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From: acrosby@uafhp.uark.edu (Albert Crosby)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: call waiting -> modem waiting ?
Summary: put *70 or 1170 in your dialing string
Message-ID: <6782@uafhp.uark.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 18:35:17 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.091936.11547@netcom.COM> <4034.28662f56@hayes.uucp> <615@wybbs.mi.org>
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Organization: College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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In article <615@wybbs.mi.org>, rickt@wybbs.mi.org (Rick Tucker ) writes:
> In some areas you can disable your call waiting.  In our
> city we can disable the call waiting by keying "*70"      (yes a star)
> before you dial the number. This must be done manually(does it????)

You can indeed put *70 in a touch tone dialing string.  If you have pulse, put
1170 in your dialing string instead.  You may find it necessary to put a pause
after it, depending on your phone system.  (On campus, we discovered that
unhooking one of the wires in the phone would disable call waiting and leave
the rest of the system intact.  But it was a strange in-house system.)

I leave call waiting enabled for some calls, and disable it for others...