RP> Personally, I agree with your philosophy, but it's 
 RP> not everybody running
 RP> a SOHO that feels comfortable "going under the hood" to make system
 RP> improvements, and many just don't have the time these days, biz never
 RP> having been so tightly competitive as it is these days. Fortunately,
 RP> this is that type of work that I do professionally 
 RP> for others, and so I DO
 RP> with my own gear ! And still, it's an "uphill battle", what with "this
 RP> revision to that revision", ad infinitum...
In that case, would you be able to tell me how (using a cannon fax) to dial 
so that a fax will be sent through the kind of phone system where you have to 
dial a number, get a second dial tone, then dial the number to send to?  Or 
tell me where in the operator's manual those instructions are?  All of the 
instructions about dialling are about programming speed dials, not one about 
how to make a dialling string of number-one second pause-number.  Other 
operating manuals have these instructions because so many places like 
hospitals have "dial 9 to get out' phone systems, and use fax machines, but 
the cannon fax seems to have either hidden this in an obscure segment or 
decided that cannon fax machines don't need to be sold to businesses with 
that kind of phone set up.  Since every fax machine manufacturer uses a 
different method to get that one second pause, experimenting can take hours 
on end without a successful send.  Nearly all modems use a comma, so I don't 
see why the fax machines can't have something standard.  You'd think they'd 
realise how that would help sales.  
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