Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!octopus!vsi1!lmb
From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Dialer support for Telebit
Message-ID: <399@vsi1.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 02:17:27 GMT
Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
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Richard Siegal from Telebit recently posted a description of how to properly
connect a Trailblazer to a Sun.  The problem that I have with the dialing
method in the L.sys file is that ANY failure shows as FAILED(LOGIN) in the
log file.  I have uncovered an undocumented feature in SunOS3.x uucp (and
possibly BSD 4.x) that allows you to use the built-in dialers.  The following
is a sample line from my L.sys:

octopus Any ACUHAYES 19200 fast99731831 ogin:--ogin: uuvsi1 assword: xyzzy

The line indicates that uucico should use the Hayes dialer to dial
"fast99731831".  Since octopus has S92=1, I need to set S50=255.  In the
L-dialcodes file I have:
 
fast S50=255DT

This works because the Hayes dialer only prepends an "AT" when the first
character in the number is a "S".  The reason that you can't just put
"S50=255DT99731831" in the L.sys is because if uucico sees a letter as
the first character in the number, it tries to apply a dialcode by that
name.
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