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From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
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Subject: Re: Can a Modem be use just to dial phone#'s?
Message-ID: <2082@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 16 Aug 90 19:19:49 GMT
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Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
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In article <5082.26ca937a@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> gzgj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>Is it possible to use the Modem just to dial phone numbers so that
>it will let you pick-up the phone to talk ?

Sure.  Just issue the dialing command, then when you pick up the reciever issue
a hangup command [ATH in Hayes-compatible]

>I know that this sound a little weird, but I have a Touch Tone
>telephone which can not be used in Pulse Mode, an Emerson 2400EX
>Modem (Hayes compatible), and a Pulse Telephone Line, (Am I cheap?)

Are you sure your touch-tone phone won't work on the pulse line?  Here in 
Minneapolis, I have used touch-tone phones for years without telling the
phone company I wanted a touch-tone line.  My dad has used touch-tone phones
for at least the past 7 years on a supposedly "non-touch-tone" phone line in
his office, which is in Cambridge, a town of 3000 people [by which I mean to
indicate the smallness and non-cutting-edgeness of Cambridge].

<chaz>

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