[comp.mail.uucp] UUPC problem

stevesc@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Schonberger) (12/03/89)

I'm running UUPC, the version marked "post-1.0-interim", and I've been
having a strange problem.  I have three mail links.  Two of them work
consistently, and I have yet to see a single packet error except when
I've picked up the other extension during a connection.  The third
link behaves strangely.  If all of the files I transfer are small (I
think under around 1K), everything works correctly.  That is, the
files transfer with no errors.  (I get a message like "1234 packets
transferred, 0 errors" in the log file.)  I can receive files of any
size with no errors also.  But if I try to send a file larger than
about 1K, I get a message in my log file like "22 packets transferred,
200 errors" (the 22 is typical but not consistent, but it's always
200), and the file isn't transferred.  I've asked the system
administrator of that link about the problem, and the administrator 
of another site that talks to that system, and neither has heard of
any such problem before.  Is this a known bug in UUPC?  Is it a bug in
UUPC at all, or possibly a hardware problem?

I don't often read this newsgroup, so please mail any replies to me
either here or at my site.  If a lot of people express interest, I'll
post a summary.

-- 
	Steve Schonberger	microsoft!stevesc@uunet.uu.net
	"Working under pressure is the sugar that we crave" --A. Lamb
	also:  root@sensual.wa.com

kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) (12/04/89)

In article <9237@microsoft.UUCP> stevesc@microsoft.UUCP root@sensual.wa.com writes:
* I'm running UUPC, the version marked "post-1.0-interim", and I've been
* having a strange problem.  I have three mail links.  Two of them work
* consistently, and I have yet to see a single packet error except when
* I've picked up the other extension during a connection.  The third
* link behaves strangely.  If all of the files I transfer are small (I
* think under around 1K), everything works correctly.  That is, the
* files transfer with no errors.  (I get a message like "1234 packets
* transferred, 0 errors" in the log file.)  I can receive files of any
* size with no errors also.  But if I try to send a file larger than
* about 1K, I get a message in my log file like "22 packets transferred,
* 200 errors" (the 22 is typical but not consistent, but it's always
* 200), and the file isn't transferred.  I've asked the system
* administrator of that link about the problem, and the administrator 
* of another site that talks to that system, and neither has heard of
* any such problem before.  Is this a known bug in UUPC?  Is it a bug in
* UUPC at all, or possibly a hardware problem?
Hummm...   is/are one/both systems using/misusing/notusing flow control?
Like XON/XOFF?