uux shouting

Dave Arnold dave at arnold.UUCP
Sat Feb 27 01:27:52 AEST 1988


In article <115 at argus.UUCP>, gsarff at argus.UUCP (gary sarff) writes:
> and the problem is that the two unix pc's want to send the results of uux's
> to each other during the transmission of news.  I know there was a fix
> for this, adding the '-z' option to uux, but that only works if one has
> SysV source for the Unix pc which I don't.  So the two pc's get into a
> shouting match, dialing each other nearly continuously sending uux results
> to each other,then the results of those results, ad infinitum.  How can
> this be stopped?  Does anyone have a "fixed" uux for the AT&T unix pc?
> Thanks for any help, it would be really appreciated.

You can use the -n option to uux if you never want to see the
results of the uux.  Otherwise, you need a version of uucp that
understand's the -z option... namely HDB.
-- 
Dave Arnold
dave at arnold.UUCP	{cci632|uunet}!ccicpg!arnold!dave



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