dmmartindale (08/25/82)
Actually, there are two constants which together determine the total amount of time uucico will wait for the other end to reply before giving up: PKTIME and GETRIES. Their product is the total timeout interval. Increasing PKTIME alone does increase the interval, but it also increases the amount of line time wasted if a packet is lost and a retransmission is actually needed. GETRIES is simply a maximum retry count, and changes the total timeout period without affecting the packet timeout. We've been running for the last month or so with PKTIME set back to 10 (the distributed value) but with GETRIES grown from 5 to 10, which seems to work well for us. To get longer timeouts than this, you probably want to grow both constants.