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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>On systems even key systems it is customary to have an ‘internal’
dial tone.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Since Asterisk simply ignores the 9 and keeps the tone going
it is hard to tell for some ‘new users’ if they can make a call.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My first idea was to change the generated dial tone via
source. Then if the user presses 9 go to a different context where I would record
about 30 seconds of the normal dial tone and then let them enter the numbers to
dial. Something it this:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[internal]</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>exten => 123,1,macro-stdexten(blah,blah,blah)</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>exten => 9,1,Goto(trunkgroup,s,1)</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>[trunkgroup]</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>exten => s,1,DigitTimeout,5</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>exten => s,2,ResponseTimeout,10</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>exten => s,3,Playback(bell-dialtone)</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>exten => _X.,1,Dial(Zap/g2/${EXTEN})</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>It Works but there HAS to be a better way!!!</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Maybe instead of ignorepat a changetonepat in the context. </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> How do others do this or am I the first????</span></font></p>
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