Obnoxious load-dependant bug in UUCP

[Eric Dittman]

> I received the same errors for a time when I was setting up uucp, they were
> related to a flow control problem. Since the Mac cannot support hardware
> flow control and modem control at the same time, and since modem control is
> essential for security and other reasons, you cannot use flow control at
> all, which means you can't use the Telebit's auto baud rate translation
> feature. Before I came to my senses and realised this, I tried using software
> flow control (XON/XOFF). Of course, you can't use software flow control
> with uucp. The result of doing so was the same type of error messages
> described above.

Apple should allow HSKi/HSKo for hardware flow control and GPi for
carrier detect.  This would be the best compromise.

-- 
Eric Dittman
Texas Instruments - Component Test Facility
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dittman at skbat.csc.ti.com

Disclaimer:  I don't speak for Texas Instruments or the Component Test
             Facility.  I don't even speak for myself.