dialcodes(F)                  06 January 1993                   dialcodes(F)


 Name

    dialcodes - format of UUCP Dialcode abbreviations file

 Description

    The Dialcodes file (/usr/lib/uucp/Dialcodes) contains the Dialcode abbre-
    viations that can be used in the ``Phone'' field of the Systems file.
    This feature allows you to create a standard Systems file for distribu-
    tion 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 Sys-
    tems file, but have different entries in a Dialcodes file.  Each entry
    has the following format:

       abb dial-seq

    where:

    abb     is the abbreviation used in the Systems file ``phone'' field

    dial-seq
            is the dial sequence that is passed to the dialer when that par-
            ticular 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

 See also

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