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From: JDurand@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Eight Digit Phone Numbers?
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In <10544@accuvax.nwu.edu>, nam2254@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil (Tom Ohmer)
writes:

> 1-800-CALL-FRED.  <- Made up

> In the above, is the `D' actually required to make the call, or is it 
> ignored?

Not only is it not needed, but if you are using a pushbutton phone (or
my PBX) in the pulse-dial mode and you dial an extra digit, you will
disconnect the call!  (This does not apply to all central offices,
only the newer ones.)


Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc., jdurand@cup.portal.com