Xref: utzoo comp.sources.wanted:7651 comp.sources.d:3718 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Need dial(3C) compatible with HDB UUCP Message-ID: <13695@ncoast.ORG> Date: 3 Jun 89 18:45:03 GMT References: <4522@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> <8244@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sources.wanted Distribution: na Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 34 As quoted from <8244@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> by wnp@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Wolf Paul): +--------------- | 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 ? | | 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). +--------------- "Curiouser and curiouser." The system I use supports an HDB dial(3) -- but a few versions behind the rest of the system. For example, it doesn't know about the ",M" subfield in Devices, although it knows about Dialers et al. +--------------- | 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. +--------------- Yes, but what of us who want to be able to use dial(3) to access HDB services and don't have HDB source? (I've written a terminal program which keeps its noise in the status line, rather than scribbling on the screen the way cu does, and invokes rz/sz to do file transfers. Unfortunately, not having dial(3) use HDB facilities means that I'm going to have to do a lot of extra work to make it a reasonable replacement for "cu" -- boo, hiss, AT&T has a lot of gall to make it etremely difficult to improve on that ugly beast cu!) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser