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From: ru...@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Mike Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: ULTRIX uucp vs. 4.3bsd (and others)
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Date: Fri, 9-May-86 12:01:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 9 12:01:00 1986
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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It seems that ULTRIX uucp defaults to "send even parity and accept
ONLY EVEN PARITY". This makes it unable to converse with various
other systems, including (it seems) 4.3bsd. The fix: you must put
the magic cookie "P_ZERO" in your send-expect sequence, e.g.
foovax Any ACU 1200 5551212 "" P_ZERO ....
--Mike Rubin Timeplex, Inc. {topaz, philabs!wu1}!timeplex!mrubin
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From: k...@ektools.UUCP (Kenneth J. Lester)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: ULTRIX uucp vs. 4.3bsd (and others)
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Date: Mon, 12-May-86 16:31:33 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 12 16:31:33 1986
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In article <4...@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> ru...@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Mike Rubin) writes:
>
>It seems that ULTRIX uucp defaults to "send even parity and accept
>ONLY EVEN PARITY". This makes it unable to converse with various
>other systems, including (it seems) 4.3bsd. The fix: you must put
>the magic cookie "P_ZERO" in your send-expect sequence, e.g.
> foovax Any ACU 1200 5551212 "" P_ZERO ....
>
>--Mike Rubin Timeplex, Inc. {topaz, philabs!wu1}!timeplex!mrubin
We were using Ultrix-32 1.1 on a VAX 750, and have made uucp connections to
various unix machines (Version 7, Sun 2.2, and System 5.2) without running
into any parity problems. A week ago we upgrade to Ultrix-32 1.2 and it
didn't break any of our uucp connections. We do not use P_ZERO in our
send-expect sequence. In fact the uucp installation and administration
manual for both versions state that P_ZERO is the default.
It would be helpful if you stated the exact version of Ultrix that is causing
this difficulty.
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From: ru...@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Mike Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: ULTRIX uucp vs. 4.3bsd (and others)
Message-ID: <4971@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Thu, 15-May-86 19:44:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 15 19:44:47 1986
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Summary: Ultrix 1.1; it may not have been a bug
> >It seems that ULTRIX uucp defaults to "send even parity and accept
> >ONLY EVEN PARITY"....
>
> We were using Ultrix-32 1.1 on a VAX 750, and have made uucp connections to
> various unix machines (Version 7, Sun 2.2, and System 5.2) without running
> into any parity problems.... [and Ultrix 1.2 also works]
We're also running Ultrix-32 1.1 on a VAX-750; from the replies on the
net I am beginning to suspect our modems (Microcom's) are munging something
although I told them to use 8 bits, no parity. Oh well.
Wasn't there traffic on the net a while back describing some uucp problem
between Ultrix and 4.3?
--Mike Rubin {topaz, philabs!wu1}!timeplex!mrubin
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From: avo...@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: ULTRIX uucp vs. 4.3bsd (and others)
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Date: Wed, 21-May-86 23:53:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 21 23:53:59 1986
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In article <4...@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>, ru...@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Mike Rubin) writes:
> We're also running Ultrix-32 1.1 on a VAX-750; from the replies on the
> net I am beginning to suspect our modems (Microcom's) are munging something
> ... Wasn't there traffic on the net a while back describing some uucp problem
> between Ultrix and 4.3?
Look, for the record... We run Ultrix-32 V1.2. We ran V1.1 and V1.0.
Ran all the field test versions in between. We talk to System V
systems, 4.2BSD systems, 4.1C systems, V7 systems, 4.3 systems, and
System III systems. We talk to Goulds, Pyramids, other VAXes, Wicats
(at a time), and a 3B-something. We don't have problems with UUCP to
any of them. The same can be said for DECVAX, a usenet backbone site.
Why DECVAX even talks to european systems! :-)
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