dial() function call

[Wolf N. Paul]

In article <6213 at chinet.chi.il.us> les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
 >In article <28 at attibr.UUCP> vch at attibr.UUCP (Vincent C. Hatem) writes:
 >>Has anyone out there ever got the dial(3C) function call to work???
 >>
 >>I've got a 3B2/600 running SysVr3.1.1 here, which comes with HDB uucp.
 >>
 >>This crazy dial() call uses the old style uucp files, which I've re-created.
 >>(Why be consistant???)
 >>
 >
 >Even if it did work it would also use the old-style uucp lock files
 >which would not be consistant with uucp and cu.  ...


There is a p.d. re-implementation of dial(3) in the comp.sources.unix
archives, which presumably could be hacked to support HDB-style support
and lock files (or has somebody already done this? Please speak up!). It
also provides more modem flexibility thru a "dialinfo" database.
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