A couple of weeks ago, I posted question about P_ZERO in my uucp chat
scripts. Basically everyone said the same thing, although I did receive
the following.
On Thu, 3 Dec 92 23:42:39 PST, todd@macsch.com (Todd Williams) said:
Subject: P_ZERO
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| Frequently Asked Questions for Comp.sys.sun.admin
|
| Last update Nov 5 1992
|
| ...
|
| 35) I can't get my Sun, running SunOS 4.1[.x], to establish a UUCP
| connection to some non-Sun machine; it won't log in. What's wrong?
|
| The 4.1[.x] UUCP normally runs in even-parity mode when logging
| into another machine. If the other machine is running in 8
| bits, no parity, mode, the fact that the 8th bit is set on some
| of the characters the Sun is sending to it will confuse it.
|
| The Sun can be made to turn the 8th bit off by putting P_ZERO in
| the appropriate place in the appropriate UUCP configuration file
| [I may have been the one to put P_ZERO there, but I forget the
| details; it's in the send-expect sequence in the Systems file
| entry for the machine, and I think you have an "expect" string
| of "" - i.e., "expect nothing" - and a "send" string of P_ZERO -
| i.e., make the parity bit zero. Check the UUCP stuff in the
| "Systems and Network Administration" document to make sure.]
|
|
+--------------- End of Excerpt todd@macsch.com (Todd Williams)
On Thu, 26 Nov 92 19:20:43 PST, gday@inde.bc.ca (Gordon Day) said:
Subject: Re: P_ZERO in Dialers...
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| Actually, I asked sl@wimsey.bc.ca :-). Also, a "strings /lib/uucp/uucico"
| reveals interesting things like:
|
| P_ZERO
| P_ONE
| P_EVEN
| P_ODD
|
+--------------- End of Excerpt gday@inde.bc.ca (Gordon Day)
= Mak
P.S. Thanks to all the contributors.
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