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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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