fred.umcp-cs@Udel-Relay@sri-unix (08/29/82)
From: Fred Blonder <fred.umcp-cs@Udel-Relay> Date: 23 Aug 82 23:53:11-EDT (Mon) From: parker at Nrl-Css (Alan Parker) I am bringing up uucp on our 4.1 system. We want to use it to talk to a unix system that is connected through a Gandalf front-end. My problem is how to make uucp send an initial <return> before starting its [expect] [send] protocol. Is there a simple answer before I make a special case modification? We (The University of Maryland) have been polling the Ballistics Research Lab, which has a Gandalf front end, for several months. The magic line in the L.sys file is: brl-bmd Any tty6 1200 5551212 "" "" class-""-class bmd start "" Name: \ uucp Password: xxxx In other words, expect null-string is perfectly valid. We (and everyone else who uucps to BRL) had to change the last ``write'' statement in the subroutine ``sendthem()'' (in conn.c) to: ``write(fn, "\r", 1);'', because the Gandalf doesn't respond to newlines. This hasn't caused us any problems with the other systems we run uucp with.