Xref: utzoo gnu.misc.discuss:3110 comp.misc:12585 comp.dcom.modems:9784 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ee.rochester.edu!moscom!wjb From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.misc,comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: hayes lawsuit Message-ID: <2746@moscom.UUCP> Date: 17 May 91 12:55:49 GMT References: <1991May13.044909.3617@netdev.comsys.com> <1991May14.001350.4394@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <1991May15.181614.7845@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) Organization: Moscom Corp., E. Rochester, NY Lines: 23 In article <1991May15.181614.7845@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@clio.sts.uiuc.edu (Mike Berger) writes: >How about the hookswitch on a telephone? Tapping the hookswitch in a >properly timed way would get the operator's attention, invoke special >features, etc. Telephone hookswitches predate hayes modems. For that matter, you can dial with your hookswitch... a group of n taps will dial digit n (don't try this on long distance numbers, it's easy to screw it up :-) (I've used this feature on a phone where the digits on the pad didn't work...) There's even an out of band command... hangup. :-+ >-- > Mike Berger > Department of Statistics, University of Illinois > AT&TNET 217-244-6067 > Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu -- "Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard." "Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?" ------------------------------------------------------------- Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com