area codes

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 05:43:32PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> Where things get much more interesting is dealing with dialing
> where we have nearby area codes where some exchanges are local
> calls, and others toll calls where one must prepend ``1''.  My
> dialcodes file for Hylafax is pretty ugly to handle these
> speciale case exchanges.

Ah yes, the difference between Directory Numbers and Dialling Patterns.

I'm doing Asterisk now; I'm intimately familiar with that.

Blame your PSC; GTEFL, back in 99 or so, told me that *they were not
permitted to accept blanket 1+10D* for all calls toll or otherwise; they
blamed the FPSC.

> It's left as an excercise for the reader to have the edit convert
> alpha characters to numbers (Sam Leffler put my code for this in
> the HylaFAX etc/dialcodes file, probably when it was still called
> flexfax :-).

Oh, you did that.  ;-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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