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1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1986 Regents of the University of California.
                      2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
                      3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
                      4: .\"
                      5: .\"    @(#)L-dialcodes.5       6.1 (Berkeley) 4/24/86
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH L-DIALCODES 5 "April 24, 1986"
                      8: .UC 6
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: L-dialcodes \- UUCP phone number index file 
                     11: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     12: The
                     13: .I L-dialcodes
                     14: file defines the mapping of strings from the phone number field of
                     15: .IR L.sys (5)
                     16: to actual phone numbers.
                     17: .PP
                     18: Each line in L-dialcodes has the form:
                     19: .PP
                     20: .nf
                     21:        alpha_string  phone_number
                     22: .fi
                     23: .PP
                     24: The two items can be separated by any number of blanks or tabs. Lines beginning
                     25: with a `#' character are comments.
                     26: .PP
                     27: A phone number in
                     28: .I L.sys
                     29: can be preceded by an arbitrary alphabetic character string; the string
                     30: is matched against the list of
                     31: .IR alpha_string s
                     32: in
                     33: .IR L-dialcodes .
                     34: If a match is found,
                     35: .I phone_number
                     36: is substituted for it. If no match is found, the string is discarded.
                     37: .PP
                     38: .I L-dialcodes
                     39: is commonly used either of two ways:
                     40: .TP 4
                     41: (1)
                     42: The alphabetic strings are used as prefixes to denote area codes, zones,
                     43: and other commonly used sequences. For example, if
                     44: .I L-dialcodes
                     45: included the following lines:
                     46: .PP
                     47: .nf
                     48:        chi     1312
                     49: .br
                     50:        mv      1415
                     51: .fi
                     52: .PP
                     53: In
                     54: .I L.sys
                     55: you could enter:
                     56: .PP
                     57: .nf
                     58:        chivax Any ACU 1200 chi5551234  ogin:--ogin: nuucp
                     59: .br
                     60:        mvpyr  Any ACU 1200 mv5556001   ogin:--ogin: Uuucp
                     61: 
                     62: instead of
                     63: 
                     64:        chivax Any ACU 1200 13125551234  ogin:--ogin: nuucp
                     65: .br
                     66:        mvpyr  Any ACU 1200 14155556001  ogin:--ogin: Uuucp
                     67: .fi
                     68: .TP 4
                     69: (2)
                     70: All phone numbers are placed in
                     71: .IR L-dialcodes ,
                     72: one for each remote site.
                     73: .I L.sys
                     74: then refers to these by name. For example, if
                     75: .I L-dialcodes
                     76: contains the following lines:
                     77: .PP
                     78: .nf
                     79:        chivax  13125551234
                     80: .br
                     81:        mvpyr   14155556601
                     82: .fi
                     83: .PP
                     84: then
                     85: .I L.sys
                     86: could have:
                     87: .PP
                     88: .nf
                     89:        chivax Any ACU 1200 chivax  ogin:--ogin: nuucp
                     90: .br
                     91:        mvpyr  Any ACU 1200 mvpyr   ogin:--ogin: Uuucp
                     92: .fi
                     93: .PP
                     94: This scheme allows a site administrator to give users read access to the
                     95: table of phone numbers, while still protecting the login/password sequences
                     96: in
                     97: .IR L.sys .
                     98: .SH FILES
                     99: .nf
                    100: .ta \w'/usr/lib/uucp/UUAIDS/L-dialcodes   'u
                    101: /usr/lib/uucp/L-dialcodes
                    102: /usr/lib/uucp/UUAIDS/L-dialcodes       L-dialcodes example
                    103: .fi
                    104: .SH SEE ALSO
                    105: uucp(1C), uux(1C), L.sys(5), uucico(8C).

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