[TUHS] uucp protocol nits

Arthur Krewat krewat at kilonet.net
Sat Mar 11 07:42:16 AEST 2017


Absolutely! We were talking about that earlier in the list, maybe not 
this subject line though.



On 3/10/2017 3:34 PM, Ron Natalie wrote:
>> 'g' protocol was what everyone ran. 64 byte packets, in a three packet
> window.  By default.  But 'g' could really race along, if provoked.  The
> window could slide up to seven!  Unless you were running Xenix, where
>> that provoked a core dump.  On most systems, increasing the window size
> meant binary patching uucico.
>
> Anybody remember the Telebit trailblazer modems that snooped on the g
> protocol going through them?
>
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