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TELECOM Digest     Fri, 28 Jan 94 03:15:00 CST    Volume 14 : Issue 49

Inside This Issue:                          Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Anik E-1 Satellites Offline ([e-mail])
    Public B-ISDN Services in Europe (When?) (Dave Pattison)
    Stereo->Phoneline Connection (J. Grand)
    Need Help With the DUOFONE TAD-345 (Jesse Garon)
    ATM and HighSpeed Networks (Please Help) (Ho Yat-Fan)
    Hello Direct Noise Filter Worth Getting? (Michael Rosen)
    VTech Tropez Address/Phone? (Jim Celoni)
    Vendor Info on RS-422 and RS-366 Modems (Mike Foltz)
    Telephony History (Dahe Chen)
    Request for Info - Cellular Telephone Rate History (L. W. Westermeyer)
    Telecom Texts (Sean Wheeler)
    Cost Effective Communications (Daniel Edward Dindinger)
    GTE and the The CA Earthquake (The Network Group)
    A Highspeed Modem for BB by GI and Intel (Barak Cohen)
    Pager Software Wanted (Sean Slattery)
    Pulse Dialing ([e-mail])
    Establishing a 1-900 Number (Adam C. Gross)
    Programming For Dialogic (Bob Rankin)
    Remapping Phone Buttons (Amer Neely)
    Call Home For .15c/Min via 1-800 Number ([e-mail])
    Anchor 1200baud Modem Manual Wanted (Phillip "Ty" Young)
    ESTELLE Help Wanted (Farhat Anwar)
    Dialing Long Distance From Massachusetts (Carl Moore)

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From: [e-mail]
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 02:52:12 EST
Subject: Anik E-1 Satellites offline.
Organization: Switchboard BBS -  [phone]


Taken from the {Montreal Gazette}, 1/1/94
By Alexander Norris and Aaron Derfel

One of Canada's main telecomunications satellites accidentelly spun
out of control yesterday afternoon, cutting off long distance phone
links to northern Canada and sending newspapers, radio and televisio
stations scrambling to get out the news.

In-house telecommunications services used by large companies -
including stock quotations sent to brokers' offices -- also conked out
when the Anik E-1 satellite tumbled out of it's axis at abot 12:40PM.

And local affiliates of the CTV television network, which rely on the
satellite for national programs, were restricted to local shows until
about 4 PM, said Barry Turner, vice-president for sales and marketing
at Telesat Canada, which owns and operates the satellite.

In all, Turner said, about 3,000 corporate customers were affected.

Service to most customers was restored at about 8 PM.

But one hour later at 9:10PM, Canada's other major communications
satellite Anik E-2, also cartwheeled out of control, knocking CBC
newsworld and other national speciality cable TV channels off the air
and affecting CBC and CTV operations. Partial service, with signals
carried by fiber-optic cable, was being restored in some centres
across Canada.

"We're working on it, but it doesn't look good," Jim Spendlove, a
Telesat official, said early today, suggesting that it might be much
more difficlt to fix it that it was to get Anik E-1 working again.
Chris Frank, Telesat's director of public affairs, conceded the
company might have to issue rebated to the tune of "hundreds of
thousands of dollards" because of the Anik E-1 service disruption.
"We're going to have to rely on our 20-year history of top-line
service to convince our customers to stay with us," Turner saidin an
interview last night."It is a blow to us in terms of our credibility,
but we're working hard to mitigate it".

LAUNCHED IN 1991

Telesat officials said the Anik E-1 problem originated with an
electronic failiure inside the $300-million satellite, which was
launched in 1991 and hovers 36,000 kilometers above the equator. The
malfunction affected a device that keeps the satellite in s stationary
position above the earth.  That sent the satellite spinning, then
wobbling, causing it to move out of alignment with tousands of
transmitting facilities and receiving dishes on the ground in Canada.

The news business was hit particularly hard. "You just can't find a
decent satellite these days," grumbled Eric Siblin, a copy editor at
the Montreal office of the Canadian Press national news-gathering
co-operative, which stopped providing dispatches to about 100
newspapers because of the malfunction. "All we need is a couple of
carrier pigeons, some long string and two tin cans, and we'll have a
state-of-the-art 19th-century wire service."

