UNIXPC uucp problem

[Robert J. Granvin]

> Bruce and I managed to track down and solve (sort of) this problem;
>it was apparently a bad USERFILE. However, I looked at it and it
>looked fine, and very similar to the one I use here. Are there any
>known limitations of the 3.51 USERFILE? 

One.  If you add your 101st entry, it'll "die."

Oh, it's even better than that.  No system will ever be able to make a
UUCP connection with your machine until you bring to to 100 entries or
under.  Neat?  

> Also, are there any guides to 'troubleshooting UUCP connections'?
>I've got quite good at finding problems (having stubbed my toes on
>most of them by now :-(), but there are undoubtedly other traps just
>lurking out there just waiting for me. I have the Nutshell handbook
>_Managing UUCP and USENET_ and have found it quite valuable; is there
>anything else people would recommend? Better yet, is there some
>documentation on the bugs ... ahem, idiosyncracies of the stock 3B1
>uucp?

The 3b1 has a goofy OBM.  (Also, please refer to some immediately
previous replies to other messages).

Asides from handshaking an OBM connection and then not knowing what to
do from there, it's also something that is apparently out of spec from
certain areas.  Some modems, including Telebit's under certain
connections will always hang up after attempting to establish a
connection with the given carrier.  The "unusual" thing about it also,
is that if you dial _out_ using the OBM into one of these modems, the
same connection will be rejected as well.


Otherwise, the 3b1 generally operates similarly or as well as other
System V machines/implementations (not taking the bug list into
account, of course :-)

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