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From: obrien@hulk.sfsu.edu (Jonathan O'Brien)
Subject: serial port w/uucp
Message-ID: <1994Jan17.084116.18433@csus.edu>
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Keywords: serial uucp 8n1
Sender: news@csus.edu
Organization: SFC
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 08:41:16 GMT
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I'm trying to setup FreeBSD 1.0.2 to work with ccMail's uucp product 
(which is really the uupc package with some extras). For those that
don't know, uupc uses the 'g' protocol which requires an 8 bit clean
connection.

The chat script went just fine, but when it came time to transfer
data, the remote pc would error out with bad packet header problems.
I talked with ccMail, they said my connection wasn't 8 bit clean.

So I went and did my homework on minnie, and found out about the :np:
flag. Added it to gettytab and everything worked great, I was able
to recieve uucp transfers, but whenever I had to send data the remote
machine, it would go into slave mode:

	sbreak: putting server in slave mode

which then resulted in the same packet header errors. I guessed that
the port was being set back to the defaults. Then I decided to modify
ttydefaults.h by removing ISTRIP, PARENB, and changing CS7 to CS8.
After recompiling and installing getty, login, and all the software
from src/gnu, I still have the problem. What do I need to do to make
my system 8N1 and only 8N1?

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Jonathan O'Brien                               obrien@hulk.sfsu.edu
San Francisco State University                 obrien@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu