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UNIX PC 3.51 Telephone Manager Software
This section contains important information for using
Telephone Manager version 3.51. Please review this
information before using the Telephone Manager, and keep
it with your AT&T UNIJ(Bl PC Telephone Manager User's
Guide. Page numbers below refer to related information
in this guide.
NEW FEATURES:
1 Page 4-13. You can choose whether the Call
Screen or the Directory appears when you open
the Telephone Manager. By default, the Call
Screen appeC\rs.
To change the screen that appears when you open
the Telephone Manager:
a Select /Preferences/ in your Office and
press . The Preferences menu will
be displayed.
b Select / Phone Manager / and press ,
showing the Telephone Manager preferences
form.
c Highlight the First Screen Displayed
field.
d Press to select either the Call
Screen or Directory.
e Press to save the change.
As before, you may press - to move
from the top of the Directory to the Call
Screen, and to move from the Call Screen
to the Directory.
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~elephone Manager 3.51 Important Information
2 Page 4-53. A new command, phtoggle, is
available for selecting telephone lines. When
typed from a UNIX shell,
phtoggle
switches telephone lines connected to the UNIX
PC as follows:
Single-line systems
from VOICE 1: IDLE
to DATA 1
or
from DATA 1
to VOICE 1: IDLE
Two-line systems set to VOICE It DATA 2
from VOICE 1: IDLE DATA 2
to VOICE 1: IDLE VOICE 2: IDLE
or
from VOICE 1: IDLE VOICE 2: IDLE
to VOICE 1: IDLE DATA 2
Two-line systems set to VOICE It VOICE 2
from VOICE 1: IDLE VOICE 2 : IDLE
to VOICE 1: IDLE VOICE 2: IDLE
or
from VOICE 1: IDLE VOICE 2: IDLE
to VOICE 1: IDLE VOICE 2 : IDLE
See the AT&T UNIX PC Owner's Manual for
information on how to access a UNIX shell.
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Telephone Manager 3.51 Important Information
3 Page 4-55. A new command, phdial, is available
for placing voice calls. When typed from a
UNIX shell,
phdial nnn-nnnn
dials the telephone number nnn-nnnn just as if
you had selected the number from your
Directory. The Take Notes on Call? window
appears, allowing you to keep a record of the
call as described under "Keeping Call Notes and
History" in the using Telephone Manager section
of this guide.
4 Page 4-59. Dialing with the Telephone Icon.
You may place voice calls from any window, not
just the Call Screen or Directory, using the
mouse and the new telephone icon on the left
end of the status line. To use this feature:
a Point to the telephone icon with the mouse
and press . The arrow-shaped mouse
pointer will change to a hand holding a
magic wand.
b with the magic wand, point to any number
that appears on your UNIX PC screen and
press . The Telephone Manager
automatically dials the number.
To place a voice call to a number appearing
anywhere on your UNIX PC screen while in a UNIX
shell:
a Using the mouse, point to the telephone
icon and press . The arrow-shaped
mouse pointer will change to a hand
holding a magic wand.
b Point to the number with the magic wand
and press .
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Telephone Manager 3.51 Important Information
You may also display a picture of a dial pad
and place a voice call to any number by using
the telephone icon and the mouse. To use the
mouse and dial pad:
a Point to the telephone icon with the mouse
and press . The magic wand appears.
Press again, or press if you
are not still pointing at the telephone
icon. A dial pad appears, and the magic
wand becomes a hand with a pointing finger
as you move it over the pad.
b with the pointing finger, point to each
digit in the telephone number and press
. Each digit appears at the top of
the window.
c When you have entered the complete
telephone number, point to [DIAL] and
press .
Three other keys are on the dial pad: [BACK],
[WAIT] and [LAST #]. [BACK] works like a
backspace key, and lets you correct mistakes
made while entering numbers. [WAIT] causes
the call to wait for a secondary dial tone
before proceeding, and is shown as an equals
sign ( = ). [LAST #] shows the last number
dialed at the top of the window, which may then
be redialed.
5 On single line systems that are set to VOICE
mode, when you place a da ta call from the
console, the Telephone Manager will
automatically switch the line to DATA mode.
After the data call is complete, the line
switches back VOICE mode.
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Telephone Manager 3.51 Important Information
6 When you place a data call from a remote
terminal connected to a UNIX PC host with a
single telep~one line, that line must be set
up as a data line. From the remote terminal,
you may use the phtoggle command to switch the
phone line from VOICE to DATA mode (Item 2 f
"New Features", Page 2 of this section). You
may also press [LINE SELECT] on the host UNI~
PC to switch the line into DATA mode.
TECHNICAL TIPS:
1 Page 2-7. Ensure that all telephone lines
connected to your UNIX PC are idle before you
reconfigure telephone lines with the Telephone
Setup form.
2 Page 4-33. When you use the hyphen ( - ) as a
special dialing character to suppress call
history for a telephone call, only the name
and telephone number of the person dialed are
suppressed. Call history information in the
other fields still appear in the History List.
3 Page 4-59. You cannot place a data call using
the magic wand or dial pad. These features
can only be used to place voice calls.
4 Page 4-62. Allow the UNIX PC ample time for
processing if you are placing a data call from
the Call Screen or Directory using the autodial
feature to an external modem.
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elephone Manager 3.51 Important Information
5 Pages 4-80, 4-82. In order to print the History
list, you must save the contents of this list
in a file. To do this:
a Select the \ Save History List \ command or
the \ Save, then clear History List\
warning command.
b Enter the name of the file that will
contain the saved history list in the
"Save History List" window.
c Press to save this list in the
Filecabinet.
d Return to the Filecabinet and select the
saved history list.
e Press to print the file.
This procedure is necessary because the Print
History List options found in earlier Telephone
Manager releases have been removed from Version
3.51 of Telephone Manager.
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