Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!pp!legendre!ned From: ned@legendre.ACA.MCC.COM (Ned Nowotny) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Unix-PC phone driver help Summary: They fixed what wasn't broke. Keywords: dial touch-tone Message-ID: <39@legendre.ACA.MCC.COM> Date: 27 Sep 88 23:34:21 GMT References: <8695@drutx.ATT.COM> Reply-To: ned@mcc.com (Ned Nowotny) Organization: MCC Austin, Texas Lines: 20 In article <8695@drutx.ATT.COM> mrh@drutx.ATT.COM (Mike Hudson) writes: > >I have a question for all Unix-PC phone driver gurus. >I would like to be able to use the "touch-tones" from the >keyboard after a call has been dialed and connected. >Regular "touch-tone" phones make the number tones at >any time during a call. I would like to emulate this with >the Unix-PC, but cannot figure out how to get the phone(7) >ioctl's to do it. The funny (?) thing is that the 3.0 version of the 3B1 phone manager software did allow you to dial additional numbers after connecting. However, in version 3.5 of the software, some bright person decided to "fix" this. I would have preferred a more constructive use of the programmer's time. -- Ned Nowotny (ned@mcc.com or {ihnp4,seismo,ucb-vax,gatech}!cs.utexas.edu!pp!ned)