Aside from CTV and the Canadian Press, CP affiliate Broadcast News was
also affected, as were CBC Newsworld's internal feeds, the Reuters
wire service Standart Broadcast News and the Toronto Globe and Mail.
The outage interfered with production of today's Gazette, but all
regular features are included in today's editions except some
commodities listings.

At the Globe - which uses Anik E-1 to beam its paper to printing
presses accross the country -- managers had made plans to fly printing
plates to Halifax, Boucherville, Brandon, Man., Calgary and Vancouver
 -- but abandoned them when satellite service resumed. The interruption
also affected abot 450 subscribers to the broadcast news service, said
Wayne Waldroff, general manager of BN. Some feeds from CTV and
french-language TV-5 were switched to the Anik E-2 satellite, Telesat
spokesman Christine Bailey said, before it went kaput.

MAKING LOCAL CALLS

Normand Toupin, a Bell Canada spokesman, said up to 30,000 households
throughout northern Quebec and Ontario and the entire Yukon and
Northwest Territories were restricted to making local calls during the
Anik E-1 outage.

Telesat Canada does $200 million in sales every year and is owned by
Alouette Telecommunications Inc., a consortium controlled by Spar
Aerospace Inc., which made the satellite, and the Stentor group of
Canadian phone companies.

                               ------

Why is it that only the Canadian satellites were affected? The news
tonigh said that an electromagnatic storm was responsible for the
problems.  Wouldn't such a storm affect other satellites also?

PS: Typos are mine. (As always.)


PC

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From: [e-mail] (Dave)
Subject: Public B-ISDN Services in Europe (When?)
Date: 27 Jan 1994 18:22:31 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Dave)


When will there be B-ISDN (ATM) services available to the general
public in Europe? Which countries? Anything in 1994? Costs?

Any information gratefully received.


Dave Pattison   ([e-mail])

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From: [e-mail] (J. Grand)
Subject: Stereo->Phoneline Connection
Date: 27 Jan 94 13:06:16
Organization: Boston University Information Technology Boston, MA USA


Hi I was wondering if anyone had a good circuit to hook up my stereo
to the phone line with minimal noise and hopefully high volume? if so,
please send replies to: [e-mail]


Thanks!

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From: [e-mail] (Jesse Garon)
Subject: Need Help With the DUOFONE TAD-345
Date: 27 Jan 1994 22:01:17 -0600
Organization: Illuminati Online


Due to the earthquake in LA, and the blackout that came with it, the
codes on my answering machine, the TAD-345, marketed by Radio Shack as
a DUOFONE model, were erased.  Since I lost the manual for this
machine when I moved several months ago, I don't know how to reset
these codes.

If somebody could email me instructions for setting the codes that
activate remote retrieval of messages and voice mail (ie, which keys
on the machine are equivalent to which numbers and how to set them) I
would greatly appreciate it.


Thanks,

Jesse Garon

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From: [e-mail] (HO Yat-Fan)
Subject: ATM and HighSpeed Networks
Organization: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 10:29:07 +0800


Hello Dear Netters,

I'd like to ask whether there's any newsgroup where there are
discussions of current issues in Researches in ATM and highspeed
networks.  Also, is there any ftp sites around where papers in this
field can be obtained?

Thanks indeed very very much.


Regards,

Fan

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Rosen)
Subject: Hello Direct Noise Filter Worth Getting?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 05:27:41 GMT


I'm looking at the EMI noise filter in the Hello Direct catalog.  I
currently only have a surge suppressor from Rent-A-Shack on my phone
line.  How do I know if I truly need a noise filter?  Could it make
improvements even though I currently don't notice many problems?

The only problem I have currently is connecting at 14.4K to a Boca
modem; I only connect at 9600.  That could be his modem though I can't
be sure.  It doesn't happen anywhere else.

As for voice communications, what improvements would I expect?


Thanks,

Michael Rosen   [e-mail]
George Washington University Alumni (Fall '92)
Tau Epsilon Phi, Tau Theta 381

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From: [e-mail] (Jim Celoni)
Subject: VTech Tropez Address/Phone?
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 16:13:37 GMT


What are the address and phone number of VTech, manufacturer of Tropez
900MHz cordless phones?  And where are the phones available in the Los
Angeles area or by mail order?


