[Asterisk-Users] how to escape #

[Steven Critchfield]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:42, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:55:18PM +0100, WipeOut wrote:
> > >This morning I found myself stumped when a remote interactive system
> > >asked me to enter some identification followed by the # key, and my
> > >local Asterisk interrupted with "Transfer?".
> > >
> > >Is there a way to escape the pound key, short of disabling transfers?
> > >
> > Don't put the T or t options on your outbound dialing string..
> 
> So basiccally one has to choose between being able to transfer calls or
> sending # to remote IVR systems?

How often do you dial out and then use # to transfer internally? I think
# to transfer was actually added for those not directly connected to the
analog phone since then it couldn't detect a flash hook. You can turn on
three way calling and use the flash function to park a call, or three
way calling to consultive transfer the call before hanging up. You have
lots of options here, just be wary of those that overlap and then become
ambiguous. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>