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L-DIALCODES(5)      UNIX Programmer's Manual       L-DIALCODES(5)



NAME
     L-dialcodes - UUCP phone number index file

DESCRIPTION
     The _L-_d_i_a_l_c_o_d_e_s file defines the mapping of strings from the
     phone number field of _L._s_y_s(5) to actual phone numbers.

     Each line in L-dialcodes has the form:

          alpha_string  phone_number

     The two items can be separated by any number of blanks or
     tabs. Lines beginning with a `#' character are comments.

     A phone number in _L._s_y_s can be preceded by an arbitrary
     alphabetic character string; the string is matched against
     the list of _a_l_p_h_a__s_t_r_i_n_gs in _L-_d_i_a_l_c_o_d_e_s.  If a match is
     found, _p_h_o_n_e__n_u_m_b_e_r is substituted for it. If no match is
     found, the string is discarded.

     _L-_d_i_a_l_c_o_d_e_s is commonly used either of two ways:

     (1) The alphabetic strings are used as prefixes to denote
         area codes, zones, and other commonly used sequences.
         For example, if _L-_d_i_a_l_c_o_d_e_s included the following
         lines:

          chi  1312
          mv   1415

     In _L._s_y_s you could enter:

          chivax Any ACU 1200 chi5551234  ogin:--ogin: nuucp
          mvpyr  Any ACU 1200 mv5556001   ogin:--ogin: Uuucp

     instead of

          chivax Any ACU 1200 13125551234  ogin:--ogin: nuucp
          mvpyr  Any ACU 1200 14155556001  ogin:--ogin: Uuucp

     (2) All phone numbers are placed in _L-_d_i_a_l_c_o_d_e_s, one for
         each remote site.  _L._s_y_s then refers to these by name.
         For example, if _L-_d_i_a_l_c_o_d_e_s contains the following
         lines:

          chivax    13125551234
          mvpyr     14155556601

     then _L._s_y_s could have:

          chivax Any ACU 1200 chivax  ogin:--ogin: nuucp
          mvpyr  Any ACU 1200 mvpyr   ogin:--ogin: Uuucp



Printed 12/27/86         April 24, 1986                         1






L-DIALCODES(5)      UNIX Programmer's Manual       L-DIALCODES(5)



     This scheme allows a site administrator to give users read
     access to the table of phone numbers, while still protecting
     the login/password sequences in _L._s_y_s.

FILES
     /usr/lib/uucp/L-dialcodes
     /usr/lib/uucp/UUAIDS/L-dialcodes   L-dialcodes example

SEE ALSO
     uucp(1C), uux(1C), L.sys(5), uucico(8C).













































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