Thanks,

J. R. Celoni    [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Vendor Info on RS-422 and RS-366 Modems
Date: 27 Jan 1994 17:10:23 GMT
Organization: Collins International Services Company


To all:

I am looking for vendor information on modems that have both RS-422 and
RS-366 interfaces and run over copper or fiber optic cable.

I have video teleconferencing and inverse mux equipment that has those
interfaces.  Our campus distribution system has both copper and fiber
optics.  The use of the modems will allow remoting the video teleconferencing
equipment closer to the users.


Thanks in advance,

Mike Foltz    [e-mail]    703-803-8361

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From: [e-mail] (Dahe Chen)
Subject: Telephony History
Date: 27 Jan 1994 17:34:15 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics, Silicon Design Division
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Dahe Chen)


I am reading a book written in 1930's in which telephone numbers are
cited as digits prefixed with a location name in an English word. I
also heard that in the movie "Forever Young" recently. I was wondering
how the switchboards worked then. Were the switchboards actually
divided geographically? Can anyone give a history lesson?


Dahe Chen
Mentor Graphics Corporation
15 Independence Boulevard
Warren, New Jersey 07059
[phone], [phone] (fax)


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Yes, switchboards were 'divided up
geographically'. Until about 1960, the three digit prefixes we have
now were either the first three letters of a word or sometimes the
first two letters of a word and a single digit. Smaller towns had
a single switchboard and larger places like Chicago had many switch-
boards loated in different areas of the town just as now there are
different switching centers in a large town. When telephone calls were
processed entirely by operators, the various switchboards were all
connected together in the same way the switching machines of today are
all interconnected. If you asked the operator for a number which was
not on the same switchboard as yourself, the operator plugged into a
certain jack on the board which connected the call to the desired
switchboard, then she would tell the operator at the distant board
what number was desired. Each of the switchboards had names, just as
each of the switching centers today have numbers assigned to them.
If the number you passed to the operator verbally was not the name
of the switchboard you were using, the instant she heard the name of
the switchboard desired she was already plugging into the associated
jack and by the time you recited the numbers following the name, she
generally had the operator from the distant switchboard on the line.

When connections were handled entirely by operators, the length of
time from you going off hook to getting your party on the line was about
the same as today. The light above your jack on the switchboard illuminated
when your phone went off hook. By the time you got the receiver to your
ear, it is likely the operator was already there asking 'number please?'
and because she knew almost by heart where every jack to all other
switchboards was located on *her* switchboard as soon as she heard the
exchange name she was up there. It would be a brief, interactive
conversation of just seconds in length:

(you go off hook, operator responded usually in five seconds or less)
"Number please?"  (operator speaking to you)
"Wabash 3456"  (you speaking to operator)
"Thank you" (operator speaking to you)

If you were also on the Wabash switchboard your operator would then
continue:

Line is ringing ... or Line is busy. There was no audible busy tone
and only certain swithboards had audible ringing tones. If the first
response, the operator would pull the ringing key forward again about
every fifteen seconds or so for two or three seconds and after maybe
a minute of this (if there was no answer) would say, "Line doesn't
respond" or "Line doesn't answer."

If she told you "Line is busy" of course you just hung up the phone
and tried again later. Courteous subscribers would say thank you first,
then hang up; discourteous subscribers would just slam the phone down or
perhaps curse at the operator in the process.

If you were not on the Wabash switchboard then after saying "thank you"
your operator would already be plugged into Wabash waiting for the
'click sound' which meant the distant operator (who did not speak up
at that point) was on the line, and your operator would say merely,

"3456" (operator speaking to the operator at Wabash switchboard. The
       audible sounds heard were a 'chunk' which meant the distant
       operator had started pulling the ringing key and your operator
       would respond with "Line is ringing". Or, a 'tick-tick' meant
       the distant operator had touched the tip of her cord to the
       sleeve of the jack and found the line busy. Your operator on
       hearing that would report "Line is busy". If she did not pick
       up on it, the distant operator would occassionally speak up
       and say merely "BY" (pronounced 'bee-why') which meant busy.
       After somewhere around a minute, if your party had not answered
       and your operator had not told you there was no response, then
       the distant operator would speak up and say merely "DA" which
       was pronounced 'dee-a') which meant doesn't answer. Either way
       your operator would then report to you the status.)

