Asterisk: The Future of Telephony

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Name

dial

Synopsis

    dial [extension[@context]]

Dials a given extension (optionally, in the context specified) through the CONSOLE channel. This command is available only if chan_oss.so or chan_alsa.so is loaded in the modules.conf file.

    dial 1000@phones

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