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- From: debra@wsinis07.info.win.tue.nl (Paul De Bra)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: uucp woes
- Keywords: uucp esix worldblazer sas
- Message-ID: <4890@svin09.info.win.tue.nl>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 09:30:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan01.191128.4566@wisdom.bubble.org> <1993Jan4.081829.17615@netcom.com>
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- Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
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- In article <1993Jan4.081829.17615@netcom.com> gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
- >
- >Jeff, what other conclusion can be drawn? Your analyzer trace showed
- >the bytes that the WorldBlazer and your ESIX system exchanged. It logged
- >everything the WB sent to the computer. That trace showed a perfect
- >transfer up to the failure point. Suddenly, the ESIX uucico started
- >rejecting a packet from the WB. Examination of that packet shows:
- >...
-
- This happened to me before, with different versions of Unix (different
- vendors, different hardware, etc), but all running some variety of HDB
- uucp as with sVr3.2 and sVr4.
-
- I normally have no problem with uucp transfers (using hardwired lines locked
- at 38.4k or with a T2500 at 19.2k), but once in a while i find a file that
- won't transmit *ever*. No matter what i do, like even slowing down to a
- crawling 300baud, the file will never be accepted by uucp.
- I have tried retransmissions after some other files, but no go.
- The only way to transfer such a problem file is to change it (like uuencode).
- I would say there is a hidden bug somewhere in HDB uucp (not having source
- code i can't say for sure of course) that consistently refuses some
- bit-pattern.
-
- Since i have encountered this problem a few times (happens about once
- every two years or so over the last 5 or six years) maybe others have too.
-
- Paul.
- (debra@win.tue.nl)
-