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From: wnp@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Need dial(3C) compatible with HDB UUCP
Message-ID: <8244@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 31 May 89 11:38:10 GMT
References: <4522@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: wnp@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
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In article <4522@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> heath@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Robert Heath) writes:
>Does anyone have a dial(3C) library that is compatible with HoneyDanBer UUCP ?
>I've seen quite a few of these on the archive machines, but they
>support  the older System 5.2 UUCP.
>Surprisingly the dial(3C) which came with my UNIX 5.3 supports the older UUCP.
>I'm informed that this is a common situation with UNIX 5.3.

Yes. I recently was looking at HDB source at a client's with a source license,
and there is a comment in there to the effect that HDB does not use dial(3).

Thus, since the authors of HDB chose not to use dial(3), apparently nobody
at AT&T saw a need to update it.

It is not just a matter of changing some file names and the location and
format of the lock files; to do it properly, you have to also include
support of the Dialers file. In order to do that, you really want to have
access to HDB source, to use the routines they use to parse the dialer file,
etc.

However, if all you need is superficial compatibility, primarily with
the HDB lockfile scheme, it would probably be not too difficult to
modify the dialinfo library by Gene Olson, which can be found in Volume 6
of comp.sources.unix, at your nearest friendly archive site.
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