dan@digi-g.UUCP (Dan Messinger) (10/25/84)
I have two questions about uucico.
1) I was running strings on uucico and noticed that it had a reference to
a file called "/usr/lib/uucp/L.sys.cr". What, if any, is the difference
between this file and L.sys? I tried renaming my L.sys to L.sys.cr and
everything seemed to work the same.
2) As far as I know, uucico only knows how to dial Bell 801 type dialers.
I have been putting my modem's dialing sequence into the L.sys login
string. The only disadvantage to this is that I can't have uucico
pick an available line to use -- the L.sys entry looks like a hardwire
line. Question: Is there a way to train uucico how to use my modem's
dialer so I can use ACU type entries in my L.sys and have uucico find
an available line, or is there a way to not use ACU but still have
uucico search for an available line. (We don't have source, or I would
have found the means or patched this in myself already)
Dan Messinger
ihnp4!umn-cs!digi-g!danmarcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand) (10/30/84)
Thou needst honey-danber uucp as I'm sure peter will tell us shortly...
honey@down.FUN (10/30/84)
um, i hadn't really planned this response, but it's being dragged out
of me ... umph!
what dan needs is source code, then he can hack it up himself.
hacking uucp is a time-honored rite of passage in unix.
if that source code happens to be 4.2bsd, it's pretty easy to add code
for new and wonderful dialers. if it's honey danber, you simply add an
incantation to the Dialers file*.
peter
* due to dale dejager.
ps: L.sys.cr may or may not have been an encrypted L.sys -- modern
versions of uucp neither use it nor define it. in the versions of
uucp i have seen (of which most are neatly tucked away in my home
directory), i have seen L.sys.cr used only once, in (what was
informally known as) the official usenet version of uucp. there,
the intent was to alow L.sys to be readable, while L.sys.cr was
private. (i'm guessing here, but the code does not call crypt().)piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) (11/06/84)
<...> >if it's honey danber, you simply add an incantation to the >Dialers file*. Seems like lot of people will have to do with just the incantation.... lacking honey danber. Or is it really distributed now? -- Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet