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PHONES(5)		    BSD File Formats Manual		     PHONES(5)

NAME
     phones — remote host phone number data base

DESCRIPTION
     The file /etc/phones contains the system-wide private phone numbers for
     the tip(1) program.  This file is normally unreadable, and so may contain
     privileged information.

     The format of the file is a series of lines containing whitespace sepa‐
     rate fields, of the form:
	   system-name phone-number

     The system-name is one of those defined in the remote(5) file.

     The phone-number is constructed from any sequence of characters termi‐
     nated only by a comma (“,”) or the end of the line.  The equals (“=”) and
     asterisk (“*”) 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.

     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)

HISTORY
     The phones file appeared in 4.2BSD.

BSD				January 3, 2001				   BSD

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