[asterisk-users] dialout-trunk vs. dial group

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 09:16:45AM -0600, Nathan Bell wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Is there any significant difference between using 
> Macro(dialout-trunk,1,${EXTEN}) and Dial(Zap/g1/${EXTEN})? If so, what 
> are the differences?
> 
> I am not using freePBX, or any variant of it, but want the 
> functionallity of dialout-trunk. If I define the trunk in zapata.conf, 
> will using Dial() suffice?

Macro(dialout-trunk,1,${EXTEN}) basically jumps into the context
macro-dialout-trunk (but also assigns some variables, and returns
later). So it really depends on what that specific macro does.

What extra functionality do you need?

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