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[barry at ism780.UUCP]

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ism780!barry    Apr  9 11:44:00 1984

Yes, when I worked for Sytek, L.A. I set up uucp which ran on their LocalNet
setup. This included 6 machines locally (all Momentum Hawk 32's running v7
UNIX) and a connection from one of the Hawks to the VAX at Sytek's Mountain
View site.

Make sure that the "COMMAND" string at both ends of the connect is set to
NONE and that FLOW is set compatibly at all FOUR points (BOTH ttys on each
machine must be checked (uucico may be turning flow control on or off) AND
each of the Sytek T-boxes must be set the same). Also make sure that your
stty settings for erase and kill at each port are not '#' and '@' -- this
might cause you to lose characters. I would advise you to start at 300 baud
on the sending end and 300 or 1200 baud at the receiving end and turn off flow
control all together -- the Sytek hardware will adjust the baud rates, and
removing the flow control all together simplifies the situation. Because of
problems with our UUCP software, I ended up having to run uucp at our site
without flow control at 1200 baud. This worked fine; I didn't test it too
much at higher speeds without flow control.

By the way, the problems I had with bringing up UUCP had very little to do
with the Sytek hardware, which I believe is a very good product. You just
have to make sure that the connection is transparent which can be done by
setting COMMAND to NONE and FLOW to appropriate values for your connection.
I believe that there is one other setting which may be relevant (i.e. may
interpret characters being passed through), but I don't remember what it is
and I don't have a Sytek booklet at hand.

			Good Luck (with uucp you generally need it!) --
				Barry Holroyd