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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP on my 3b1
Message-ID: <9606@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 18 Sep 89 04:53:11 GMT
References: <337@lock60.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <337@lock60.UUCP> mhw@lock60.UUCP (Mark H. Weber) writes:

>I needed to use the built-in modem for both
>incoming (uucp and remote logins) and outgoing (uucp and cu) applications. 
[...]
>The first thing I did was to replace uucico with a shell script that would
>"reverse" the line befor starting uucico.

Mine works both ways "out-of-the-box", no special programming needed.  You
do need to be sure the inittab entry looks just the way it is set up
by ua because the cu & uucp dialers modify inittab to kill the getty and
they are easily confused.

>After I found out that you can't exec() a shell 
>script in SYS V [..]

execlp() and execvp() will do shell scripts, the other variations don't.

Les Mikesell