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From: newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: US modem in UK
Message-ID: <14751@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 4 May 89 00:42:43 GMT
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In article <894@sering.cwi.nl> piet@cwi.nl (Piet Beertema) writes:
>Yes, this is Europe... And in Britain you might have to dial the number
>the way they write their domains: backward. :-)
Note that in New Zealand this is what you DO have to do, or more precisely,
if using pulse dialling you have to dial the 10's complement of the number
(if you have an o'seas modem) since we number our telephone dials clockwise
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. More logical user interface, yes? Who cares that it means
that a "1" generates 9 pulses and a "9" generates 1 :-)
The good news is that DTMF is almost universal here.