uucico problem with flow control

Pim Zandbergen pim at cti-software.nl
Wed Aug 16 11:24:48 AEST 1989


haugen at bulus3.BMA.COM (John M. Haugen) writes:

>I recently have been having problems with uucico having problems receiving
>large files from my news feed.  When run with Uutry, I see bunches of
>"alarm " messages and eventually the transfer fails. 

>My modem is a Telebit TrailBlazerPlus/T200 set to run at 9600 baud and to use
>XON/XOFF flow control.  My OS is 386ix 2.0.2 from Interactive Systems.
^^^^^^^^^

Several people have explained that uucp does not use XON/XOFF.
I would like to add to this that the reason for the alarm messages
probarly is because the modem got stuck on a ^S in the data stream.

Reprogram yout modem not to use XON/XOFF.
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