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- Date: 20 Aug 92 17:40:29 EDT
- From: Toby Nixon <tnixon@hayes.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Portable DTMF Generator With ABCD?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.648.10@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA
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- In article <telecom12.627.15@eecs.nwu.edu>, leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.
- com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
-
- > Alas, many of the newer ones are capable of translating those "cute"
- > numbers like 1-800-ABCDEFG. Which means that when you dial A, B or C
- > you get 2. And you get 3 for D. *Older* Hayes and USR modems could
- > dial the ABCD tones. <sigh>
-
- > [Moderator's Note: When dialing letters on the modem aren't they
- > required to be put in quotes, i.e. 'DIAL THIS'. I'd think the modem
- > could see that 123-'ABCD' was different than 123-ABCD (no quotes). PAT]
-
- Hayes has specified that alphabetic dialing be as Pat states it,
- except I think we say it should be a double-quote character (").
- This is necessary to avoid confusion with dial modifiers such as T,
- P, W, R, and S, and the dial digits A, B, C, and D. I think
- Practical Peripherals has already implemented this in at least one
- of their modems, and Hayes will soon (if we haven't already; I just
- come up with the ideas, I don't write the code!).
-
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