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From: fry@huma1.HARVARD.EDU (David Fry)
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Subject: Re: Hypercard lossage
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Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 16:18:37 EDT
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In article <1017@vi.ri.cmu.edu> rwb@vi.ri.cmu.edu (Bob Berger) writes:
>Hypercard would be the ideal program for accessing various touch-tone
>based information services. Unfortunately, the dial command ignores
>"*" and "#", which many of these services use. Apparantly the programmer
>never saw a need to dial non-digits. Sigh.
>
>
>Robert Berger
>Berger@c.cs.cmu.edu


HyperCard knows how to dial non-numeric characters.  Open the
message box and type 'dial "#" with modem "ATDT"' and hear it 
make the noise.  I
assume your problem is the Phone Stack whose script
purposefully removes all non-numeric characters before doing
the dialing.

Open the Phone stack and choose "Stack Info" (assuming you've
set yourself to "Scripting Level").  If you click on the
"Script..." button you can scroll through the routine that
does the dialing.  You'll find two instances of the string
'"0123456789"'.  Replace each of these with '"0123456789#*"'
and you're in luck.

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