On a few occassions when the calling traffic was very heavy, your
operator might attempt to connect to the distant switchboard only to
find none of her jacks going to that switchboard to be available and
she would advise you that no circuits were available going there at
this time. Or if she got through to the distant end but *they* were
out of switchboard cords temporarily, then the distant operator would
respond to your operator by saying 'NC' (enn-see) which meant no
circuits right now. If the distant phone was out of order, the
operator's reply to each other was 'OD" (oh-dee). "NW" was not a
good number (no such number in service) and 'denied' was the response
when the called subscriber had been cut off for non-payment, or what
we sometimes call a credit disconnect.

If you asked for 'Information' you were connected to a room full of
clerks who wore headsets with *very long* cords on them who walked
around in a rather large room with stacks of phone books everywhere
plus the most recent (handwritten) list of updates, number changes,
etc. Asking for the 'Business Office' got you the reps who would
discuss your bill, etc by pulling manual, handwritten file folders
out of row after row of racks which closely resembled library stacks.
You also would ask the operator for Repair Service. If you wanted to
make a long distance call you asked for 'Long Distance' and you were
connected to other operators who handled that exclusively from a
different switchboard. Your operator would stay on the line until
long distance answered and pass your number to the LD operator to
avoid the possibility of you 'accidentally' giving the wrong number
for billing purposes when it was requested.

A long distance call consisted of a series of switchboards hooked
together from one place in the country to another. A Chicagoan calling
Los Angeles -- let us assume 'Hollywood 2000' which was the number of
the Paramount switchboard -- would tell LD he wanted that number in
Los Angeles. She would plug into a jack, wait a few seconds and
presently an operator would answer 'St. Louis'. "...St. Louis, this
is Chicago, give me Kansas City ...", and after a few seconds, an
operator would answer 'Kansas City' and your operator would say,
"...Kansas City, this is Chicago, give me Denver ..." when Denver
answered, the operator asked for Salt Lake; and from there she
would ask for Los Angeles. Finally when Los Angeles answered your
operator would ask for Hollywood 2000, and presently the switchboard
at Paramount would answer.

Now your call was connected, and after a minute or so, the line would
go dead!!!  You'd flash your hook furiously and your local operator
would answer. "Operator! you cut me off!"  Your operator would jiggle
the ringing key and get long distance, "Operator! this is the xxx
operator. You cut my party off!" ...."No, I did not cut your party off
operator, they are still up here ..." and she would jiggle the ringing
key until St. Louis answered: "St. Louis! you cut my party off!" "No
I did not, they are still up here." Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake and
finally Los Angeles, always the same answer, "I did not cut your party
off, they are still up here." Finally they'd all get reconnected back
to the Paramount switchboard and blame *her*, and of course she had
no one else to pass the blame to. It could have been any one of the
five or six operators on the line who (a) got the false supervision
signal or (b) just accidentally yanked the wrong cord from your local
operator on one end to Paramount on the other, but none of them would
admit it. Long distance charge tickets were all written up by hand and
time-stamped in a small clock on the switchboards; when a ticket was
stamped out, it went on a spindle and about every fifteen minutes a
clerk from the billing department came through with a cart on wheels
and collected all the tickets which were filed in the file folders so
the service reps could talk to customers about them and the legions
of bookkeepers could post them in ledgers and mail out bills.  PAT]

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 12:28:36 CST
From: L. W. Westermeyer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Request for Info - Cellular Telephone Rate History


I was wondering if you know of any studies on end user cost trends in
the cel lular telephone industry.  I am in the process of evaluating a
set of bids for cellular telephone service and would appreciate if you
could either answer the following questions or direct me to a source
that could answer them.

1.What has been the trend for monthly access fees for cellular
telephone service over the past three or more years?

2.What has been the trend for per minute air time fees for cellular
telephones over the past three or more years?

3.Do you anticipate that these trends will continue?


Voice: [phone]              [e-mail]   (Bitnet)
Fax:   [phone]              [e-mail] (Internet)
Mailing Address: University of Missouri - St. Louis
                 8001 Natural Bridge Road
                 St. Louis, MO 63121 USA

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From: [e-mail] (Sean Wheeler)
Subject: Telecom Texts
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 19:35:00 GMT


Can anyone out there recommend a good Management Level (ie not too
technical) book on telco network design and capacity planning?  I need
to get my feet wet, but don't need to immerse myself in the
technicalities.


