Re: tlug: Modem question

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 8 May 1998, Manuel Chakravarty wrote:

> "Jonathan Byrne" <jpmag@example.com> wrote,
> 
> > Perhaps someone will have an arcane technique for faking out
> > a modem to dial through a PBX, but you're probably out of
> > luck on this one. Modems can't deal with a PBX, and
> > unfortunately, most hotels are computer-unfriendly in this
> > regard.
> 
> But, I saw somebody doing it with Windoze...  (at least
> dialing out of a hotel - to be honest, I don't know what a
> PBX is).

Windows has a database of modems and it knows what command to use for
which modem.  A PBX is a PuBlic eXchange, commonly known as a phone
system...


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