makela@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) (04/24/89)
Well, talking about flash buttons that are not the same as "flashing" the handset... over here at the other end of the galaxy, there are two types of flash buttons existent: the red ones and the white ones. The Red Button does the same as "flashing" the handset, but it's timed. The White Button shorts the "3rd cable" (all our phone plugs are three-pronged) with the, er, "ring". On a normal 2-wire telephone line you of course need the red one. Many small exchanges however use 3-wiring, so the flash signal is a kind of a offband signal, albeit a simple one... Otto J. Makela (with poetic license to kill), University of Jyvaskyla InterNet: makela@tukki.jyu.fi, BitNet: MAKELA_OTTO_@FINJYU.BITNET BBS: +358 41 211 562 (V.22bis/V.22/V.21, 24h/d), Phone: +358 41 613 847 Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE