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In article <12267@accuvax.nwu.edu>, wiml@milton.u.washington.edu
(William Lewis) writes...

>the other buttons? On a related question, is there any "standard" for
>what the * and # buttons do on pulse-dial phones? Mute and redial are
>(respectively) fairly common in my experience, how widespread is this?
>Maybe sending 11 and 12 pulses would be more consistent, if less
>useful =8)

I've got a pulse/tone switchable phone that uses * for mute and # for
redial.  It does mute/redial regardless of whether you're in pulse or
tone mode, which of course means, you can't send a * or # in tone.
What bothers me about it is that they still have the buttons labeled
as * and #.