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From: wehr@fmeed1.UUCP (Bruce Wehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Help with ct(1)
Summary: *BINGO* Thanks!
Message-ID: <4279@fmeed1.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 89 21:10:49 GMT
References: <4210@fmeed1.UUCP> <2015@network.ucsd.edu>
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Organization: Ford Electronics Division, Dearborn MI
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In article <2015@network.ucsd.edu>, corrigan@HP-UX.ucsd.edu (Michael J. Corrigan) writes:
> Perusing the "UUCP, HP-UX Concepts and Tutorials" manual,
> I find no reference to an entry in Devices called ACUBLAZER. 
> [...] I also find that setting up an ACU line
> and saying 'ct 5551212' the program acts reasonably on 6.5 and 3.1

That's it!  Thanks!  It was a left over from Old-Style UUCP.  We have 2
different types of ACU's here:  Sytek boxes (to access machines on our
building LAN), and a Trailblazer (to access machines over phone lines).
For a few machines, I can use either method to access them, but for
most, I must use either the LAN *or* the phones.

I had to distinguish between the 2 ACU types in my Systems file (use
ACUSYTEK for machine A, use ACUBLAZER for machine B).  The generic type
ACU wasn't sufficient.  So, I also had to make the distinction in my
Devices file.  uucico used this info to choose an appropriate device,
and would pass the name to /usr/lib/dialit to chose the correct dialer
routine.  Everything was fine.

I guess HDB UUCP looks at things a little differently.  But if you look
in the Tutorials manual, you will still find the reference ACUHAYESSMART
in an example Systems entry (p 2-15, if we have the same book).  How
does HDB map that to a device if there's no ACUHAYESSMART in the Devices
file?  The book also leads me to believe that Sytek is now a built-in
dialer, but it isn't clear on how to configure the system to use it.
Nor does it have any reference to ct(1) command.

Anyway, thanks again for getting me off the ground!

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