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From: dnanian@uw.com (Dave Nanian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXT fax modems and call waiting.
Message-ID: <1991May5.161517.1063@uw.com>
Date: 5 May 91 16:15:17 GMT
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Reply-To: dnanian@uw.com (Dave Nanian)
Organization: UnderWare, Inc.
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I've posted this bit to the NeXT-L before, so if this ends up a duplicate post,  
please excuse me.

Those of you with NeXT fax modems may have noticed that NeXT's "illegal  
character stripper" is quite agressive.  Basically, all non-numeric, non-comma  
characters are removed from the field before sending it to the modem.  Needless  
to say, this makes it quite difficult to send "w" for a dialtone wait, or "*"  
and "#", both legal phone dialing characters.

This usually isn't much of a problem unless you happen to be sharing a phone  
line with the fax, and the phone line has call waiting.  Normally, call waiting  
is turned off with "*70" -- but this gets stripped to "70", which doesn't work.

Fortunately, there is a solution available until NeXT cleans up their dialer  
code:  use "1170" instead of "*70", as it seems to do the same thing.

--Dave Nanian, UnderWare, Inc (dnanian@uw.com, uunet!uw!dnanian, NeXT mail  
preferred)