if your serial i/o hardware isn't too good -- the high speeds will quickly
expose any flaws there).  As I understand it, the 'f' protocol was built
originally for networks that didn't get along well with 'g' protocol (but
provided fairly reliable flow-controlled transmission on their own); this
situation is different.
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