[comp.dcom.telecom] Automatic hook-flash

msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) (04/13/89)

> Will's problem is not with Centrex, it is with his telephone!  There are
> a half a dozen companies that sell telephones with a "Flash" button:  press
> it and it flashes the switchhook for exactly the appropriate amount of time
> for call waiting or 3-way calling.

I've also seen the button called "Link".

But this doesn't solve Will's problem.  Will's problem wasn't that he had
trouble flashing the hook for the right length of time -- it was that the
system accepted an on-hook period longer than that length as being a flash.
False positive, not false negative, so to speak.

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