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RE: [ECS] Final CID questions Ingo Dean Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:07:36 -0400

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Either I was doing it wrong, or Mark fixed it in an update.  Probably
the former, since I'm still learning ECS...

Either way, the problem is gone, and I'm a happy camper!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Kraus [mailto:pkraus01@sprynet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 1998 10:06 PM
> To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
> Subject: Re: [ECS] Final CID questions
>
>
> 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.

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