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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UUCP/UseNet & Berks Amiga BBS
Message-ID: <10781@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 31 Dec 88 03:46:23 GMT
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Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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In Message <8812281419.AA08795@decwrl.dec.com>, plouff@levers.dec.com (Wes Plouff) writes:

>I have the current release, a friendly site to connect to, a
>non-Hayes-compatible modem and a non-Lattice C compiler.  Great
>frustration has ensued.  One hopes that the next release would either
>include a way to patch in modem command syntax without recompiling, or
>else exclude a half dozen or so Lattice-isms from 'uucico.' 

If the "Sneakers Computing" has a uucico that is *anything* like other
uucicos, then you should be able to make a "Systems" (or L.sys) file
entry that manually dials the modem.

For example, here's the uupc entry I use with the proprietary stuff changed
and newlines inserted so it will make it thru mail.

sitename Any a DIR 1200 g "" ATZ OK-\d+++\dATZ-OK ATM0S0=0\d\d OK
ATDT5555555 CONNECT DELAY3\d\d ogin:-BREAK\c-ogin:--ogin uucp sword: foobar

The DIR part essentially says we have a direct line instead of an ACU.
Therefore, no dialing software gets called. We then do all the AT modem
commands ourself. This could be adapted for any modem using any command
set. It could also be used to repeat dial or cycle through different
phone numbers.

The DELAY3 stuff is a feature of "uupc", but the rest (I believe) is
pretty standard.

So there ya go. I've been using this technique for a long time on Unix
systems ever since David Herron showed me how.

Sean
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