Smart Modem Dial Out Database

[Chris Torek]

In article <987 at decuac.DEC.COM> avolio at decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
writes:
>In Ultrix-32, there is /etc/acucap.  A sample entry...
>
>df112|df124|DF112|DF124|DEC df112:\
>	:cr:hu:re:ls:ss=^B:sr=Ready\r\n:sd#250000:di=T:fd#40:\
>	:dt=#:dd#50000:os=\r\nAttached\r\n:rs==:

(followed by a description of the meanings of each entry).

I do not wish to disparage DEC's design decisions, but I do wish
they had made acucap more like terminfo than termcap.  I had hoped
that we were done with cryptic two-character strings.  Cryptic
unlimited strings are so much nicer :-).  Perhaps one of these
days I will write a `capabilities file' reader that works the
`right' way. . . .
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