Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: David E A Wilson Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Octothorpes Message-ID: <12429@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 22 Sep 90 06:03:58 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University Lines: 15 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 666, Message 2 of 11 v116kznd@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Dave Archer) writes: >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. Here in Australia, Telecom introduced pulse only push button phones in about 1970. Some years later they became tone/pulse switchable with 9 memories (*1 thru *9) and last number redial (#) in both pulse & tone mode. To get a * or # in tone mode you had to push ** or ##. David Wilson Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong david@cs.uow.edu.au