Thanks for the suggestion, Carl.

I tried just dialing 9 for outgoing faxes and that works just fine so I think I will stop there for now.

I found this over at AbleComm:

"You can program a single-line phone, fax or modem to automatically grab an outside line, instead of intercom. Use pickup dialing ("hot line dialing" -- section 1.3.50 in the operating menu. You can program a 9 to use the first available line, or 81 for line 1, 82 for line 2, etc."

That sounds like what I was looking for.

It would seem to me that 99% of purchasers of the 824 system would have a fax or two connected. I can't imagine that implementation would be too mysterious.

Thanks again for the suggestion,

Hal

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