Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!ctisbv!pim
From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: uucico problem with flow control
Keywords: uucico flow control 386ix
Message-ID: <1360@ctisbv.cti-software.nl>
Date: 16 Aug 89 01:24:48 GMT
References: <208@bulus3.BMA.COM>
Organization: CTI Software BV, The Hague, the Netherlands
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haugen@bulus3.BMA.COM (John M. Haugen) writes:

>I recently have been having problems with uucico having problems receiving
>large files from my news feed.  When run with Uutry, I see bunches of
>"alarm " messages and eventually the transfer fails. 

>My modem is a Telebit TrailBlazerPlus/T200 set to run at 9600 baud and to use
>XON/XOFF flow control.  My OS is 386ix 2.0.2 from Interactive Systems.
^^^^^^^^^

Several people have explained that uucp does not use XON/XOFF.
I would like to add to this that the reason for the alarm messages
probarly is because the modem got stuck on a ^S in the data stream.

Reprogram yout modem not to use XON/XOFF.
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