Re: UUCP question

Krzysztof Adamski (kadamski@netsurf.net)
Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:52:02 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Per Hedeland wrote:

> Krzysztof Adamski writes:
> >Well, it didn't work. After some investigating I found that there is some
> >garbage given to the stdin when it comes from the Portmaster.
>
> Yes, that's telnet option negotiation (covered by my reference to
> "transparency problems":-) - Unix telnet clients typically don't do that
> when connecting to something other than telnetd, but apparently the PM
> does. Try the netdata service instead, i.e.
>
> ...
> Login-Service = TCP-Clear,
> Login-Port = 540
>
> - seemed to work for me with a quick test at least (I'm not too good at
> speaking UUCP protocol:-).
>
> --Per Hedeland
> per@erix.ericsson.se
>

Thanks, this works fine. Now I have to figure out a way to benchmard this
:-)

BTW where is the TCP-Clear documented?

Krzysztof