uucp Dialout via decserver?

[David - Schenfeld]

I spent a week playing with tip (and cu) on Ultrix 4.0 with a DECSERVER 200
and I couldn't get it to work.  I kept getting "all ports busy"..  I called
DEC and they spent a few hours with me trying to get tip to work.  
We got tip to work SOMETIMES by lowing the baud rate for the service
I was trying to call (in the /etc/remote file) to 2400 from 19200.  This 
didn't make too much sense to us because this was going over a LAT.  One
of the DEC people told me that tip may not support "19200" as a baud rate.
Anyway, I still couldn't get it to work reliably.  
It suddenly dawned on me that tip may be tiping out trying to open the port
(because of the longer time it may take to open the port on the LAT)... 

The solution:  I figured I'd try to get tip sources and see what it was doing.
I FTP'd sources from wuarchive.wustl.edu, made minor revisions to the source
to get it to compile, and it worked fine!!!  I didn't have to tamper with the
way tip opened the ports.  I wonder what DEC did to get their tip to be
so picky!
-David