PHONES(5) Standards, Environments, and Macros PHONES(5)

NAME

phones - remote host phone number database

SYNOPSIS

/etc/phones

DESCRIPTION

The file /etc/phones contains the system-wide private phone numbers for
the tip(1) program. /etc/phones is normally unreadable, and so may
contain privileged information. The format of /etc/phones is a series of
lines of the form:

<system-name>[ \t]*<phone-number>.


The system name is one of those defined in the remote(5) file and the
phone number is constructed from [0123456789-=*%]. The `=' and `*'
characters are indicators to the auto call units to pause and wait for a
second dial tone (when going through an exchange). The `=' is required
by the DF02-AC and the `*' is required by the BIZCOMP 1030.


Comment lines are lines containing a `#' sign in the first column of the
line.


Only one phone number per line is permitted. However, if more than one
line in the file contains the same system name tip(1) will attempt to
dial each one in turn, until it establishes a connection.

FILES

/etc/phones

SEE ALSO

tip(1), remote(5)


January 14, 1992 PHONES(5)