richmon@astrovax.UUCP (Michael Richmond) (09/21/85)
Here's a tough one: my university has decided not to pay for touch-tone
service, so I have set my 7300 to use the rotary-phone codes. No problem
when I call most places, but it seems there is one computer I would like
to call that is inside a phone system which does not accept rotary clicks.
That is, I call 123-4567 (no problem) and, having reached the company
internal system, get a dial tone. Now the 7300 dials the extension, but
it isn't recognized and the call fails.
So, how can one work around this? If I could get the machine to use rotary
clicks to dial the main number, then switch to touch-tone and dial the
extension, things would be great. Unfortunately, without the source to
uucp, this isn't easy. I tried to find the <thing> that makes the 7300
use rotary or touch-tone (whatever is changed by the 'Telephone Setup'
process) so that perhaps I could manually change it from rotary to
touch-tone between dialing 123-4567 and 9999 (there is a pause of about
five seconds), but I haven't figured out what the <thing> is. Is this
a possibility? Any other hints? Someone has suggested buying a device that
would switch my telephone line so that it would recognize touch-tone, but
I don't see exactly how that would work.
--
Michael Richmond Princeton University, Astrophysics
{allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!richmonrlk@chinet.UUCP (Richard L. Klappal) (09/23/85)
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