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Article #3087Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
From: Bill Fenner
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:56
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:56
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In article <1jmjkbINNp9o@phakt.usc.edu> hho@phakt.usc.edu (** N.T.K.C.D. ***) writes: |Instead of taking the phone off the hook during news/batch etc. |Is it possible to run something TSR and answer the phone. It will |print out a message "System is busy, please call back in a few minutes.." If you have long distance callers, or long distance UUCP connections, this is an expensive way to do it -- it'll cause a completed call to get no more information than a busy signal provides. Bill
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!postscript.cs.psu.edu!fenner From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook? Message-ID: <C17tup.K05@cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: postscript.cs.psu.edu Organization: Penn State Computer Science References: <930113.080634.7B9.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> <s1HiXB2w165w@eternal.chi.il.us> <1jmjkbINNp9o@phakt.usc.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:56:48 GMT Lines: 10