uucico is eating my outgoing mail!

[Pete Holsberg]

In article <989 at icus.islp.ny.us> lenny at icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
=In article <1989Oct16.181609.14182 at mccc.uucp> pjh at mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) 
=writes:
=|>What causes the "BAD READ (expected 'C' got FAIL)"??
=
=Basically when uucico is going through it's handshaking to coordinate between
=the different files to send the ("D.*" and "X.*" files), uucico will stop
=after each file and wait for an <ACK>nowledgement from the other site.
=
=*** TOP ***  -  role=1, setline - X
=Request: icus!D.icus1eac709 --> att!D.icus1eac709 (lenny)
=setline - S
=wrktype - S
= wmesg 'S' D.icus1eac709 D.icus1eac709 lenny - D.icus1eac709 0666 lenny
=rmesg - 'S' got SY
= PROCESS: msg - SY
=SNDFILE:
=-> 1683 / 1.416 = 1188.5
=rmesg - 'C' got CY             
= PROCESS: msg - CY
=...
= 
=		^^ If for some reason the remote site doesn't send back
=		   anything, or gets out of sync, or there is noise on the
=		   line... several (10 I think) alarm() calls will happen.
=		   and eventually it will timeout with the message.
=		   BAD READ (expected 'C' got FAIL)
=
Now the question is, what would cause the remote to sedn nothing or get out of
sync consistently???

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