[Asterisk-Users] Re: how to escape #

[Louis-David Mitterrand]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:29:49AM -0700, Anthony Minessale wrote:
> I run into that # issue sometimes too 
>  
> All I can do is hit ## so the lady tells me there is no ext really
> fast and i may not miss any of the call the # still makes it to the
> real call too.
>  
> If you knew in advance you are calling that kind of system you could always 
> clone the ext you use to make the call with a prefix to not use T flag 
>  
> ignorepat => 7
> like exten => _XXXXXXX,1,Dial(Zap/1/${EXTEN}|60|T) ; local # w xfer 
> 
> like exten => _7XXXXXXX,1,Dial(Zap/1/${EXTEN:1}) ; 7 means no xfer 
>  
>  
> You can always have ## make the lady go away real fast instead of
> telling you the obvious fact that # is an invalid ext  
>  
> 1 of the '# ' to activate xfer mode, then special ext # means you dont
> really want to xfer and takes you back to the call asap as the call in
> progress would have heard your 1st # and not the 2nd.

Thanks for you suggestions. Hitting ## works indeed.

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