ok first off, about the lcr post, i got kicked i think cause i posted my email address. i apologize for that, didn't know you couldn't do that. i tried to write the site and apologize but no one responded. your post did help, it just took me reading it 50 times to figure out how it worked. but I got it, so thanks again.
now a few posts ago you mentioned the 296 ext. using cmd 18 to display the group. well if I go to cmd 183 de 1 de = END. I don't know what that means. (oh, i don't know most of these commands, so when you guys tell me to use one, i open my command manual and try to figure out data to end to get answers I need. I got all the time in the world.)

The 296 ext isn't a big deal just curious how it worked. i am sure that 7950-7957 are grouped as voicemail lines.
ok, you say in cmd 3512 that 3 tells us that you can expect to receive 3 digits from exchange. now in the command manual it says 3 = 4 digits. also you say exchange, does that mean the phone company's central office? I don't get what you mean, "use of the 400 and 500 range numbers" ok about the ext 570/3570 i apologize my post was a little confusing. I was trying to get it all in before leaving work. 570 and 3570 are 2 different occurances. not that I look into it more. I will start with 3570. we rent subscriber code 3500-3599. now originally those were setup in cmd76 like this.
3500-500
3501-501
etc. now the 500 is our internal ext's. in the beginning we only had 50 or 60 phones. so there were plenty of 500 ext's to give out. well subscriber code 3570 didn't got to 570, it went to 3570. which made me wonder. all internal ext's were 3 digit except voicemail (7950-7957) and the ext's for the receptionist (7901-7908). so 3570 was just wierd. I didn't know what purpose it served. thats all.
now 570. i opened a len listup that I saved before i deleted ext 570. my last post says on len 0113 = 3570. that is in correct. len 0112-len0115 is on a 8RSTA card. but it wasn't 3570 on len0113. its ext 570 on len 0115. so in the len listup this is what it reads.
7/24/2003 9:42:46AM
LEN Data Equip. Description
0112 E201 DTMF DTMF Receiver
0113
0114 E202 DTMF DTMF Receiver
0115 F570 DTERM DTerm
now you and our pbx installers say that is incorrect but this is a post directly from a listup ran from inside of matworx. and when I deleted that ext, matworx prompted me telling me that, this change will effect all ext's. I dunno, if you have any ideas that would be great. if not no bigge.
the way i have the system setup currently is ext's 5xx are for people. 4xx are there virtual lines. ie 550 is primary, and 450 is secondary. now 150-180 are where i put modems that dial out only. besides that ext 380 & 711. i don't know what they do. about 7999, rumors in my IT dept, say it was going to be used for dialing to the pbx and making changes but the pbx installers couldn't get it working. now i was incorrect on another thing. ext 7999 is very wierd. the only thing i found about that ext is subsciber code 3589 = 7999. when i do a len listup, its not on there. there is no len associated with it. but i can dial it and it rings twice then picks up like if you were calling a fax machine. i am puzzled.
you talk about indial and outdial ext's. could you give more info into this. this is confusing to me, or maybe i just am not reading it correctly. you mentioned that I could use the 7xx for out dialing ext's only. the only way i have been limiting ext's from dialing out is by cmd 1201(trunk restiction classes) is there another way?
you talk about the old and newer systems. i have read that the newer ones add a zero to some commands. when you told me to look up 7600. i did. now cmd 760 is did conversion for day mode and 761 is did conversion for night mode. but when you said cmd 7600, it gives the same results. so i assume they are 1 and the same. So maybe both commands work with our system? our len numbers start at 0000-0191. We have 3 Pim's. I hope this helps.
Off subject questions:
1)well question 1 and 2 are pretty close to the same subject so i just comment on both.
here is a cmd listup of cmd 07:
DTI Trunk/ISDN Trunk Assignment
Command First Data
0701 0800 D100
0701 0801 D101
0701 0802 D102
0701 0803 D103
0701 0804 D104
0701 0805 D105
0701 0806 D106
0701 0807 D107
0701 0808 D108
0701 0809 D109
0701 0810 D110
0701 0811 D111
0701 0812 D112
0701 0813 D113
0701 0814 D114
0701 0815 D115
0701 0816 D116
0701 0817 D117
0701 0818 D118
0701 0819 D119
0701 0820 D120
0701 0821 D121
0701 0822 D122
0701 0823 D123
0702 0800 D100
0702 0801 D101
0702 0802 D102
0702 0803 D103
Listup for PBX whose version is 2000IVS
Thu Feb 24 13:07:00 2005
now if cmd 0702 d100-d103 isn't pots what are those 4 lines?
in cmd 3000
cmd3000 de 001-004=10, 100-122=20, 123=21.
so i guess i don't understand how from cmd 07 do you get to cmd 3000. there is a step i think I am not seeing done here. how does cmd 3000 know cmd 0701 is the t1 lines and 0702 is the pots. i am guess that 0702 is the pots because we have 4 pots. and they are set to route 10 in cmd 3000. sorry for my lack of knowledge I am sure this must be hard to understand.
3) i kinda understand the purpose of the service restrictions. I was just curious if there was some documentation explaing all of the settings/options in that can be changed. i know how to change them, i just don't know what the options do.
Thanks again for replying. hope I clarified things here. well to the best of my knowledge.