uucico problem

[Marc Shannon]

In article <7251 at brazos.Rice.edu>, whitney!vlb at sunkist.west.sun.com (Virginia L. Baca) writes:
> I am having a problem connecting to usenet with uucp.  Every time I try to
> uucico -r1 -x5 -suunet we DO NOT have a problem.  When I try uucico -r1
> -suunet, I get hung up for 5 minutes waiting for the slave to respond with
> 'H'Y or N. uucico gets timed out with "BAD READ expected 'H' got FAIL".
> Since uucico will only work with the -x option, I don't have a copy of the
> failed script. 

I was experiencing a similar problem with my Data-over-Voice connection to
CMU at 9600 bps (anyone know a way to allow UUCICO to work at 19200? :-)).

My problem was that I was sending the signon data too fast.  Our Micom
port selector couldn't handle the data being typed in at true 9600 bps.
Once I inserted a \d between each character sent, everything went fine.

It's hard to believe that this would be your problem as well, especially
since you're running at 2400 baud, but anything's possible.

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