4 Jul
2020
4 Jul
'20
12:16 p.m.
Never mind. I see John Cowan has already asked.
I'll crawl back in my hole now
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, 1:10 AM Paul Palmer <paul.allan.palmer(a)gmail.com wrote:
Could someone point me to some information about s
editor?
Googling didn't help
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> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 13:52:42 -0700
> From: Adam Thornton <athornton(a)gmail.com>
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> (if this is better suited for COFF, that'd be fine too)
>
> I've been trying to set up UUCP on my V7 system and its raspberry Pi host.
> This plus the "s" editor (already working) are really all that's
needed to
> make this something pretty close to a daily driver, if all I wanted to do
> was write text files (which in some sense is all my job _is_, but to be
> fair I get a much more immediate feedback loop in my current environment).
>
> I was following
>
>
https://github.com/jwbrase/pdp11-tools/blob/master/howtos/V7%20UUCP%20Insta…
> more or less--I had already rebuilt v7 with the DZ terminal driver and was
> using it for interactive sessions (albeit, before I started trying to get
> UUCP running, with 7-bit line discipline--but I've since changed that).
>
> I have 16 DZ lines, I've set them to 8-bit mode. They're working fine,
> because I can use them for terminal sessions.
>
> I've built UUCP, set a node name, and set it up on the pi.
>
> I can execute uucico to send files, and it, frustratingly, almost works.
>
> >From the Pi side, I see (with uulog):
>
> uucico v7 - (2020-07-03 08:11:34.97 23106) Calling system v7 (port TCP)
> uucico v7 - (2020-07-03 08:11:42.25 23106) Login successful
> uucico v7 - (2020-07-03 08:11:44.44 23106) Handshake successful (protocol
> 'g' sending packet/window 64/3 receiving 64/7)
> uucico v7 adam (2020-07-03 08:11:51.61 23106) Sending
> /home/adam/git/simh/sim_scsi.h (6780 bytes)
> uucico v7 adam (2020-07-03 08:16:21.79 23106) ERROR: Timed out waiting for
> packet
> uucico v7 - (2020-07-03 08:16:21.80 23106) Protocol 'g' packets: sent 86,
> resent 6, received 1
> uucico v7 - (2020-07-03 08:16:21.80 23106) Errors: header 2, checksum 0,
> order 0, remote rejects 0
> uucico v7 - (2020-07-03 08:16:22.51 23106) Call complete (283 seconds 5440
> bytes 19 bps)
>
> So it's clearly logging in, and if I telnet in directly, the v7 end is
> starting uucico as expected:
>
> login: pi-uucp
> Password:
> Shere
>
> uulog -x on the v7 side has no output, and nothing ever appears in the
> spool directory, which I suspect is a direct result of the timeout waiting
> for packet.
>
> So my question is, what else do I do to debug this? Clearly the pi
> (Taylor
> UUCP) side is expecting something else--maybe an acknowledgement?--from
> the
> v7 side to let it know the transmission was successful.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Adam
>