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From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Modems and Telephone Lines
Message-ID: <1989Nov27.170023.14884@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 27 Nov 89 17:00:23 GMT
References: <13410@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1989Nov20.135228.2503@ug.cs.dal.ca>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <1989Nov20.135228.2503@ug.cs.dal.ca> morrison@ug.cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Brad Morrison) writes:
>For most phone lines there are four wires.  They are really two pairs of
>wires.  I believe it's Black & Red, and Green & Yellow.  Each pair is for


Actually green & red are one phone line, and black & yellow are another. When
only one phone line is in use, usually the green & red are it.

Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
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