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From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Modem woes
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Date: 11 May 91 04:32:47 GMT
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In article <75904@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, v113px6j@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Thomas A Overfield) writes:
> 
> 
> Hi.  I just got a Hayes 2400 baud modem for my Mac, but as usual it's 
> driving me crazy.  I'm using Kermit (hey, it's free) but when I imput 
> "atdt xxx-xxxx" to make it dial I run into a glitch.  It gets a dial 
> tone and then I hear the touch tone beeps as it dials.  Then nothing 
> happens.  I think it could be because I don't have touch tone service 
> and that's why the tones don't get any results.  If this is true how do 
> I make my modem simulate a rotary phone? 
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated since the microcomputer consultant 
> down here didn't have the foggest idea what I was talking about and 
> couldn't be made to understand.  (some consultant).

I agree.  Some consultant.  The answer is:  use ATDP for pulse dialing.  Simple, huh?

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