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Re: [ECS] Final CID questions Peter Kraus Fri, 11 Sep 1998 02:06:22 GMT

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 Fri, 11 Sep 1998 02:06:22 GMT
what ever happened with this problem?

On Sun, 23 Aug 1998 13:21:50 -0400, you wrote:

>I believe you misunderstand my situation:
>
>I shouldn't even be getting a "?" for caller-id-name since I have a name
>defined for the number in a CID file referenced by a CID item.
>
>In other words (I'll try to be clearer), I have a CID item called "CID:
>File" which is set to "@CID LIST.txt".  So, if I had the Caller-ID service
>without names, the names would be looked up in this file, correct?
>
>I have Extended Caller-ID (something like that), which sends the names when
>the phone company knows 'em.  And when they don't, they seem to send that
>"O" for the name, but send the number correctly.
>
>Well, ECS now correctly keeps the number when the name is unknown, and sets
>the name to "?".
>
>Then it *should* look up the number in my CID LIST.txt file to see if I've
>given that number a name.
>
>That *sorta* works:  it *does* set the Caller-ID-C item properly, but
>doesn't properly set the Caller-ID-Name item.  It should use the same name
>out of the CID LIST.txt file to overwrite the "?".
>
>This is what my LOG output shows that I had included.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Gilmore [mailto:markgilmore@cococo.net]
>> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 1998 11:39 AM
>> To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
>> Subject: Re: [ECS] Final CID questions
>>
>>
>> Just check for "?" in the caller-id-name
>> AND caller-id-number Item.
>>
>> Ingo Dean (Outlook Express) wrote:
>> >
>> > Mark,
>> >
>> > There's still something I can't quite get to work on my
>> caller-ID routines:
>> >
>> > When a call comes in from an Unknown Name ("?") with valid
>> number which I've
>> > defined a name for in my Caller-ID file, setting the
>> Caller-ID-C item to LOG
>> > or SPEAK works properly.  But the Caller-ID-Name item continues
>> to be "?",
>> > breaking what I'm trying to do: only announce the number if the name is
>> > totally unknown (from phone company, and from my CID file).
>> >
>> > Am I still doing this wrong?
>> >
>> > LOG OUTPUT:
>> > -----------
>> > O 08/22  9:33 PM:Call from My ISDN Line at 626-5410
>> > O 08/22  9:33 PM:Call from 626-5410
>> >
>> > Program snippet:
>> > ----------------
>> > |       BEGINIF Caller-ID-C             Is Not Now      None
>> > |       Do      Text-A                  T1<-T1          MSG:Call From
>> > |       Do      Text-A                  Set             <Space>
>> > |
>> > |               For debugging only:
>> > |       Do      Caller-ID-C             Set             Log
>> > |
>> > |       If      Caller-ID-Name          Is              Question Mark
>> > |       Then    Text-A                  T1/A<-T1        Caller-ID-Number
>> > |       Else    Text-A                  T1/A<-T1        Caller-ID-Name
>> > |
>> > |               Announce it:
>> > |       Do      Text-A                  Set
>> Display/Log/Speak
>> > |       ENDIF
>>
>> --
>> Mark Gilmore
>> Omnipotence
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>>

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