jr@wlcrjs.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) (11/25/84)
What is the fanciest version of uucp that is public domain? I have a problem with uucico on my system (Venix 86 on an IBM PC) and have no source license. When dialing some telephone numbers (Hayes-compatible auto-dialer) the call can take just long enough to complete that uucico times out. Just as the connect is about to be established, uucico goes on to the next entry in the expect/send sequence and sends a linefeed to the ACU. Alas, for a Hayes type modem this aborts the dial. I've heard of versions of uucp that allow an escape sequence in the expect/send squence to defeat this, but I don't think that works on my system. I'd like a version of uucp to hack to allow the Hayes to do the autodial safely. Is there a version of uucp that some kind soul might be good enough to post to net.sources? -Thanks! Jim Rosenberg decvax!idis!pitt!amanuen!jr
gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) (11/27/84)
> I have a problem > with uucico on my system (Venix 86 on an IBM PC) and have no source license. ... > I've heard of versions of uucp that allow an > escape sequence in the expect/send squence to defeat this, but I don't think > that works on my system. > Jim Rosenberg In general if you have a problem with vendor-supplied software and no source license, it's time to call your vendor. If you don't like your vendor's support, you should have picked another vendor (or sprung roughly $50K for the source license). Without legal sources, all we can do for you is explain the problem, not fix it. > Is there a version of uucp that some kind > soul might be good enough to post to net.sources? There are at least three or four people who know enough to rewrite uucp in the public domain (Bell owns the "real" one). One of them claims to have done so -- Lauren Weinstein. However, he wants to make some money on it before (if ever?) releasing it to the public domain. Last I heard of any progress on it was about a year ago. What's up Lauren?
geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) (11/29/84)
In article <421@wlcrjs.UUCP> jr@wlcrjs.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes: >When dialing some telephone numbers (Hayes-compatible auto-dialer) the call >can take just long enough to complete that uucico times out. Have you tried putting the "\d" (delay 1 second) escape sequence at the end of the "send" sequence to cause a delay before uucico starts its timeout? I have never seen \d documented, but it is in many uucico's. -- Geoff Kuenning ...!ihnp4!trwrb!desint!geoff