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Display Messages
Autoformat Display Phone Numbers
Display pagers are often used for alerting subscribers to call particular phone numbers.
Since phone number messages are so common, Zetron has provided an “Autoformat”
feature which is programmable for any subscriber with a display pager in the Subscriber
Database (see Managing the Subscriber Database with ZbaseW on page 55). In summary,
if this database field is marked “Y” for a particular paging subscriber, the Model 2100 and
Model 2200 paging software automatically inserts hyphen characters into numeric
messages that could be phone numbers. Of course, smart callers can still use the “*” key to
put in their own hyphens.
Obviously, adding hyphens to a message increases its length, so this feature is normally
used on pagers with at least a 12-character display size. In other words, a 10-digit phone
number (3-digit area code and 7-digit local number) would have 1 hyphen and 1 space
added to make it 12 characters long. Phone numbers with seven digits would require a
display of eight digits or more.
Table 6 describes in great detail how this display phone numbers auto-formatting works.
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