Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pacbell!att!chinet!mcdchg!clyde!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Call waiting and modems??
Summary: only some areas allow disabling
Message-ID: <518@mks.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 88 16:13:02 GMT
References: <8876@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <8379@mhuxu.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 23

In article <8379@mhuxu.UUCP>, jmj@mhuxu.UUCP (J. M. Johnson) writes:
> In article <8876@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, sjflim@trillium.waterloo.edu (SJF LIM) writes:
> => Is there anyway that I can by pass the Call
> => waiting feature or temperory disconnect this feature?
> 
> Check the front of your phone book.  There are instructions for disabling
> the Call Waiting beep.  On page 8 of the Reading, PA phone book Tone*Block
> is explained.

This subject has come up in the newgroups related to telephony, and it
appears that some telephone companies have the ability to turn it off
while others do not.  In this area (Waterloo), they apparently do not. 

On the one hand, it would be nice to disable it so it didn't interfere
with file transfers and so no.  On the other hand, the fact that calls
will get through even when my computer is using the line is a feature as
far as my wife is concerned.  I guess it's a mixed blessing. 

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