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1.1       root        1: We started to use uucp after the dialin lines had been in place for a while.
                      2: It would have been very unpopular here to remove one of lines from public use
                      3: to let uucp dial out.  The first version of these changes ran here early in
                      4: 1983.
                      5: 
                      6: Having this ability is very useful way to make full use of your modems. For
                      7: one thing, I can smile when a neighoring site complains that their one dialer
                      8: is tied up from news backed up to one of their neighbors which has been down
                      9: for a while and has just come back up. For another thing some of our neighbors
                     10: seem to be reachable better by some modems than by others.  For example, I can
                     11: only reach rocky2 with a Racal Vadic.  I can only reach akgua, burl, and
                     12: sjuvax with a Hayes.  When our 2400 baud modem arrives so I can make special
                     13: note of that --- and I don't have to buy two 2400 baud modems to have two-way
                     14: 2400 baud capability.
                     15: 
                     16: The key to this is a program is provided in the file acucntrl.c .  This should
                     17: be installed suid to root in the file /usr/lib/uucp/acucntrl .
                     18: 
                     19: 
                     20: uucp notes:
                     21: The 3rd field of the L-devices file should contain "inout"  for all devices
                     22: intended for dialin/out use.  Devices without the "inout" specification will
                     23: be used like before: for dialout only.
                     24: 
                     25: Good luck.  I want to never go back to reserving modems for dialout.
                     26: 
                     27: Bill Sebok                     Princeton University, Astrophysics
                     28: {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls

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