A proposed uucico enhancement
Tim Smith
tim at callan.UUCP
Sat Nov 3 11:20:45 AEST 1984
Does this sound reasonable as an enhancement to uucico?
In L-devices, add a new type of connection: PROG. This means
that this entry represents a line that must be accessed through
a program. The format would be
PROG label name arg [prot]
'label' is what L.sys would refer to this entry with. 'name'
is the name of the program. 'arg' is an arg to pass the program,
and 'prot' is the protocol to use.
When uucico finds a PROG entry, it would fork off the specified prog
with the specified argument. It is to assume that this will connect
to something running uucico, and that it may communicate over standard
input and output.
I recently needed something like this for use over Ethernet. Without
this I needed some horrible kludge involving ptys' and rlogin....ugh!
Well, is this reasonable?
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Tim Smith
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