uucp VS 4.2 - (nf)

[William L. Sebok]

>  But if the line is so noisy as to cause the first few
> login attemps to fail, does uucp want to login at all?
> Perry		convex!smu!pedz

Yes it very well may, because at that point it has not yet agreed on a protocol
with the other computer.  Once login has successfully occured uucico switches
to an error correcting protocol which is much more tolerant of noisy lines.
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Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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