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- Automatic Telephone Dialing System:
- This program
- has a built in intelligent Telephone\Speakerphone Dialing System,
- that dials all of your phone calls for you and tells you
- if they are local, local toll, long distance,
- long distance toll, or international
- and can output up to 20 follow on codes after dialing long distance.
-
- The program stores & dials up to one BILLION phone numbers for you,
- and will dial from:
- Dallas to New York,
- Sydney to Melbourne,
- or London to Leeds!
-
- Overview:
-
- This dialer is installed from Other Options Menu, Install menu, option 5. ì
- [The Install menu is presented to you upon initial installation, but you ì
- can return to it at any time.] Once installed, it can differentiate ì
- between local and long distance area codes, and can even dial a local toll ì
- call for you. It can dial through your PBX, if necessary, and can even ì
- connect to a local access number for a long distance dialing service, and ì
- then input up to 20 digits.
-
- The dialing feature is available to you at these screens: Client file, ì
- G)et option; Activity file, A)dd option; Activity file, G)et option. On ì
- the bottom of these three screens you will observe either F8 to dial and F9 ì
- to hang up, should you elect to hang up prematurely. Of the 3 entry points ì
- into the dialing system, the most typically used is the Activity file, A)dd ì
- option.
-
- This will install the program for automatic phone dialing through a Hayes ì
- or Hayes-compatible modem.
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- Install procedure for automatic phone dialing
-
-
- In 2 of the following options you can enter characters mixed with numbers. ì
- The purpose of this is to tell the modem to pause between dialing. The ì
- comma does this. The exact time of the pause you will have to determine ì
- through trial and error, but is generally 2 seconds per comma. For ì
- example,
- 9,,,
-
- would tell the modem to dial '9', then wait 6 seconds. The only other ì
- valid dialing characters are:
-
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 * #
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- Local Toll Numbers:
- [your area code]
- è
- The program will recognize local 'TOLL' calls if you enter the word 'TOLL' ì
- as the first 4 letters in 'Referred by: ', in the Client File, Add or Get ì
- option. With a toll call, the program will dial: PBX option + Toll Sequence ì
- + 7 digit phone number.
-
- Long Distance Toll Numbers:
- [any one area code other than yours]
-
- Long distance toll dialing sequence. This must be an area code other than ì
- yours. The program creates this Long Distance TOLL number:
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- PBX Prefix + Long Distance Toll Sequence + 7 digit number.
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- Enter word 'LDTL' in 'REFERRED BY' field, Client file, for LD Toll.
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- Follow on codes:
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- You can enter any code or up to 20 codes that follow your long distance ì
- number, if you wish. Some long distance services, for example, use this ì
- feature as a way of entering accounting codes for users. This option then ì
- requires you enter F8 twice during dialing. Observe the 'Push F8 Again' ì
- message.
-
- Note on PBX dialing:
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- You can mix and match pulse with tone dialing. Precede your number with ì
- 'T' for tone, followed by 'P' to restore pulse. For example, 'T9,P' would ì
- sent a '9' tone, followed by a pause [,], then restored to pulse with 'P'.
-
-
- ==Automatic dialing for countries outside of the U.S.A. and Canada:==
-
- Establishing a default 'area code/STD':
-
- You can do this in one of two places in this program. On the Installation ì
- menu is option 5):
- Install Automatic Phone Dialing through modem.
-
- Once selected, this option gives you the ability to define your 'area ì
- code/STD'. You can also select this value from the Other Option Menu, ì
- option C):
- Customize this system to your needs
-
- Once there, you can select option 2:
- 2) Default State, City, State, Area Code
-
-
- Once you define your 'area code/STD', the program will then assign that ì
- value to all new records in the Client file, followed by a '/'. Let's say ì
- that you assign an 'area code/STD' of '03'. Every time you add a record to ì
- the Client file, you will see this as in the phone number field:
- Phone: 03/
-
- For all those numbers that fall within this STD, enter the local number ìèafter the '03/', without any spaces. For example:
-
- Phone: 03/6465255
-
- The program will interpret this to mean that the 'area code/STD' is '03', ì
- while the local number is '6465255'. You can have up to 5 characters in ì
- the 'area code/STD', with any combination of leading zeros. If your 'area ì
- code/STD' has one digit, while an adjacent STD has 5, the program will ì
- figure out which are local and which phone numbers are long distance and ì
- will then dial them accordingly.
