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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: need info (incoming calls while using modem)
Message-ID: <254@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 19 Jul 88 16:10:50 GMT
References: <28726@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> <7622@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <36090@linus.UUCP> <284@mrsvr.UUCP> <3219@tekigm2.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner)
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In article <3219@tekigm2.TEK.COM> neals@tekigm2.UUCP (Neal Sedell) writes:
|> If your phone has call waiting, you can temporarily disable it (on a
|> per call basis) by pressing #70 before you dial the phone.  (After
|> pressing #70, you'll get another dial tone).  The result is that
|> callers will get a busy signal and your modem won't be interrupted.
|> I've used this quite a lot with great success.
|
|Well, the magic sequence here is *70.  I tried #70 just in case my memory
|had lapsed and it started ringing so I hung up.  After the *70 the dial
|tone was interrupted a couple times and came back on for the actual call.

If you have only pulse, dialing 1170 should work also.

  Bill
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