what does this error message mean?

[deraadt]

woods at eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) writes:
>  mike at vort.uucp (Mike Nemeth) writes:
>  > hardware: IPC 386, USR Courier v.32 modem
>  > software: ISC 3.2.2
>  > problem: uucico failing on large file transfer.
>  > news calgary  (1/10-4:17:01,11577,1) IN SEND/SLAVE MODE (INPUT FAILURE)
>  > news calgary  (1/10-4:17:01,11577,1) FAILED (conversation complete)
>
>   It means the other end dropped the line on you, probably because the
>  job you sent was too big for their ULIMIT.

Nope. calgary does not have any sort of ulimit. SunOS4.1.1. No quotas on
that 280M total/150M free partition. I should know, as calgary ==
cpsc.ucalgary.ca. vort has fairly large ulimit for uucp as well..
 <tdr.

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