Hrm. (no CND delivery until too late)

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>I've been trying to figure out how to do that with [mv]getty, but
>haven't found a way yet..  The cnd-program isn't called until the
>modem is ready to answer the phone.  That's too late.  I want to get
>the data as soon as it's ready

  Same here.  I've wanted to do exactly the same thing.

>The only thing I can see to do is log at a high level, and parse the
>log file.  Yuck.

    Yes, and that's exactly what I do.  I use caller-id to determine
  whether or not to ring the phone in my bedroom via X10 using an X10
  computer controller and a special module, but that's another story.
  Given it's rather time-critical, I read the caller-id from the mgetty
  logfile.  For other non-time sensitive things, such as logging the
  caller-id info to a logfile, I use cnd-program.  Not an ideal
  combination, but it's working well for now.

> It would be *so* much better if cnd-program were called just as soon as
>the data was ready.  Then it would be a piece of cake.

  Gert's been saying that the 1.1.20 release of mgetty will do this.  I've
  been eagerly awaiting its release.

-Jason

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