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 @(#)L-dialcodes.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/06/93

 L-DIALCODES 5 ""
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 NAME
L-dialcodes - UUCP phone number index file 

 DESCRIPTION
The
 L-dialcodes file defines the mapping of strings from the phone number field of
 L.sys (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.sys can be preceded by an arbitrary alphabetic character string; the string
is matched against the list of
 alpha_string s in
 L-dialcodes . If a match is found,
 phone_number is substituted for it. If no match is found, the string is discarded.


 L-dialcodes is commonly used either of two ways:

 4
(1)
The alphabetic strings are used as prefixes to denote area codes, zones,
and other commonly used sequences. For example, if
 L-dialcodes included the following lines:



 chi 1312


 mv 1415




In
 L.sys 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



 4
(2)
All phone numbers are placed in
 L-dialcodes , one for each remote site.
 L.sys then refers to these by name. For example, if
 L-dialcodes contains the following lines:



 chivax 13125551234


 mvpyr 14155556601




then
 L.sys could have:



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


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




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.sys . 
 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).