SysIII/usr/src/man/man1/ct.1c

.TH CT 1C
.SH NAME
ct \- call terminal
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ct
[
.B \-h
] [
.B \-v
] [
.BR \-w n
] [
.BR \-s speed
] telno
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Ct\^
dials the phone number of a modem that is attached
to a terminal, and spawns a
.I login\^
process to that terminal.
.I Telno\^
is the telephone number,
with minus signs at appropriate places for delays.
.PP
.I Ct\^
determines which dialers are associated with
lines that are set to the appropriate speed by
examining the file
.BR /usr/lib/uucp/L-devices .
If all such available dialers are busy,
.I ct\^
will ask if it should wait for
a line, and if so, for how many minutes
it should wait
before it gives up.
.I Ct\^
will continue to try to open
the dialers
at one-minute intervals until
the specified limit is exceeded.
The dialogue may be overridden by
specifying the
.BI \-w n\^
option, where
.I n\^
is the maximum number of minutes
that
.I ct\^
is
to wait for a line.
.PP
Normally,
.I ct\^
will hang up the current line, so that
that line can answer the incoming call.
The
.B \-h
option will prevent this action.
If the
.B \-v
option is used,
.I ct\^
will send a running narrative
to standard error.
.PP
The data rate may be set with the
.B \-s
option, where
.I speed\^
is expressed in baud.
The default rate is 300.
.PP
The destination terminal must be attached
to a modem that can answer the telephone.
.SH FILES
/usr/lib/uucp/L-devices
.SH "SEE ALSO"
cu(1C),
login(1),
uucp(1C),
dn(4),
getty(8).