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From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [TUHS] uucp protocol nits
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:42:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f7848d6-7c35-99b4-b393-9ccc3cbbd37c@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003e01d299dd$b5346e20$1f9d4a60$@ronnatalie.com>

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?
>
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-10 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-07 17:17 [TUHS] Help request: uucp, mail on 4.2BSD Clem Cole
2017-03-07 17:43 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2017-03-07 21:14   ` SPC
2017-03-08  1:51     ` John Labovitz
2017-03-10  0:31   ` Steve Simon
2017-03-10  2:04     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10  2:09       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10  2:23         ` [TUHS] uucp protocol nits Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10  2:57           ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-10  3:08             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10  3:28               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10  3:28                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10 14:28           ` Brad Spencer
2017-03-10 20:34           ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-10 21:42             ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2017-03-10 22:10             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10 22:26               ` Corey Lindsly
2017-03-12 19:38             ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-10  2:51     ` [TUHS] Help request: uucp, mail on 4.2BSD Dave Horsfall
2017-03-10  3:45       ` Dan Cross
2017-03-10  4:40         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-03-10  9:57           ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-10  6:34     ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2017-03-10  7:22       ` Erik E. Fair
2017-03-10  7:27         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-03-10 15:00         ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-07 17:45 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-07 18:30 ` Jacob Goense
2017-03-07 18:30 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-07 19:00   ` Erik E. Fair
2017-03-07 22:04   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-10  6:10   ` Jim Carpenter

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