Message-program and caller id

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:35:25 +0100


Hi,

On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 02:22:05PM -0500, Andrej Cedilnik wrote:
> > > I put in message_program shell script that stores enviroment variables and 
> > > only information about caller ID is the phone number (under the
> > > variable $CALLER_ID).
> > > Where would I get the name?
> > What name?  Name of the caller?
> The name of the caller. Caller ID has information about the number and 
> text string of callers name.

... in the US.

This isn't available here, so I didn't yet implement that.  (Not all
modems do report the name anyway).

gert
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