From: wusel@hactar.hanse.de (Kai 'wusel' Siering)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: Request for UUCICO enhancement
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 08:21:49 +0100
Organization: Villa Straylight, Hamburg, FRG
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In article <1993Jan6.194459.1070@combdyn.com>, Lawrence Chen writes:

% In article <060193f0736@hamburg.uucp> wusel@hactar.hanse.de (Kai 'wusel' Siering) writes:
% >     there is another thing I would like to see in the next version of
% >uucico ...
% >
% >     You probably have noticed the third entry in every L.sys-line,
% >usually `SER:'.  As to my knowledge, this is not used by uucico yet; but,
% >as multi i/o cards are getting more popular and the first ISDN-card is
% >available (at least here in Germany), it would make sense to give this
% >entry functionallity ...
[...]

% This sounds like a good start....next is to add dialer information to this
% 'uulib:ports' file (uulib:Devices?)  Because not every device uses the same

     Oops, sorry, this can't work. The `ports' file (I would prefer
`ports' to `devices', one device may have more ports =:->) is global for
all entries in L.sys.

% dial string.  I have a big long one for my Worldblazer, to get UUCP spoofing
% under v.32bis.....which doesn't apply if I call out on my T2500, and if I
% call out of the Dual Standard, I want to make sure that it does v.32bis and
% not HST.

     Oops? Err, where's the problem, the dialer information just stays
there where it belongs and already exists: in L.sys. Example:

uulib:L.sys
---------------------------------------8<---------------------------------------
abqhh Any DHST 38400 ATS13.0=1D555-517 ogin: a word: b
abqhh Any T2k5 38400 ATS12=42S13.0=1S255=1D555-2171 ogin: a word: b
abqhh Any DHST 38400 ATS13.5=0S13.0=1D555-2171 ogin: a word: b
--------------------------------------->8---------------------------------------

     Your `DHST' line in `uulib:ports' specifies on which port your DHST
is connected, and the `T2k5' line the one with your Traily. In the example
above, you have different settings for `abqhh's second line, one for each
of your modems -- a new switch for uucico to use only a specified port is
needed though (`-port name'?).

     For getty, I suggest to set a bunch of variables in local environment,
e. g. `_PORT DHST', `_DEVICE duart.device', `_UNIT 1', etc. and start the
command in question with `-GETTY' as last argument (easy to comment out by
putting a ';' at the end of the passwd-entry for programs that didn't like
this). Furthermore, I would like to have the program per default started
with NP_INPUT and NP_OUTPUT redirected to the FIFOs, allowing almost any
filter-type program to be run from getty. Programms like uucico which want
to talk directly to the device should be marked as such (e. g.  with the
well-known `*' as first character).
Note that this is contrary to what is used today -- but with AS225 in mind
(and hopefully a common passwd-format -- it's simply stupid that every
package today has it's own file for storing passwords, system names, etc.;
these are system global, not application local!), one imho needs a more
general format for pw_shell ...
			kai

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