Need help with UUCP over X.25

[Jim Reid]

In article <532 at argus.UUCP> ken at argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) writes:
>In article <44700004 at cdp>, scott at cdp.UUCP writes:
>> 
>> I would like to talk to someone who has an X.25 connection to
>> Telenet, runs SysVr2 vanilla UUCP or something close, and has
>> people call them via Telenet to run UUCP.
>
>If you get this to work I'd be interested.  About a year ago this
>site tried to get uucp to work over a couple Dynapac X.25 pads.
>It never worked.  Apparently the problem is that uucp does not
>have an option to use only 7 bit data transfer.  It seems that
>all the options uucp has are variations of the same single option.
>By the way, I never found documentation that says that uucp needs
>8 bit transfer, the local Unix guru swears that uucp works 7 bit
>however.  Can anyone confirm or deny this?

UKUUCP (essentially a much hacked Honey Danber UUCP) runs over X.25 OK.
It has been made to use a 7 bit data transfer and should be quite portable.
I know it works on BSD VAXes and 64Kbyte PDP 11's and should go on Sys V
too.

		Jim

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