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- From: gil@limbic.ssdl.com (Gil Kloepfer Jr.)
- Subject: Re: UUCICO synch/alarm problems
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.021449.29001@limbic.ssdl.com>
- Summary: Problems with Xyplex
- Organization: Southwest Systems Development Labs, Houston, TX
- References: <1992Sep5.001101.860@honte.uleth.ca> <JOCHEN.92Sep8192445@busybit.mrz.sub.org> <BuIsL2.L2I@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:14:49 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <BuIsL2.L2I@ucunix.san.uc.edu> loncars@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Sven Loncaric) writes:
- >I have a similar problem.
- [...]
- >The problem is the following: The off-campus machine successfully
- >connects to the on-campus machine and the data transfer starts but soon
- >after that the connection breaks because the on-campus machine does not
- >respond any more.
- [interesting description of connection through terminal server deleted]
-
- This looks like a problem I saw with Xyplex terminal servers. Nothing
- I have ever done has made UUCP work over these beasts, and the
- commands you included in your article look like Xyplex server commands
- (they emulate DECserver-200-like commands).
-
- The only thing I could tell when I tried figuring this out a while ago
- was that no matter what you told the server, it would still pad a
- carriage-return or line-feed (I don't remember which) with a null
- character under certain conditions. UUCP won't tolerate any kind
- of padding of characters, as you probably can guess.
-
- The host I was trying to connect to both times I tried this was a
- DECstation running ULTRIX, which may also have something to do with the
- problem. The awful thing about it was that I could get the connection
- to succeed for a short time, then it would fail miserably. It would
- always fail in the same place on the same file. Other files would
- work fine. The problem was definitely content-related, and as far as I
- can tell (not speed-related).
-
- Hope this at least saves you some frustration trying to get this to
- work. Certainly if anyone has gotten this configuration to work, I
- would love to hear how.
- --
- ! Gil Kloepfer, Jr.
- ! gil@limbic.ssdl.com / ...!ames!limbic!gil
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