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From: laba-5ac@web3b.berkeley.edu (Erik Talvola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: modem/software able to handle phone lines with "call waiting"
Message-ID: <7041@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 18 Feb 88 19:24:15 GMT
References: <23340@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <4365@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
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Keywords: modem, software, call waiting, communications

In article <4365@sigi.Colorado.EDU> murillo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo) writes:
>In article <23340@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> foulser@yale.UUCP (david foulser) writes:
>
>>I am looking for a solution to the problem of communicating over a phone line
>>with "call waiting" (in which a second call can come in, signalled by a 
>>beep-beep tone) while the first call is active). In particular, I am looking
>>for something that will handle the beep-beep tone as a signal to me, rather
>>than interpreting it as garbage data.
>
>I don't know if this can be done.  If you want to answer the call, thats
>one thing.  But if you want to ignore it, MaBell has provided a way to
>disable this feature.  Just key *70 before making the call (put this
>in your dial string if you like).  If your area supports this feature,
>you will get a couple tones then a regular dial tone.   Works great.
>
>

  Or, if you do not have a touch-tone line, you may use 1170 instead of *70
to cancel call waiting.  However, I don't know how you can keep it active
and have it signal to you without putting garbage over the modem.  This
would be helpful, since if I call somewhere, I don't want to have the line
garbled with call-waiting information, but I also would like to know if 
calls come in.  



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Erik Talvola          laba-5ac@widow.berkeley.edu

"To err is human... to moo bovine."