Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: langz@asylum.sf.ca.us (Lang Zerner) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Number Editing on Telephones Message-ID:Date: 26 Sep 89 18:13:51 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: langz@asylum.UUCP (Lang Zerner) Organization: The Great Escape, Inc Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 411, message 6 of 8 In article vicorp!charlie@uunet.uu. net (Charlie Goldensher) writes: >In article you write: >>It has to be the most frustrating thing I can think of to wait five >>minutes for a dial tone only to accidentally dial a wrong digit and >>have to hang up and (after waiting for new dial tone!) start over. >This brings up a question that I've had for some time. Is there a >telephone set on the market with editing capability? Well, you could get a cheap terminal and modem, as long as the modem had a "dial but don't originate data connection" command. Hayes-compatible modems let you do this by adding a semicolon to the regular dial command (e.g. "ATDT5551212;"). This method may seem like overkill if you don't already use a terminal and modem, but it makes a lot of sense for someone like me who has the equipment on his desk anyway, often sitting idle. The Everex Evercom24E modem which I use even has a built-in speakerphone, so I don't need any additional telephone equipment for that line. Be seeing you... Lang Zerner langz@asylum.sf.ca.us UUCP:bionet!asylum!langz ARPA:langz@athena.mit.edu "...and every morning we had to go and LICK the road clean with our TONGUES!"