Hypercard phone dialing bug

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From: Dave Fritzinger
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1987 13:44

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Has anyone noticed the following bugs in the way that Hypercard dials the 
phone?  If you try to get it to dial a number such as 815-XXXX (just to site an
example of something I tried to do last night), it interprets the 815 as an 
area code, and puts a 1 in front of the number, which Ma Bell doesn't like.  If
you try to get around this problem by changing your preferences in the phone 
stack so that long distance numbers don't start with a 1, and you put a 1 in 
front of all your long distance numbers, Hypercard doesn't recognize the 
first one in the number.  This is especially annoyoying for me, since when I 
try to call NYC from NJ, I have an easy access code that starts with the number
10, which Hypercard refuses to recognize.

Okay, all of you hypercard people out there.  Is there anyway to get around
this problem?  Other than that, Hypercard seems great, considering the little
work that I've had a chance to do with it.

BTW, thanks to everyone who sent me messages about the Cricket Graph bug that
I reported.  Opening another type of graph first really does work.
Cheers
Dave Fritzinger allegra!phri!fritz
PHRI 455 First Ave. NY, NY 10016
212-578-0855

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Subject: Hypercard phone dialing bug
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Date: Sat, 17-Oct-87 09:44:58 EDT
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