Re: NTLK eWorld ?

From: J. van de Griek (Joost_van_de_Griek@nl.yachtgroup.com)
Date: Thu Aug 10 2000 - 04:39:41 CDT


Victor Rehorst wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, J. van de Griek wrote:
>
> > 1. eWorld went out with the introduction of Newton OS 2.0; ergo, it is
not
> > in any MP2000.
> > 2. There are no UK ROM MP's, only US and German ones.
>
> But there are patch differences. To the best of my knowledge, Australian
> ROM patches disabled the Newton's DTMF tone generator because only devices
> registered with the gov't in Australia are allowed to generate these
tones,
> and the Newton was never a registered telephone device. Someone please
> correct me if I'm totally wrong.

I believe that that was a feature of all Newtons (US ROM ones, anyway); if
you set the location to anywhere in Oz, DTMF tone generation is disabled.

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..tsooJ

--
Joost van de Griek
Applications Developer
Yacht ICT
http://www.yachtgroup.com/

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