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From: covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert)
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Subject: Re: Alphanumeric Paging
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Date: 9 Mar 91 02:15:39 GMT
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> You need one of the Motorola terminals due to some "special codes"
 
Well, a friend of mine used to have service which used the Motorola
terminals, and I was able to call into their system on a 300 bps line
at 7E1 with local echo (often inappropriately called half duplex).
 
After the system answers, a carriage return gets the "id=" prompt, to
which I reply "M" (upper case).  The system then prompts for Pager ID,
at which point I enter the seven digit pager number.  The system then
prompts for Message, at which point I can enter the message,
correcting with ^H.  The system then prompts for "Another page?".
 

john