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- From: billr@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Bill Richmond)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Call Waiting and Modems (was Re: Modem Use and Phone Calls)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.141059.21632@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 14:10:59 GMT
- References: <110565@muvms3.bitnet> <Brt1CK.FJn@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <protein.711837473@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> <1992Jul23.050110.10778@rice.edu>
- Sender: billr@iplmail (Bill Richmond)
- Organization: Martin Marietta
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- |> Yes. There is no communications program that I've ever heard of that handles
- |> call waiting, since the call waiting 'beep' is an interruption of the modem
- |> carrier. However, you can turn off call waiting for a particular call by
- |> prefixing it with *70: at least, it works for SW Bell in Houston. Your
- |> mileage my vary.
- |>
- In the Orlando, Fl area, the ability to turn off call waiting as
- you suggest is a pay service. That's right, pay to have it & pay again if you
- wanna be able to turn it off to use the modem...Sad isn't it...
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- Don't get suckered in by
- |\ the comments -- they can
- O __________|_\______ be terribly misleading.
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