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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: 4.2 uucp seems to die....
Message-ID: <2142@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Feb-84 04:16:29 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 18 04:16:29 1984
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Uucico needs an absolutely transparent 8-bit data path from one host
to the other.  Anything sitting in between which modifies the data stream
in anyway (such as generating or responding specially to XON/XOFF will
break it.  The best fix is to build a special protocol, to be used instead
of the default 'g' protocol, which takes care not to transmit XON or
XOFF by changing them into a 2-char escape sequence instead.  We've been
running such code for about 2 years to talk over a Sytek localnet
and it seems to be fine.