cu: ACU?

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Wayne Sierke wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 14:26 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
>> What is an ACU?  The man pages for cu and tip use "acu" don't define the
>> term.  Neither does the source, that I can find.  /etc/remote has an
>> entry for "Auto call unit type"; is that it?
>
> Something that has often piqued my interest when I've used cu.
>
> Automatic Call Unit (probably a pstn/dialup modem these days)
>
> See:
> 4.6.1.  Setting up a UUCP connection
> http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/smm/01.setup/paper-4.html

Here are a couple of tiny patches to make this more explicit in the the 
cu(1) and remote(5) man pages.  There really should be an example of 
using cu with the acu setting to dial a Hayes-compatible modem in the cu 
man page, but so far I haven't managed to make that work.

Feedback and examples welcome.  Once this is more complete, I'll submit 
a PR.  Thanks!

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 The options are as follows:
 .Bl -tag -width indent
 .It Fl a Ar acu
-Set the acu.
+Set the auto call unit (autodialer).
 .It Fl e
 Use even parity.
 If both
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--- share/man/man5/remote.5.orig	2010-03-05 17:48:25.000000000 -0700
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@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 .Bl -tag -width indent
 .It Cm \&at
 (str)
-Auto call unit type.
+Auto call unit (autodialer) type.
 .It Cm \&br
 (num)
 The data rate (bits per second) used for communications on the