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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: uucp via a rlogin session
Message-ID: <13811@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 88 05:29:54 GMT
References: <531@comdesign.CDI.COM> <317@magnus.UUCP> <13797@mimsy.UUCP> <166@carpet.WLK.COM>
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>In article <13797@mimsy.UUCP> I pointed out that
>>rlogin ... will not allow you to disable escapes.

In article <166@carpet.WLK.COM> bill@carpet.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) notes:
>Not knowing that you couldn't rlogin to uucico I [did it anyway] ...
>It was perhaps not the most elegant approach to the problem but it did work
>and continues to work that way (as recently as yesterday).  ...
>I'm not really asking if it should work or not, I'm more concerned about
>whether it's likely to break.  Should we be unable to do this?  If so,
>should we be alert for it to stop working when someone "fixes" it?

As long as UUCP never transmits one of the sequences

	RETURN escchar .
	RETURN escchar Meta-DEL
	RETURN escchar escchar

(where escchar is the character set by -e, default `~') it will
continue to work.  Obviously, these three sequences are statistically
unlikely: P=3/256^3 in uniformly random data, or about .000018%.  You
should be able to manufacture a file that will reliably break the
connection, however, and Murphy dictates that your boss will do it.
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163)
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