UUCP TIMEOUTS

[Brian Smithson]

igb at fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:

>In article <1991Feb24.175541.540 at britesun.radig.de> vhs at britesun.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) writes:
>> I had the very same problem with the uucico on my SparcStation 1. In fact
>> I actually patched the uucico-binary to get a timeout of 64 seconds instead
>> of the hard-coded(!) 45 seconds. Here is the program I used:

>For ANY CASE of waiting for xxx, you can double the wait period
>by writing xxx-\c-xxx, triple it with xxx-\c-xxx-\c-xxx and so on.

Alternatively, you can insert delays before you starting the "expect".
For example (in HDB),

  ... "" \d\d\d\d\d\c CONNECT ...

will expect nothing, delay about 10 seconds, and then expect CONNECT.

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