Dialcodes(F)

Dialcodes -- format of UUCP Dialcode abbreviations file

Format

abb dial_seq

Description

The Dialcodes file (/usr/lib/uucp/Dialcodes) contains the Dialcode abbreviations that can be used in the Phone field of the Systems file. This feature allows you to create a standard Systems file for distribution among several sites that have different phone systems and area codes.

If two remote sites in a network need to link with the same sites, but have different internal phone systems, each site can share the same Systems file, but have different entries in a Dialcodes file.

Each line in Dialcodes contains the following two whitespace-separated fields:


abb
the abbreviation used in the Systems file phone field

dial_seq
the dial sequence that is passed to the dialer when that particular Systems file entry is accessed

The following entry would be set up to work with a ``phone'' field in the Systems file such as jt7867: 

   jt 9=847-
When the entry containing jt7867 is encountered, the following sequence is sent to the dialer if the token in the dialer-token pair is \T: 
   9=847-7867
The phone number is made up of an optional alphabetic abbreviation and a numeric part. If an abbreviation is used, it must be one that is listed in the Dialcodes file. 
   NY 9=1212555

Files


/usr/lib/uucp/Dialcodes
full pathname of Dialcodes

See also

Systems(F), uucico(ADM), uucp(C), uux(C), uuxqt(ADM)
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