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From: stel@tank.uchicago.edu (stelios  valavanis)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: call waiting
Message-ID: <3285@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 17 May 89 17:18:41 GMT
References: <4541@brains.UUCP>
Reply-To: stel@tank.uchicago.edu (stelios  valavanis)
Organization: University of Chicago
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In article <4541@brains.UUCP> jeff_bray%brains@iisat.UUCP writes:
>re: call waiting:
>  Whoever was tlking about the call waiting thing, I read a Compute! article
>that said that in some phone systems you can dial "*70" then your number you
>are dialing at it would disable call waiting for one call only. I don't know
>if it will work everywhere or not. Somebody should call the operator and
>ask... They should have a modem-operator, eh? JB 
>--
>   -===------===-    From Jeff Bray at Cerebral Cortex BBS System

The '*70' disable should work on any Bell touch-tone system (and many others).
You can do this before calling (voice) long distance to prevent interruptions.
With a modem you should include a comma to pause before dialing the rest of 
the number i.e. '*70,xxx-xxxx'.  The comma pauses (hayes compatible command)
long enough to get the dial tone back.

stel


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