[comp.unix.xenix] uux fault on SCO Xenix

root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) (10/08/88)

SCO Xenix 80286 version 2.2.1, the "uux" command gives a stack overflow
and then bus error and core dump when executed with a command like:

# uux "remotesystem!/usr/bin/uucp localsystem!~/filename ~/filename"

Anyone know why? Have I used the command incorrectly?

Thanks!

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debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) (10/11/88)

In article <172@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
>
>SCO Xenix 80286 version 2.2.1, the "uux" command gives a stack overflow
>and then bus error and core dump when executed with a command like:
>
># uux "remotesystem!/usr/bin/uucp localsystem!~/filename ~/filename"
>
>Anyone know why? Have I used the command incorrectly?
>
>Thanks!
>

I thought this was a well known problem, but apparently it is not.

As far as I know uux in 2.2.1 is plain broken.

If you have 2.1.3 or something, use the uux from that version. Works
just fine with Xenix 2.2.1.

Paul.

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wrp@biochsn.acc.virginia.edu (William R. Pearson) (10/12/88)

In article <8284@alice.UUCP> debra@alice.UUCP () writes:
]In article <172@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
]]
]]SCO Xenix 80286 version 2.2.1, the "uux" command gives a stack overflow
]]and then bus error and core dump when executed with a command like:
]]
]]# uux "remotesystem!/usr/bin/uucp localsystem!~/filename ~/filename"
]]
]]Anyone know why? Have I used the command incorrectly?
]
]I thought this was a well known problem, but apparently it is not.
]
]As far as I know uux in 2.2.1 is plain broken.
]
	I use uux on a 2.2.1 system all of the time, although
I mostly simply do a cat ... | uux - 

	I use this for psroff and printing with no problems.

Bill Pearson

jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) (10/19/88)

In article <8284@alice.UUCP> debra@alice.UUCP () writes:
>In article <172@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
>>SCO Xenix 80286 version 2.2.1, the "uux" command gives a stack overflow
>>and then bus error and core dump when executed with a command like:
>>
>># uux "remotesystem!/usr/bin/uucp localsystem!~/filename ~/filename"
>>
>>Anyone know why? Have I used the command incorrectly?
>
>I thought this was a well known problem, but apparently it is not.
>
>As far as I know uux in 2.2.1 is plain broken.

This is not the most useful answer in the entire world.  Would someone
[ preferably from SCO ] care to explain exactly what is wrong with it?

And to answer Jay's original question, [ now that I have a copy of the
posting and a manual in front of me ] he is using the command correctly.
Although, he doesn't need to execute the remote uucp since his uux is
already going to have copied the file from localsystem to remotesystem.

For the record, I tried

uux 'pigs!/usr/bin/uucp rpp386!/usr/archive/scheme/siod.shar.Z ~/siod.shar.Z'

uux 'pigs!/usr/bin/uucp (rpp386!/usr/archive/scheme/siod.shar.Z) \
	(~/siod.shar.Z)'

uux 'pigs!/usr/bin/uucp rpp386!~/siod.shar.Z ~/siod.shar.Z'

all of which worked.  Well, none of which worked, but that is a L.cmds
kind of thing ;-)
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