Sean D. Wheeler  Fun: [e-mail]
Work: [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Daniel Edward Dindinger)
Subject: Cost Effective Communications
Date: 27 Jan 1994 18:35:17 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Denver


For companies who use over $200 a month in long distance telophone service:

Phoenix Network is a re-biller that buys service from ATT, MCI and
Sprint and resells to small and medium sized companies.

Phoenix's rates start as low as $0.0985/minute depending on your
volume, equipment (e.g. T1's), location and calling patterns.

I would like the opportunity to offer your company a free customized
qoute on your long distance telecommunication needs.

Call me at [phone] and start saving your company $$$ next month!


Daniel Edward Dindinger   [e-mail]
7195 S Sherman st. Littleton, CO 80122   [phone]


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Let's be careful about commercializing
the net Mr. Dindinger!  Some of the Usenetters get real bent out of
shape with messages like yours. In the future, please word your messages
so they appear to be 'infomercials' or 'reviews' rather than out and
out commercials.  For examples of how to do it, check out the messages
posted by that guy who talks about Orange Cards from time to time. PAT]

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 13:55 EST
From: The Network Group <[e-mail]>
Subject: GTE and the CA Earthquake


With all the GTE bashing that I see from time to time I'd like to give
credit where credit is due.

I have a CONTEL pager that uses an access numb er that is normally
long distance from our C.O., but uses screened billing so charges to
access the end to end pager number never appear on our Contel bill.

Due to the earthquake in San Fernando Valley, I had to relocate
temporarily to look after my 88 year old mother and see to repairs of
our family home in Reseda -- two miles from the epicenter of the
quake.

I called GTE and in turn they called Contel and gave me a free access
number on my pager for the next 30 days to help out. I thought that
was very nice of them considering all of the horror stories that I'd
seen and hear on the net.

Contel and GTE are both licensed on VHF 158.1 Mhz. but in different
geographical locations so after we got to the right people -- consumer
service I might add -- the whole thing was done within an hour!


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: GTE isn't a bad bunch of people. I've
talked to a few who read the Digest regularly and they seem pretty
sharp to me. They've been handling the latest disaster pretty well,
IMO. (Hey look, no /H/ in there ... I don't give humble opinions.)  PAT]

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From: [e-mail] (Barak Cohen)
Subject: A Highspeed Modem For BB by GI and Intel
Organization: Tel-Aviv University Computation Center
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 03:00:42 GMT


Hello folks,

I heard about the project of GI and Intel of a highspeed modem for
broadband medium (like CATV). Can any of you give more details about
this project?


Thanks,

Barak Cohen             Tel Aviv University             Goman Communication LTD
                        Engineering Faculty             2nd Hazmaut St. Raanana
                        Physical Electronics Dep.       ISRAEL 43460
Tel/Fax: [phone]
Tel:     [phone]   Email: [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 00:19 EST
From: Sean Slattery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Pager Software Wanted


I am considering getting a pager to alert me of problems on my
network, i.e. server down, WAN down etc.  The software offered by the
major paging company's seems geared to use by a human and doesn't seem
to have a machine interface.

Does anyone know of a software package designed to monitor Netware or
Unix (perferably both) networks and send alpha messages to a pager if
certain events occur (or don't occur)?  Alternatively a package with
an interface to which I could add my own scripts/batch files?


Sean Slattery ([e-mail])
Airflow Research & Mfg.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Pulse Dialing
Date: 27 Jan 1994 22:14:05 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620


Does anyone know of a way that one can detect pulse dialing on a
telephone line just from the signal at the receiving end of a call?

I am trying to write a voice-mail type system and have no problems
detecting DTMF tones using 16 parallel Gortzel detectors, but I would
like to know if there is an easy way to detect pulse dial -- since here
in the UK a lot of people still have pulse dial phones.


Simon

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From: Adam C. Gross <[e-mail]>
Subject: Establishing a 1-900 Number
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 00:23:53 -0500
Organization: Senior, Student Defined Major, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Sorry if this is a FAQ, but does anyone have info on how I can
establish a 1-900 number (I'm in Pittsburgh/Bell Atlantic)?  Please
email replies.


