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From: dl@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Touchtones
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Date: 2 Jul 89 01:10:09 GMT
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> Article <1989Jul1.223548.27654@utzoo.uucp> From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)

# In article <860@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
# >[A]-[D] are part of the touchtone standard but are presently unused.
Ahhem,
Not QUITE true. Autovon (the 4 wire military telephone system that
somehow achieves standards of audio level, crosstalk, and dead
connections previously available only with string and Dixie
cups) uses them. They are labeled Priority, Immediate, Flash,
and Flash Override. Their function is to bump some grunt off
the net to allow the bigbrass to talk. FO is only for use of
war or cold pizza at the General's house.