[VoIP] Asterisk Programming Technique

[Martin Harriss]

Mark Rudholm wrote:
> Lee Spenadel wrote:
>> So it looks like I'm back to my original *x dialing plan for connection to
>> other services.  Hey, life could be worse. Thanks for your help guys.
> 
> FWIW, if you're on a Digium card FXS port, eleven pulses on a
> rotary dial is equivalent to an *
> 
> (twelve pulses is a # --not sure if there are pulse equivalents
> for the fourth column buttons)

Interesting -- I never knew you could generate eleven pulses like that. 
  Back in the old days, you could do some very interesting things by 
sending eleven pulses to a British UAX13.  But we didn't have Asterisk 
in those days, so we had to generate the eleventh pulse manually...

Martin