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L-DIALCODES(5)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual	   L-DIALCODES(5)


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_strings 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:

     (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

     (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


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L-DIALCODES(5)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual	   L-DIALCODES(5)


     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
     /etc/uucp/L-dialcodes
     /etc/uucp/UUAIDS/L-dialcodes   L-dialcodes example

SEE ALSO
     uucp(1), uux(1), L.sys(5), uucico(8).


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