Much thanks,

Adam


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: All the long distance companies have 900
service available. Call your carrier of choice and ask. Even most of
the local telcos have local area 900 service (although sometimes they
sell it as 976 or 540).  PAT]

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 10:32:13 EST
From: Bob Rankin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Programming For Dialogic


I recently called Dialogic and requested info on PC/telephony cards.
I got a very nice package describing their hardware offerings and also
a bunch of literature from vendors who offer programming tools,
application generators, etc.

One such vendor, U.S. Telecom, is making an offer that looks very
attractive.  They have a "10th anniversary special" package that
includes a D41/D card (4-port) and the VAL toolkit for $1495.  They
said it's $500 off the regular price until Feb. 15th.

The person I spoke with was very interested in learning more about
TELECOM Digest, especially how to access from Compuserve, Delphi, etc.
I didn't have that info handy, so if anyone wants to enlighten these
folks, You can call US Telecom at 800-835-7788, ext 1113.

Is it really That Hard to program for the Dialogic cards?  Is there a
library of useful subroutines or source code examples floating about?


(All standard disclaimers apply)
Bob Rankin ([e-mail])


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, I had a Dialogic card and no source
code at one point; Dialogic very kindly sent me a large manual with lots
of routines written in 'c' along with a couple sample programs which were
most useful. They are nice people. PAT]

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 17:41:03 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Amer Neely)
Subject: Remapping Phone Buttons


Hello all ...

I have a third-party phone which I purchased quite some time ago.
Recently a friend tried to call her place to check for messages on her
Bell Call Answer. She couldn't get past the point where she was asked
to `Press the pound key ...'. On my phone it's mapped to a Redial
function.  Is it possible to re-wire the phone or something so this
can be done? I don't really need the redial and would just as soon
have a fully compatible phone if possible (without renting one from
Bell). Also, the star button is mapped to Mute. Is this something I
can change too?

Thanks in advance and bcnu ...


Amer Neely, P.O. Box 1538 Stn. B,
London  ON, CANADA, N6A 5M3
42,15'N x 81,14'W +251m
Internet: [e-mail]
E-mail for PGP 2.3 signature block.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Call Home For .15c/Min via 1-800 Number
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 13:56:35 GMT


Call home for 0.15c/min using a no fee 1-800 number. For more
information call 1-800-323-0954 or fax name and address to
1-800-848-9579. You may answer to USENET but send no e-mail please:)


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Hey, the same to you! The acceptable
use policy for this network plainly states the only acceptable form
of advertising is that which is done up to appear that it is research
into various tariffs, etc. Don't be so bald-faced about it next time!  PAT]

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From: [e-mail] (Phillip "Ty" Young)
Subject: Anchor 1200baud Modem Manual Wanted
Date: 27 Jan 1994 14:36:23 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas


I've tried posting this to some of the other comm. groups around here
and had very little in the way of helpful responses.  I'm looking for
the manual for an Anchor Automation 1200E modem (ca. 1987 vintage).
If you have one of these, or at least know the DIP switch settings,
could you respond?  Thanks very much.


Ty Young

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: ESTELLE Help Wanted
Date: 27 Jan 1994 15:09:54 GMT
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster


Hi,

I am looking for a PD or ShareWare ESTELLE compiler/intrepreter for
dos or windows environment. I searched SIMTEL20 with no luck.  I'd
highly appreciate any info or pointer regarding it. Thanks in advance.


Anwar   e-mail : [e-mail]
Farhat Anwar,                            Phone
Communications Division,                   Office : [phone] Ex-2082
Dept. of Electronic & Electrical Engg.,    Home   : [phone]
University of Strathclyde,
204 George Street, Glasgow G1 1XW, U.K.  Fax      : [phone]

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 15:58:32 EST
From: Carl Moore <[e-mail]>
Subject: Dialing Long Distance From Massachusetts


QUESTION: What happens now for local calls (originating in
Massachusetts) to another area code?

The question arises because of what I had previously collected for the
history file:

I have a note that 413,508,617 (the Massachusetts area codes) were to
change in 1993-94 to 7D for long distance within area code (along with
all other New England areas except Connecticut), BUT that, in Oct.
1993, 1 + NPA + 7D was ordered instead.  I also have, for 413, that
"1 + NPA + 7D for local calls to another area code permissive 1 Mar to 8
Apr 1993".

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