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Re: 4.3BSD uucp bugs?

#646
From: George Robbins
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1986 20:10
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In article <5493@gatech.EDU> spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) writes:
>In article <8766@sun.uucp> shannon@sun.uucp (Bill Shannon) writes:
>>Recently two sites that we talk to upgraded to the 4.3BSD uucp
>>(one running on 4.3, the other running it on some other system).
>>Immediately after they upgraded, we began having problems talking
>>to them.  Our conversations would usually end in the middle with
>>"expected 'S', got FAIL" or something similar.  One of the sites
>>has since converted back to the 4.2 uucp and the problems have
>>disappeared.  Has anyone else had similar problems?  Does anyone
>>know of any bugs in the 4.3 uucp?
>
>Yes indeedy.  The following change to pk1.c should fix the problem your
>neighbors are having.  Symptoms are that the bug manifests itself when
>noise causes a packet to get mangled and you get an EXPECT/FAIL error.
>Somebody broke the code between the Beta release version and the final
>4.3 release.

Does anybody know if this also crept into Ultrix 1.2?  I've been getting
a lot of these EXPECT/FAIL errors lately...
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)
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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.COM (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: 4.3BSD uucp bugs?
Message-ID: <961@cbmvax.cbmvax.commodore.COM>
Date: Mon, 3-Nov-86 15:10:54 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.961
Posted: Mon Nov  3 15:10:54 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Nov-86 08:26:15 EST
References: <8766@sun.uucp> <5493@gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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