From: utzoo!decvax!cca!fred.umcp-cs@Udel-Relay@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: UUCP through a Gandalf
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2983
Posted: Sun Aug 29 00:33:31 1982
Received: Thu Sep  9 06:44:45 1982

From:     Fred Blonder 
Date:     23 Aug 82 23:53:11-EDT (Mon)
From: parker at Nrl-Css (Alan Parker)

	I am bringing up uucp on our 4.1 system.  We want to use it to
	talk to a unix system that is connected through a Gandalf
	front-end.  My problem is how to make uucp send an initial
	 before starting its [expect] [send] protocol.  Is
	there a simple answer before I make a special case
	modification?

We (The University of Maryland) have been polling the Ballistics
Research Lab, which has a Gandalf front end, for several months. The
magic line in the L.sys file is:

	brl-bmd Any tty6 1200 5551212 "" "" class-""-class bmd start "" Name: \
	uucp Password: xxxx

In other words, expect null-string is perfectly valid. We (and everyone
else who uucps to BRL) had to change the last ``write'' statement in
the subroutine ``sendthem()'' (in conn.c) to: ``write(fn, "\r", 1);'',
because the Gandalf doesn't respond to newlines. This hasn't caused us
any problems with the other systems we run uucp with.