Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!uwvax!puff!plocher From: plocher@puff.WISC.EDU (John Plocher) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: touchtone dialing always works Message-ID: <385@puff.WISC.EDU> Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 02:10:07 EST Article-I.D.: puff.385 Posted: Sat Dec 13 02:10:07 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 23:45:44 EST References: <750@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU> Reply-To: plocher@puff.WISC.EDU (John Plocher) Distribution: na Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 23 Bernd Riechelmann writes: > I have learned to politely refuse this feature , because Touchtone always > works, whether ordered or not. Putting aside discussions of the morality of this... :-) I must say that it just ain't so *everywhere*. I live in a smallish town in Wisconsin (pop=3000) which has a MECHANICAL (relay) based Central Office. I had to order TT for my line because it didn't work "out of the box". The Phone Company came out to the CO and installed a DTMF => Pulse converter box between my line and their CO switch. The digital switches which are found in most major cities do not need this black box addition; in fact the enabling of TT is (can be) a simple software feature. As you seem to have found, sometimes this feature is always ON, but I'd think that the phone company would soon find out and fix the bug. (visions of a set-uid file owned by root which someone inadvertantly left writable by all... this is something sloppy which shouldn't have happened) ------ -- "Don't go to Pluto, its a Mickey Mouse planet!" - Mork ------------ {harvard,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!uwhsms!plocher (work) John Plocher {harvard,seismo}!uwvax!puff!plocher (school) ------------ decvax!encore!vaxine!spark!121!0!John_Plocher (FidoNet)