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From: rosalia@mozart.UUCP (Mark Galassi)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Multiple ph# for uucp
Message-ID: <36@mozart.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 88 21:53:57 GMT
References: <304@csed-37.csed-1.UUCP>
Reply-To: rosalia@mozart.UUCP (Mark Galassi)
Organization: Mark Galassi Research, Stony Brook, New York.
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In article <304@csed-37.csed-1.UUCP> mohar@csed-1.UUCP (Mike Mohar) writes:
>
>Does anybody know how to tell UUCP that there are multiple phone
>numbers for a site it's trying to call.  The site I poll has 3 numbers
>and quite often they're busy and uucp quits when I'd like it to try
>the other phone numbers.

I think that any uucp supports this:  just have two *almost* identical
entries in "L.sys" (or "Systems"), with the same machine name, and
then a different phone number, and uucico will try the next if the
first fails.  In you case, you can have three entries, that differ
only in phone number.
-- 
						Mark Galassi
					...!icus!mozart!rosalia
{ these opinions are mine, and should be everybody else's :-) }