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From: David Ptasnik <davep@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: System 75 Abbreviated Dialing
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In article 7629 of comp.dcom.telecom, GREEN@wharton.upenn.edu (Scott
D. Green) writes:

>Does anyone out there in PBX-land know how to program a # or * into a
>S75 Abbreviated Dial (1-button speeddial) string?  In a normal dial

Sorry that it has taken so long to reply to this, but I just attended
an AT&T System 75 training course.  You cannot send a # in any way
from a 75.  Hard to believe but true.  It cannot be dialed manually,
and it cannot be embedded in a speed dialing string.  AT&T doesn't use
it, so it must not be important to them.  At least, neither the AT&T
instructor, nor any of the eight class members could get it to do it.
This is with the latest software available for the switch.  Coming
from a Key System background, I found the limitations on this switch
very disconcerting.  I thought PBX's were supposed to provide more
user functions, not fewer.


davep@u.washington.edu


[Moderator's Note: So if I use a bank by phone service, a digital
display pager, or dial international calls and would prefer to time
myself out with an octothorpe on the end I am high and dry with a
System 75, eh?  Marvelous.   PAT]