Hrm. (no CND delivery until too late)

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Hi,

On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 05:26:18AM -0000, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Hrm.  I was at a friend's house, and he has this fancy caller id box.
> When the machine recognizes a number, it announces the call using my
> friend's recorded message.  So on his mom's number, the box says "Mom
> is calling".
> 
> I thought "Hey, I've got caller-id, a modem, vgetty, and an audio
> board with speakers, why can't I do that?"
> 
> 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

This was already on the wish list for 1.1.19 :-) - Marc Schaefer's
extentions to the RING handling go in that direction (ask cnd-program as
soon as we know the caller ID, and then decide whether to let the call
RING, reject it [if possible due to ISDN], accept it, wait for 5 more
RINGs, ...).

Since it involves a rewrite of the "incoming RING nastiness", it takes
more time than I had in the last months, so I didn't do it yet.  But I
most certainly will.

gert
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