NRPORTS(5)

NAME
nrports - NET/ROM port configuration file.

DESCRIPTION

Nrports is an ASCII file that contains information about each of the NET/ROM ports that are to be used. When dealing with an NET/ROM utility such as call, it takes an optional argument that is the port number. The number is a reference to a line number within nrports, port one being the first line etc. The information on each line contains enough information to bind the command to a particular NET/ROM interface, this binding is done by matching the callsign on the line in nrports with the callsign of the port set by ifconfig.

Each line has the following format, each field being delimited by white space:

    callsign alias description

The field descriptions are:

    callsign
        the callsign of the NET/ROM interface to bind to.

    alias
        this is the alias of the NET/ROM port.

    description
        a free format description of this interface, this field is currently unused.

FILES

/usr/local/etc/nrports

SEE ALSO
call(1), netrom(4), ifconfig(8), nrparms(8).

BUGS

The file format of nrports is likely to change in the future to hold more information in an extensible manner.