Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!mrsvr.UUCP!saturn.med.ge.com!shaw From: shaw@saturn.med.ge.com (Tom Shaw ct58 Ex 5084) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: phone number service Message-ID: <3333@mrsvr.UUCP> Date: 2 Jan 91 15:34:01 GMT References: Sender: news@mrsvr.UUCP Reply-To: shaw@saturn.UUCP (Tom Shaw ct58 Ex 5084) Distribution: comp.dcom.modems Organization: GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI Lines: 31 In article gplan@sol.aer.com (George Planansky) writes: >1. Is there some code to dial, that will give you the phone >number of the telephone you are dialing from? > >2. Any way to do this via a modem? > >(For instance, if I want to find out what modems on our >terminal servers are connected to what lines, without >tracing a rat's nest of connections (physical and virtual).) >-- >George Planansky >Atmospheric & Environmental Research >840 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 >gplanansky@aer.com (617) 547-6207 fax: 547-6479 Also, is there a way to specify whether or not your call to Europe goes via satellite or via undersea cable?? IS one or the other preferable, that is better line quality?? Tom -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas A. Shaw | Roman rule: G.E. Medical Systems | The one who says it cannot be done 16800 West Ryerson Rd NB-920 | should never interrupt the one who New Berlin, WI 53151 | is doing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- uucp: {uunet!crdgw1|sun!sunbird}!gemed!shaw internet: shawta@gemed.ge.com internet: shawta@comet.med.ge.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------