UUCP over SunLink X.25, unbundled products, parity

Carl S. Gutekunst csg at pyramid.pyramid.com
Tue May 10 14:44:31 AEST 1988


>>While they're at it, Sun and friends (enemies?) should fix UUCICO to
>>support 4.2BSD UUCP's ability to specify ODD or EVEN parity when dialing
>>into the remote system.

>Now I have yet to personally experience SUN uucico but all the others, 4.2,
>v7 and SCO Xenix2.1.3, can set parity this way [P_ZERO, et al] and I expect
>that SUN's version also has this capability.

This net never ceases to amaze me. Such wholesale quantities of conjecture for
such a trifling investment in fact. :-(

Truscott 4.2BSD has the P_ZERO, P_ONE, P_EVEN, P_ODD arguments, and of course
so does 4.3BSD. Neither version of v7 does, nor does any System V version, nor
does SunOS. Xenix may well, although if it does then this was added by Micro-
soft, since they were starting with the System VR2.2 VAX version. 

<csg>



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