How do I match a "D"? (Was: RE: [Asterisk-Users] In-band disconn ect problem (legacy PBX) - asterisk doesn't hear the touchtone?)

[Paul Rodan]

I'll ask a stupid question, how does a user hit an alpha letter from his
touchtone?

I know that the Cisco 7960's support entering alpha letters, and it could
potentially do it (maybe), but how does the average end user enter an a b c
or d from their touchtone phone?


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steven
Critchfield
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:58 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: How do I match a "D"? (Was: RE: [Asterisk-Users] In-band
disconn ect problem (legacy PBX) - asterisk doesn't hear the touchtone?)

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 09:15 -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> David Brodbeck wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, I figured it out.  The extension was working, but Background()
> > ignores the tones A through D by default.  I didn't realize this because
I
> > wasn't waiting for message playback to finish.
> 
> Please enter a bug in Mantis for this; it should very likely be 
> corrected, as I don't see any reason to ignore A-D in Background().

I would suggest that that be added as a optional switch to background to
get the extra digits. While I do not know if A-D are easy to hit with
Talk-Off, it is 4 more potential digits to hit. Also it would be less
surprise to a user to be required a flag to Background() to get those
than it would be to diagnose why you occasionally get dumped in an
invalid extension.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>

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