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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
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Sender: ceb@netcom.com (Ch. Buckley)
Organization: Mauto, Palo Alto
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 15:49:21 GMT
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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.

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