need help with uucp messsages

[dennisb at tsdiag.UUCP]

 For the past few weeks I have been trying patiently to set up uucp. I have
read the documentation on the net a few weeks ago, and gone as far as buying
UNIX COMMUNICATIONS by Sams & Company (great book), but still have no success.
The persons that ported this copy are now long gone. I know it did work a few
years ago (yuk yuk) but this has me for a loop. 

 I can connect to the remote system, but once we get into the protocol, I 
bomb out. I have run UUCICO with x9, and I get into a loop with the remote
sending me a CNTL 377777611 about 10 times, but I never respond to it.
The following is a copy of my LOGFILE.     
 
tsdiag!uucp (2/16-18:48:24) (C,386,0) C.tsdiag (bldfl)
tsdiag!uucp (2/16-18:48:41) (C,386,0) OK (MODEM tty1 16)
tsdiag!uucp (2/16-18:48:46) (C,386,0) SUCCEEDED (call to tsdiag )
tsdiag!uucp (2/16-18:48:49) (C,386,0) Shere=tsdiag (HERE)
tsdiag!uucp (2/16-18:48:54) (C,386,0) dlb (send Myname)
tsdiag!uucp (2/16-18:49:00) (C,386,0) OK (startup)
tsdiag!uucp (2/16-18:49:03) (C,386,0) C.tsdiag (bldfl)
tsdiag!uucp (2/16-18:50:51) (C,386,0) BAD READ (expected 'H' got FAIL)
tsdiag!uucp (2/16-18:50:51) (C,386,0) FAILED (conversation complete)
tsdiag!uucp (2/16-18:56:02) (C,398,0) NO WORK (tsdiag)

Any ideas at all would be appreciated. I could supply the UUCICO X9, but 
thought it would be a little excess right now. HELP....

    thanks,
        Dennis

SNA WAS NEVER THIS DIFFICULT 
-- 
Dennis Lee Black                                 Concurrent Computer Corp
                                                 Cust Serv, Data Comm Sup
"When people cease to complain, they cease       40 Pine Street
 to think"          Napoleon                     Neptune, New Jersey 07756