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- Dial is a (4.xBSD-only) communications program for tty lines. It is
- similar to tip(1), though it doesn't support as many options as tip and
- no file transfer. In addition to interactive access to a remote
- computer, dial can operate in a non-interactive way using a
- user-supplied state transition script. This is useful for accessing
- certain `server logins' on remote machines without human interaction
- and in cases where the connect/login procedure for a remote computer is
- complex, e.g. when a remote system is accessed through a PABX, LAN, or
- terminal selector.
-
- Compile dial using the following command:
- cc -o dial dial.c -ltermcap
- (the termcap library is solely used to read entries from /etc/remote).
-
- `dial.1' contains the manual page for dial.
-
- `example' contains a sample state transition script that can be
- interpreted by dial. It is probably of no particular use for you; we
- are using it here to connect to a server login on a remote UNIX machine
- through our local PABX (see the comments in `example'). But you can
- get an idea how a dial script looks like.
-
- Dial makes use of select(2), remote(5), and the Berkeley-UNIX tty
- driver. Thus, it is probably impossible to port it to non-BSD
- systems. I don't know if it will run under 4.3BSD (we haven't
- got 4.3 here, yet).
-
- Please mail bug-reports and useful modifications to:
-
- ...ihnp4!seismo!unido!tub!net or net@DB0TUI6.BITNET
- ...!mcvax!unido!tub!net
-
- Regards,
- Oliver Laumann
- Technical University of Berlin,
- Communications and Operating Systems Research Group.
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