On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk wrote: '*' and '#' have no pulse analogues. However, in the states at least, the equivalent to dialing a dial access code preceded by a star or pound is generally achieved by rotary dialing '11' before the code (ie. *69 would be 1169). As for trying to communicate with auto-attendants, you'll probably have to add external buttons to your rotary phone to give you the capability of dialing '*' and '#'. While a pulse-to-DTMF converter is a neat hack (and these sort of converters were installed in some step-by-step exchanges in the US, at least there were in my local exchange when we were step-by-step, but come to think of it I don't know why, unless they were converting my pulse dialed digits to DTMF so that some other adjunct piece of equipment such as a Dialed Number Recorder could know what digits I was dialing, for purposes of surveillance ;) it'd be easier to just buy a cheap DTMF phone. Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ever onward. September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2 See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details! [Last web page update: 07/21/98]