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From: hayes!tnixon@uunet.uu.net (Toby Nixon)
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Subject: Re: Modem Recognizes Boing?
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Date: 10 Dec 90 00:56:24 GMT
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In article <15287@accuvax.nwu.edu>, phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip
Miller) writes:

> Hey Toby, when is Hayes going to introduce an AT command to "wait for
> boing" -- it sure would make it easier to write scripts for signing
> onto my computer system from hotel rooms around the country (including
> Florida :-)

Company policy forbids me to comment on unannounced features.
However, in my role as chairman of TIA TR-30.4 (the USA standards
committee on DTE-DCE Protocols), I will say that the current draft of
SP-2120 (the US national AT command set, still under development)
includes a proposal for a "$" dial modifier, defined as "Wait for
Credit Card Prompt Tone".  I wouldn't be at all surprised if one or
more modem manufacturers took this cue and included such a feature in
their modems.

In the meantime, I've found that the "@" dial modifier (Wait for Quiet
Answer) often works well, particularly with AT&T (if you can get into
a hotel that actually lets you use AT&T without speaking to a voice
operator -- an increasingly rare occurrence these days, it seems! [I'm
now in New Jersey for ANOTHER meeting, and in my second hotel in two
weeks that has a god-awful AOS with 10288 blocked]).  "@" will usually
trigger on the boing, but the key to it working is if the operator
stays off the line for the five seconds it takes for "@" to time out.


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