L-DIALCODES(5)                                                  L-DIALCODES(5)



NAME
       L-dialcodes - UUCP phone number index file

DESCRIPTION
       The _L_-_d_i_a_l_c_o_d_e_s file defines the mapping of strings from the phone num‐
       ber field of _L_._s_y_s(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_._s_y_s  can be preceded by an arbitrary alphabetic
       character  string;  the  string  is  matched  against   the   list   of
       _a_l_p_h_a__s_t_r_i_n_gs  in  _L_-_d_i_a_l_c_o_d_e_s.   If  a match is found, _p_h_o_n_e__n_u_m_b_e_r is
       substituted for it. If no match is found, the string is discarded.

       _L_-_d_i_a_l_c_o_d_e_s is commonly used either of two ways:

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

            chi  1312
            mv   1415

       In _L_._s_y_s 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

       (2) All phone numbers are placed in _L_-_d_i_a_l_c_o_d_e_s, one  for  each  remote
           site.   _L_._s_y_s then refers to these by name. For example, if _L_-_d_i_a_l_‐
           _c_o_d_e_s contains the following lines:

            chivax    13125551234
            mvpyr     14155556601

       then _L_._s_y_s 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_._s_y_s.

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).



4.3 Berkeley Distribution       April 24, 1986                  L-DIALCODES(5)