1*70f47ae5SbosticWe started to use uucp after the dialin lines had been in place for a while. 2*70f47ae5SbosticIt would have been very unpopular here to remove one of lines from public use 3*70f47ae5Sbosticto let uucp dial out. The first version of these changes ran here early in 4*70f47ae5Sbostic1983. 5*70f47ae5Sbostic 6*70f47ae5SbosticHaving this ability is very useful way to make full use of your modems. For 7*70f47ae5Sbosticone thing, I can smile when a neighoring site complains that their one dialer 8*70f47ae5Sbosticis tied up from news backed up to one of their neighbors which has been down 9*70f47ae5Sbosticfor a while and has just come back up. For another thing some of our neighbors 10*70f47ae5Sbosticseem to be reachable better by some modems than by others. For example, I can 11*70f47ae5Sbosticonly reach rocky2 with a Racal Vadic. I can only reach akgua, burl, and 12*70f47ae5Sbosticsjuvax with a Hayes. When our 2400 baud modem arrives so I can make special 13*70f47ae5Sbosticnote of that --- and I don't have to buy two 2400 baud modems to have two-way 14*70f47ae5Sbostic2400 baud capability. 15*70f47ae5Sbostic 16*70f47ae5SbosticThe key to this is a program is provided in the file acucntrl.c . This should 17*70f47ae5Sbosticbe installed suid to root in the file /usr/lib/uucp/acucntrl . 18*70f47ae5Sbostic 19*70f47ae5Sbostic 20*70f47ae5Sbosticuucp notes: 21*70f47ae5SbosticThe 3rd field of the L-devices file should contain "inout" for all devices 22*70f47ae5Sbosticintended for dialin/out use. Devices without the "inout" specification will 23*70f47ae5Sbosticbe used like before: for dialout only. 24*70f47ae5Sbostic 25*70f47ae5SbosticGood luck. I want to never go back to reserving modems for dialout. 26*70f47ae5Sbostic 27*70f47ae5SbosticBill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics 28*70f47ae5Sbostic{allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls 29