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- From: naughton@chinet.chi.il.us (Thomas Naughton)
- Subject: Re: UUCP pkcget: alarms.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.170433.18827@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 17:04:33 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.003758.25466@chinet.chi.il.us> <1541@b1.babss.UUCP>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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- In article <1541@b1.babss.UUCP> wadswort@babss.UUCP (John H. Wadsworth) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul22.003758.25466@chinet.chi.il.us> naughton@chinet.chi.il.us (Thomas Naughton) writes:
- > <problem getting pc with at&t unix to uucp with sun. alarms to death >
- >
- >I had the same problem with ISC 2.x. The fixes available were:
- >1) User a slower speed. (a waste of a good modem)
- >2) Get a serial board with 16550 (if supported by the driver)
- >3) Replace the serial driver
- >
- Thanks to everyone who responded. The problem was adequately solved
- by turning flow control off (stupid me), but there are still alarms which
- I will attribute the fact that I have a sh***y serial port. If I send
- the file in smaller chunks (<50k) things seem to transfer without aborting.
-
- Again, thanks for all the replies!
-
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- Thomas M. Naughton "Love is chemistry, but sex is physics"
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