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Specify an alternate telephone number
$alternate_phone phonenum
This command is used to specify an alternate telephone number to be used when specified on the $retry_delays user profile command. If an alternate telephone number is specified for the attempt and this command is not given in the FS file, the regular telephone number is used.
The parameter on this command is used as follows:
| phonenum | fax phone number to call. For convenience when files are generated, the phone number on this command need not be enclosed in double quotes if it contains embedded spaces. |
If the phone number contains embedded spaces, parentheses, square brackets, hyphens, plus or slash characters, they are discarded. The processing of '+' is affected by the $country_prefix configuration command. The number is then processed as specified in the $phone_mask command, if any. Any other non-numeric character causes all following characters to be excluded from phone-mask matching (and then replaced). This allows you to specify, for example, a delay and then dialing an extension number (e.g. ",,,34"). It also allows a standard dial command prefix (e.g. "TW") to be used to bypass phone-mask processing altogether.
With digital telephone lines, non-numeric characters (other than those listed above as discarded) in a dial string cause the number to be rejected, since special prefix characters are never valid.
For Dialogic Diva and Brooktrout TR1034 fax dial operations, the number may be followed by a vertical bar and digits which are output as in-band DTMF between call connection and starting the fax transmission. The extra digits are ignored for the purposes of phone-mask and do-not-send processing. Immediately following the vertical bar, you may insert additional vertical bars (or commas) each of which adds a delay of one second between connection and starting to send the DTMF tones.
You can also use $alternate_cover to specify an alternate cover sheet template file to be used instead of the regular cover when the alternate phone number is used.
Default: Same as the regular phone number
Example:
$fax_phone "630 665 9841"
$alternate_phone "630 123 4567"
$fax_phone 6307788848
$alternate_phone 6307788848|,,1234
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