UUCP on Unix PC V 3.51

[gary sarff]

I am having a bit of a problem transferring a file uucp.  I very rarely have
had any problems, unlike some of the other people here apparently.  Anyway
I am trying to retrieve via uucp from another site a compressed tar file.
It is about 438K compressed, about 980K uncompressed.  About 150K into the
file uucico (running in the background from my shell) says:
r short 2 want 3
rcount=0
xcount=0

This is an error message?  The LOGFILE in /usr/lib/uucp says
INPUT ERROR IN SEND/SLAVE mode
which is odd because I am starting uucico as
/usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -s<system> &  (to fork into the background)
doesn't this make me master (role=1) and I am receiving a file not sending
it.  Or is that error log line from the other uucp?  I am confused, I've
not had problems like this before and my system gets pretty heavy uucp
usage, I get news every day and feed another system from mine. I cannot get
that particular file to arrive at my site though.  Any insights?  Thanks.

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Gary Sarff           {uunet|ihnp4|philabs}!spies!ssdis!gsarff
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