Do Hayes modems work with uucp?

20 earlw at pesnta.UUCP
Sat Oct 19 09:24:37 AEST 1985


In article <246 at geowhiz.UUCP> karsh at geowhiz.UUCP (Bruce Karsh) writes:
>I have been told that Hayes modems can not be made to work properly
>with uucp because the Hayes modem will intercept and munge some
>sequences of characters that uucp sends.  Is this true?  Has
>anybody made uucp work with Hayes modems?

pesnta has used Hayes 1200 modems for a couple of years and they do the job
of pushing news/mail/uucp quite well.  If the Hayes sees one second of
dead time, followed by +++ and another second of dead time, it will go 
'command mode' and that will cause a uucp timeout.  This should be rare.



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