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

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).