Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!styx!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!cbatt!ukma!david From: david@ukma.ms.uky.csnet (David Herron, NPR Lover) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: touchtone dialing always works Message-ID: <5370@ukma.ms.uky.csnet> Date: Sat, 20-Dec-86 10:48:46 EST Article-I.D.: ukma.5370 Posted: Sat Dec 20 10:48:46 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 22:44:48 EST References: <750@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU> <2365@psuvax1.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ukma.ms.uky.csnet (David Herron, NPR Lover) Distribution: na Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 18 Keywords: touchtone In GTE land (Lexington, KY) touchtone doesn't work on a non-touchtone line. I have a Prometheus Pro-modem here, when it dials a phone number it first tries to do the first digit as touchtone, looks to see if the carrier tone went away, and since it didn't do the dial phone stuff. Oh, I currently live in an older neighborhood (read "student ghetto"), but last year when I was living in a more modern neightborhood I was getting the same results. I too see no reason to have to pay extra so I can have touchtone. All it will gain me is slightly faster dialing. (Well, there are a few fancy features now-adays, hold, call-forwarding, etc, but I'm not interested in them -- ESPECIALLY the one that announces an incoming caller with that silly beep tone!) -- David Herron, cbosgd!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET, david@ms.uky.csnet (I'm also "postmaster", "news", "netnews", "uucp", "mmdf", and ...) "What have I got in my pocketses?" -- I never heard such a stupid damn riddle!