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- From: dan@phoenix.az.stratus.com (Dan Danz)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Can Paging Software Detect Alphanumerics?
- Message-ID: <telecom13.40.1@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 01:00:26 GMT
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- Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
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- mc/G=Brad/S=Hicks/OU=0205925@mhs.attmail.com writes:
-
- > Is it possible under the IXO/TAP protocol, or any companies'
- > interpretations of it, to detect whether or not a particular pager
- > number can receive text pages?
- [...]
- > But sometimes those error messages are helpful. For example, if it's
- > an invalid pager ID, you get a message that says so, so I search the
- > return strings for "INVALID PAGER" and if I find it, don't bother
- > retrying.
-
- > Now what I'd really like, is for the paging computer to detect that
- > I'm trying to send an alphabetic page to a numeric-only pager and give
- > me a <NAK> with an error message that says so. Does anybody do this?
- > Would this be a reasonable thing to ask the folks at Cybertel and/or
- > Skytel to support?
-
- If I send Skytel "**12345", I get back **12345 ... INVALID NUMERIC
- MESSAGE ... ENTER NUMERIC MESSAGE:>
-
- However, since when did SkyTel start using IXO/TAP? I'm currently
- talking to them using their menu-driven PC connection that is
- definitely not IXO/TAP, which I would prefer.
-
-
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