<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 96.1-c (Feb 29, 1996) by Nikos Drakos (nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk), CBLU, University of Leeds --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Telephone Number</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY LANG="EN"> <A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node162.html">Port and Speed</A> <B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node159.html">How to Tell UUCP </A> <B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node160.html">System Name</A> <BR> <P> <H3><A NAME="SECTION0014362000">Telephone Number</A></H3> If the remote system is to be reached over a telephone line, the phone field specifies the number the modem should dial. It may contain several tokens interpreted by uucico's dialing procedure. An equal sign means to wait for a secondary dial tone, and a dash generates a one-second pause. For instance, some telephone installations will choke when you don't pause between dialing the prefix code and telephone number. <P> <B>[Don't know the proper English term for this-- you know, something like a company's private internal installation where you have to dial a 0 or 9 to get a line to the outside.]</B> <P> <A NAME="6609"></A> Any embedded alphabetic string may be used to hide site-dependent information like area codes. Any such string is translated to a dialcode using the dialcode file. Suppose you have the following dialcode file: <P> <P><P> <P> With these translations, you can use a phone number such as Bogoham7732 in the sys file, which makes things probably a little more legible. <P> <BR> <HR> <P><ADDRESS> <I>Andrew Anderson <BR> Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I> </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>