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From: stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth)
Subject: Re: Strange Taylor UUCP problem on Freebsd 2.1.0
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Vincent Archer (archer@hsc.fr) wrote:
: Got a strange problem using Taylor UUCP 1.06 (coming straight out of the
: FreeBSD 2.1 cdrom). I'm supposed to call from a Solaris 2.4 (HDB UUCP),
: so I'm stuck to protocol "g". The BSD machine reported all kind of checksum
: errors, ending the transfer after 10mn (for a single remote command!).

: I tried to recompile UUCP 1.06.1, and ended having two BSD machines, using
: both the same uucico binary, and still gets the checksum errors on each
: "g" protocol packet.

As far as I remember my "old" SUN days (nice word btw....) the problem
ist the UUCP at the Solaris's Side. There had to be an parameter added
in the Solaris UUCP Config files. If I remember right it was
something that changed the parity....

Regards Stephan

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