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Configuring Taylor UUCP
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You will have to decide what types of configuration files you want to
use. This package supports a new sort of configuration file; see
See Configuration Files. It also supports V2 configuration files
(`L.sys', `L-devices', etc.) and HDB configuration files (`Systems',
`Devices', etc.). No documentation is provided for V2 or HDB
configuration files. All types of configuration files can be used at
once, if you are so inclined. Currently using just V2 configuration
files is not really possible, because there is no way to specify a
dialer (there are no built in dialers, and the program does not know
how to read `acucap' or `modemcap'); however, V2 configuration files
can be used with a new style dial file (see dial File.), or with a
HDB `Dialers' file.
Use of HDB configuration files has two known bugs. A blank line in
the middle of an entry in the `Permissions' file will not be ignored as
it should be. Dialer programs, as found in some versions of HDB, are
not recognized directly. If you must use a dialer program, rather than
an entry in `Devices', you must use the `chat-program' command in a new
style dial file; see See dial File. You will have to invoke the
dialer program via a shell script or another program, since an exit
code of 0 is required to recognize success; the `dialHDB' program in
the `contrib' directory may be used for this purpose.
The `uuconv' (see Invoking uuconv.) program can be used to
convert from V2 or HDB configuration files to the new style (it can also
do the reverse translation, if you are so inclined). It will not do all
of the work, and the results should be carefully checked, but it can be
quite useful.
If you are installing a new system, you will, of course, have to
write the configuration files; see See Configuration Files for
details on how to do this.
After writing the configuration files, use the `uuchk' program to
verify that they are what you expect; see See Invoking uuchk.