Questions about caller ID and init-chat

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Hello,

I am using megtty 1.1.19 (and whatever vgetty was packaged with it at that
time.).  [I know, upgrade!] Since I got this as a RedHat RPM, I did not compile
it, and so had no access to modifications of policy.h to activate Caller ID for
my USR modem.

I saw in the docs that I could add an 'init-chat' clause to the port specific
section of mgetty.conf so I copied the entire init-string that mgetty/vgetty
was creating out of my log and created an 'init-chat' clause which added
'#CID=1' to my init string.  Since I run vgetty, and since voice.conf seemed to
duplicate many mgetty.conf entries, I added an 'init-chat' clause to voice.conf
as well.

While vgetty works fine and records the caller id of inbound voice callers, I
get nasty messages in vgetty.ttyS0 about the 'init-clause' in voice.conf like
so:

...

09/22 06:35:08 yS0  reading port ttyS0 configuration from config file /etc/mgett
y+sendfax/voice.conf
09/22 06:35:08 yS0  something foul in config line: 'init-chat "" ATQ0V1H0 OK ATS
0=0Q0&D3&C#CID=1 OK'
09/22 06:35:08 yS0      (keyword 'init-chat' not found)
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
09/22 06:35:08 yS0  check for lockfiles
09/22 06:35:08 yS0  locking the line
09/22 06:35:09 yS0  lowering DTR to reset Modem
09/22 06:35:09 yS0  send: ATQ0V1H0[0d]
09/22 06:35:09 yS0  waiting for ``OK'' ** found **
09/22 06:35:10 yS0  send: ATS0=0Q0&D3&C#CID=1[0d]
09/22 06:35:10 yS0  waiting for ``OK'' ** found **
09/22 06:35:10 yS0  mdm_send: 'ATI'
09/22 06:35:10 yS0  USR Courier/Sportster 56k detected
09/22 06:35:10 yS0  mdm_send: 'ATI3'
09/22 06:35:10 yS0  additional info: 'U.S. Robotics 56K Voice Pro EXT V4.8.163'
09/22 06:35:10 yS0  mdm_send: 'AT+FCLASS=2.0' -> OK
09/22 06:35:10 yS0  mdm_send: 'AT+FAA=1;+FCR=1' -> OK
09/22 06:35:11 yS0  mdm_send: 'AT+FBO=1' -> OK
09/22 06:35:11 yS0  mdm_send: 'AT+FNR=1,1,1,0' -> OK
09/22 06:35:11 yS0  mdm_send: 'AT+FLI="336 661 9186"' -> OK
09/22 06:35:11 yS0  mdm_send: 'AT+FCC=1,5,0,2,0,0,0,0' -> OK
09/22 06:35:11 yS0  detecting voice modem type

...

Is this 'something foul' a problem, and do I need the 'init-chat' option in
both mgetty.conf and voice.conf?

Second question:  I have a script set up to mail incoming voice messages to me
as a mine encoded WAV file using the 'message_program' option.  Is there a way
to pass the caller ID name and number to this?  Are they set as environment
variables or commandline arguments passed to the message_program, as the
temporary rmd file name is?  I would love to have this information on the email
subject line and avoid setting up a 'cnd-program' in mgetty.conf to send yet
another separate email for this.  I suppose that since the message_program only
kicks in for voice mail, while the cnd-program is activated for all connects
(true?) I may want to do this anyway. 

Again, do I need this in only mgetty.conf or in voice.conf as well, if I am
running vgetty?

Thanks again for all the hard work to create such a super program!!!

-- 
Tom Porter                                       txporter@mindspring.com
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