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From: tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: phone number service
Summary: telco line ID
Message-ID: <723@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 91 16:20:51 GMT
References: <GPLAN.91Jan2012015@sol.aer.com>
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In article <GPLAN.91Jan2012015@sol.aer.com>, 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?

There is no universal number for doing this.  Telephone companies have
these, but they keep them secret and change them to prevent the rest
of us from using them.
> 
A few months back there was an 800 number that did a demo of this
that would read back your calling number based upon 800 caller ID, but it
got too popular, and was disconnected by the providers.


Tad Cook
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