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From: dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: PC 7300: Phone Manager vs. uucp
Message-ID: <137@kesmai.COM>
Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 15:53:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: kesmai.137
Posted: Mon Aug 17 15:53:22 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Aug-87 03:46:18 EDT
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Organization: Kesmai Corporation, Charlottesville, VA
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Summary: phconfig


I posted this earlier but I think it fell dead at my doorstep.
I hacked something together which provides some of the functionality
required to let uucp dial out when required.  It does it, however,
by leaving the phone line in the switched to data state in the
phone manager and then controlling the dial in/out status line
from the shell.  More specifically it is a routine which wraps
around uucico and a set of script files which use phset and
a file in /usr/spool/uucp to control the phone line.  It is
mainly meant for one line systems.  Unfortunately, you must reset
the line state any time after switching the line around in the
phone manager as I never was able to figure out how to trap the
exit from the phone manager since it is a global task that just
grabs your screen. phconfig basically takes the following options:

phconfig -s       switch line to outgoing
phconfig -r       switch line to incoming
phconfig -b       switch line to bidirectional
phconfig -d       shut line down
phconfig -o system  outgoing until communication to system is successful
		    then shut down line.

If I ever figure a good place to put it there is a second shell
script (phset) which will reset the line to the state you last
put it in after it gets played with by the phone manager.

If there is any interest I will post the various pieces parts that
make these utilities up.

Dave Albrecht