[comp.dcom.modems] Telebit Dial Tone Wait Time

clarke@acheron.UUCP (Ed Clarke) (09/09/88)

I've been using S6=7 to get a seven second timeout on a secondary
dial tone (the W command):

  ATDT9501088Wxxx

The problem with this has been that there was ALWAYS a seven second
delay before the first number (9) is dialed ( you get to listen to 
seven seconds of dial tone ).  I just discovered by accident that a 
preliminary W eliminates the initial seven second delay:

  ATDTW9501088Wxxx

The telebit starts dialing as soon as it detects dial tone.  Maybe
everyone but me understood this but I've never seen it used before.
For what its worth ...

Ed Clarke
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