On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, S.Toms wrote:
> Whats a good way to force diald to work when the phone is
> forwarded? I've tried removing the 'ABORT "NO DIALTONE"' adding
> a pause before the number being diald.
If I understand you correctly, "forwarding" means that there is no
dial tone when the phone goes off hook, but you can still dial
out? Weird. Anyway ...
I think it may be the modem that refuses to dial out if there's no
dial tone, not diald. With my trusty old ZyXel (which I dug out
of the attic after becoming thoroughly disgusted with both USR and
Supra fax; I now have two modems on one phone line, one for data
and one for fax, don't ask what the mgetty configuration looks
like) ... now where was I, oh yes, with my trusty old ZyXel it
looks like register S41.4 (register 41, bit 4) does the trick. So
a command something like (but not necessarily exactly like ... I
won't treat you to my manual's discussion of the proper way to set
bits in a bitmapped register) ATS41=16 would work with my modem.
Yours is almost certainly different. Take a look at ATX0 or ATX1
and register S6 too.
I do not recommend dialing out with no dialtone. I had a USR
modem that did that by default, and if I forgot to lock the line
before making a voice call it would regularly interrupt my voice
calls with DTMF tones. That may sound comical, or at worst
annoying, but I actually lost some voice mail once because the
modem dialed out while I was checking my voice mail and the first
digit in my ISP's phone number was 9 which is also the digit to
delete a voice mail message.
Find another way if you can. Maybe a phone guru can tell you how
to get a dial tone even if your phone is forwarded.
Ed
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