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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Smart Modem Dial Out Database
Message-ID: <2304@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Jul-86 21:08:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  8 21:08:30 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jul-86 04:46:31 EDT
References: <802@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> <2268@cbosgd.UUCP> <987@decuac.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: chris@maryland.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Organization: University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Sci.
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In article <987@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
writes:
>In Ultrix-32, there is /etc/acucap.  A sample entry...
>
>df112|df124|DF112|DF124|DEC df112:\
>	:cr:hu:re:ls:ss=^B:sr=Ready\r\n:sd#250000:di=T:fd#40:\
>	:dt=#:dd#50000:os=\r\nAttached\r\n:rs==:

(followed by a description of the meanings of each entry).

I do not wish to disparage DEC's design decisions, but I do wish
they had made acucap more like terminfo than termcap.  I had hoped
that we were done with cryptic two-character strings.  Cryptic
unlimited strings are so much nicer :-).  Perhaps one of these
days I will write a `capabilities file' reader that works the
`right' way. . . .
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