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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcom4!ceb From: ceb@netcom4.netcom.com (Ch. Buckley) Subject: Re: SLIP under FreeBSD In-Reply-To: jkh@smspde.ilo.dec.com's message of 25 Apr 1994 12:33:38 GMT Message-ID: <CEB.94Apr25084922@netcom4.netcom.com> Sender: ceb@netcom.com (Ch. Buckley) Organization: Mauto, Palo Alto References: <2p6e4e$5oh@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <JKH.94Apr25123338@smspde.ilo.dec.com> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 15:49:21 GMT Lines: 34 In article <JKH.94Apr25123338@smspde.ilo.dec.com> jkh@smspde.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) writes: In article <2p6e4e$5oh@bigboote.WPI.EDU> hmctague@wpi.edu (Henry R McTague) writes: Also, does anybody know how to disable call waiting when using a dial-back system? Using dial-back? Woo.. I know that you can disable it using `*7' or something to that effect (ask your operator) but I'm not sure if that's for the lifetime of the _outgoing_ call you're about to make or just in general until you do a `*8' or whatever it is to re-enable it. If it's a `sticky' setting then you're in luck and should have no problem doing this. Like I said, best thing is to ask your operator for the control codes - they vary with different regional services. Ask your operator? That's a good one. It's probably been a long time since you've been in the US -- nowadays, for anything more complicated than the time of day, they transfer you to the business office, which may or may not be closed, or out to lunch (figuratively -- they nominally work straight through). In Pacific Bell land, if you have 3-way calling, you can flash an incoming call to get a stutter dial tone, dial *70, then flash back to the original call. I seem to remember that the Hayes command set has sufficient breadth to do this. But, whether it could be done quickly enough to prevent carrier drop from the calling modem is another storey. I've been asking steadily for years for something less arcane, and other service improvements, with little success. At least there seem to be people who think behind most of Europe's Telecom monopolies. --