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Article #18714Re: Hypercard lossage
From: David Fry
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1987 20:18
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1987 20:18
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In article <1017@vi.ri.cmu.edu> rwb@vi.ri.cmu.edu (Bob Berger) writes: >Hypercard would be the ideal program for accessing various touch-tone >based information services. Unfortunately, the dial command ignores >"*" and "#", which many of these services use. Apparantly the programmer >never saw a need to dial non-digits. Sigh. > > >Robert Berger >Berger@c.cs.cmu.edu HyperCard knows how to dial non-numeric characters. Open the message box and type 'dial "#" with modem "ATDT"' and hear it make the noise. I assume your problem is the Phone Stack whose script purposefully removes all non-numeric characters before doing the dialing. Open the Phone stack and choose "Stack Info" (assuming you've set yourself to "Scripting Level"). If you click on the "Script..." button you can scroll through the routine that does the dialing. You'll find two instances of the string '"0123456789"'. Replace each of these with '"0123456789#*"' and you're in luck. David Fry fry@huma1.harvard.EDU Department of Mathematics fry@harvma1.bitnet Harvard University ...!harvard!huma1!fry Cambridge, MA 02138
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!huma1!fry From: fry@huma1.HARVARD.EDU (David Fry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hypercard lossage Message-ID: <2795@husc6.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 16:18:37 EDT Article-I.D.: husc6.2795 Posted: Thu Sep 3 16:18:37 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 11:28:17 EDT References: <1017@vi.ri.cmu.edu> Sender: news@husc6.UUCP Reply-To: fry@huma1.UUCP (David Fry) Organization: Harvard Math Department Lines: 29 Keywords: hypercard