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From: olasov@cs.columbia.edu (Benjamin Olasov)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: phone number service
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.062229.26791@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 91 06:22:29 GMT
References: <GPLAN.91Jan2012015@sol.aer.com> <723@ssc.UUCP>
Reply-To: olasov@cs.columbia.edu (Benjamin Olasov)
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In article <723@ssc.UUCP> tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) writes:
)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.

In New York City, dialing 958 will do this- I don't know about other
cities.

Ben		olasov@cs.columbia.edu