-
- For the dialing system to work properly, you must identify an 'area ì
- code/STD' for ALL numbers, including local ones. Also, the program uses ì
- the '/' as a marker to distinguish between the 'area code/STD' and the ì
- local number. Make sure that in your entry for phone number, you exclude ì
- any spaces.
-
-
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- STD Local Number
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- Melbourne 03 6465255 [your number, let's say]
-
- Melbourne 03 6465252 [a branch office]
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- Sydney 02 6532389 [a customer]
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- Brisbane 07 3741311 [another customer]
-
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- First, you would enter '03' as your default 'area code/STD'. Then, in the ì
- Client file, you would enter these numbers in the phone field:
-
-
- First record 03/6465252 [a branch office]
- second record 02/6532389 [a customer]
- third record 07/3741311 [another customer]
-
- Once you told the program to dial the number, the program would figure out ì
- which are local, which are long distance, and would dial them accordingly.
-
-
- ===== Great Britain: =====
-
-
- Within its STD's, Great Britain also uses a series of 'local codes'. ì
- 'Local codes' are defined to exist within one 'Dialing directory'.
-
-
- Different STD's, same 'Dialing directory':
-
- èIn some cases, two towns have different STDs but are so close that they can ì
- dial each other with a 'local code' instead of using an STD. Observe, for ì
- example, these two numbers:
-
-
-
- STD Local Number
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- Bradford 0274 723101 [your number, let's say]
-
- Yeadon, Leeds 0532 501496 [a customer]
-
-
- Let's say, further, that Bradford and Yeadon are 10 miles apart and ì
- Bradford can dial Yeadon by using a 'local code' of '92'. In that case you ì
- can enter these numbers in either of two manners:
-
- 1) Define your default 'area code/STD' as '0274' and then identify the ì
- Yeadon customer with its unique STD in this manner: 0532/501496. Once ì
- the program sees '0532/501496', the program will dial the STD of '0532' and ì
- then the local number of '501496'.
-
- 2) Define your default 'area code/STD' as '0274' as above, but enter the ì
- local code instead of the STD for your Yeadon customer. Let's say you ì
- entered: 92/501496. The program would then dial the local code of '92', ì
- followed by the local number of '501496'.
-
-
-
- ===== Dialing Numbers Internationally: =====
-
- Let's say that the number you are dialing does not fit into any of the ì
- above categories, as would be the case when dialing from country to counì
- try. If, for example, you are dialing from the United States to Australia, ì
- the U.S. access code is '011', followed by the country code of '61'. Once ì
- dialed, the city code is then entered, followed by the local number. One ì
- example would be:
-
- '011 61 3 5092911'
-
- To dial these types of international numbers in the program, enter the ì
- number into either COMMENT1 or COMMENT2 of the Client record, in this form:
-
- INTL=011,61,3,5092911/
-
- The 'INTL=' code tells the program to use this number for dialing, not ì
- whatever appears in the telephone field. Each comma tells the modem to ì
- pause for 2 seconds. The slash '/' tells the program where the last digit ì
- lies. Without the slash, the 'INTL=' code will not work.
-
- Observe that it does not matter where the 'INTL=' code is found in COMMENT1 ì
- or COMMENT2, and case is irrelevant. 'INTL=' is that same as 'Intl='.
-
-
- Once entered into the Client record, the entire code for your international ìènumber is carried over into each new activity record. Once inside the ì
- activity record, the program will sense that this is an international ì
- number and dial it accordingly, when requested from the activity file.
-
- If you establish a PBX number, then it is dialed before the international ì
- number.
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