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From: kik@wjh12.harvard.edu (Ken Kreshtool)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Modem woes
Message-ID: <602@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 11 May 91 19:59:28 GMT
References: <75904@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: kik@wjh12.UUCP (Ken Kreshtool)
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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In article <75904@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v113px6j@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu 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? 

"at" means you are using the "at" command set; "d" means dial; "t" means
"tone".  If you want pulse dialing, type "atdp xxx-xxxx".  For many modems, and
probably your Hayes, the default is pulse, so you could also type "atd
xxx-xxxx".

>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).

Most of our computer consultants are exactly the same.  Sigh.

Ken Kreshtool
kik@wjh12.harvard.edu