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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:21:03 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Jos Backus <jos@oce.nl>
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Subject: Re: Problem getting UUCP to talk to SCO UNIX
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On Tue, Aug 26, 1997 at 11:21:44AM +0200, Jos Backus wrote:
>
> [My apologies for this slightly off-topic question...]

I don't think it's off-topic.

> I am trying to get the version of Taylor UUCP (1.06.1) supplied with FreeBSD
> to talk to some SCO UNIX 3.2 systems.
>
> The problem: the remote login prompt appears after dialing, the account name
> gets sent and then the BSD uucico times out waiting for the ``word:'' prompt
> to return.  In fact, nothing gets sent back at all (according to the Debug
> log).
>
> The SCO Technical FAQ mentions this to be a parity-related issue and talks
> about adding ``"" P_ZERO'' to a V2 UUCP chat script, but Taylor UUCP doesn't
> have this exact option. I tried adding ``chat-seven-bit false'' to the sys
> description, but that doesn't make any difference.

The FAQ is almost certainly wrong.

> Help please :-)

Here's my sys file entry for talking to scolon, SCO's uucp site in
London.  Read the comments and grin.

system scolon
myname lemis
protocol-parameter g packet-size 4096 window 7
time Any
port v32v42
phone 00441923210911
# SCO Systems are so slow that you need to pause after the login: prompt
# and before entering the user ID.
chat "" \r\c gin:-BREAK-gin: \d\L sword: \P
call-login uusls
call-password bbsuucp
local-send /
local-receive /

In other words, it's still waiting for the login, since it wasn't
ready for it when you sent it :-) You should be able to use this entry
directly, unless they have changed the phone numbers.

Greg