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- From: lnsg1.miberl01@eds.com (Michael S. Berlant)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Which modems support "call waiting"
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 11:11:00 GMT
- Organization: EDS Singapore
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- In article <4eh69e$3ai@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, qualitec@aol.com says...
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- >Regarding WANTING 'CALL WAITING' to work.
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- >Some people hav Emailed me wanting Call Waiting to work while they're
- >online and to be able to pick up the waiting call. The current modems do
- >not have this designed in, and if you hack a way for it to work you'll get
- >'hit and miss' succes and/or slow/error prone throughtput while allowing
- >the modem to drop off when a 'foreign' sound interupts the carrier.
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- >Rog.
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- Worse than that, even _if_ you could do this, the modem at the other end will
- drop off when you pause to answer the interrupting call.
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- I don't think you can climb over that obstacle.
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- Good luck.
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-