Annotation of 43BSDTahoe/man/man5/L-dialcodes.5, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1986 Regents of the University of California.
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        !             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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