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(5) 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(5) 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(5) then refers to these by name. For
example, if L-dialcodes contains the following lines:

chivax 13125551234
mvpyr 14155556601

then L.sys(5) 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(5).

FILES
/usr/lib/uucp/L-dialcodes

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