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In article <BuDsA5.F71@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> Chad Childers <chad@quality.ta.ford.com> writes:
>>at which one is most likely true), I'm wondering what the difference is in
>>the listings in the UUCP maps i.e.
>
>The various words each have a numerical value.  What you try to do with a
>UUCP map is get a numerical value appropriate to your site... to that
>purpose, you can also combine them, do get things like DAILY+LOW.  I am
>doing this from memory, believe I read it in the news.announce hierarchy
>someplace... but DAILY and POLLED have the same value, around 3000 I think,
>and DAILY is supposed to mean you call them, POLLED means they call you.
>The lower the number, the better the link, so if you do a DAILY+LOW that
>means it's a low-quality link and should be routed around.  HIGH is
>actually a negative number (HIGH and LOW are +5 and -5 respectively).
>You can multiply or divide, for instance DAILY/2 means twice daily, and
>should give you 1500 if I remember correctly.  It isn't super-important
>that all the words be right, as long as the numbers are roughly appropriate
>to the quality of the link.
>
>If you want more info on this, talk to Bob Leffler or Kevin Darcy, I'm sure
>they know more than I do about it.
>-- 

From pathalias's parse.y file:

	{"DIRECT", 200},
        {"DEMAND", 300},
        {"DAILY", 5000},
        {"HOURLY", 500},
        {"DEDICATED", 100},
        {"EVENING", 2000},
        {"LOCAL", 25},
        {"LOW", 5},     /* baud rate, quality penalty */
        {"DEAD", MILLION},
        {"POLLED", 5000},
        {"WEEKLY", 30000},
        {"HIGH", -5},   /* baud rate, quality bonus */
        {"FAST", -80},  /* high speed (>= 9.6 kbps) modem */
        /* deprecated */
        {"ARPA", 100},
        {"DIALED", 300},

Also, if a cost is omitted, e.g.

foo	bar

then it's assigned a default value. In my pathalias version, this default 
value is 4000, putting it somewhere between EVENING and DAILY. I'm sure this
comes as a shock to the many folks who apparently think the above syntax is 
equivalent to declaring an alias, which has an effective cost of 0, i.e.

foo = 	bar

There are some fairly good README files and man pages on this stuff, if I 
recall, but if those prove insufficient, talk to Peter Honeyman. I'm sure he 
knows more than I do about it. :-)

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