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- From: steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins)
- Subject: Re: GETTYDEF/UUCP Help Needed!
- References: <2930003023.1.p00192@psilink.com>
- Organization: Chiral Symmetry Breaking, Inc.
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:15:50 GMT
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- In article <2930003023.1.p00192@psilink.com> "William L. Mullica" <p00192@psilink.com> writes:
- >I am trying to get UUCP working between a Linux machine (Taylor UUCP
- >1.03) and an SCO Xenix machine. The computers are connected thru their
- >serial ports at 9600 bps by a 20 ft. null-modem cable.
- >
- >I can establish a UUCP session and get thru the handshaking OK. However,
- >shortly after the data transfer begins, the sending (Xenix) machine
- >starts showing alarm messages (lost connection?) and the transfer times
- >out and fails. I suspect that my GETTYDEF for the serial line my be at
- >fault. This is my GETTYDEF line for both systems:
- >
- >9600# B9600 CS8 CLOCAL # B9600 CS8 SANE -IXON RTSFLOW CLOCAL TAB3
- ^^^^^^^
- #login: #9600
- >
- >Is there something wrong here? Can anyone give me a 'proper' GETTYDEF line
- >for a 9600 bps direct connect line. Could something else be causing the problem?
-
- One problem is that RTSFLOW is not a valid flag here. Want you want is
- CRTSCTS for linux. If your problem is due to buffer overruns, this may fix it,
- but other than that I have no idea.
-
- >Bill Mullica
-
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- Steve Robbins -- steve@nyongwa.cam.org
- Dsylexics of the world, untie!
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