Distictive Ring

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Hi,

On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 03:10:45PM -0700, Devin Redlich wrote:
> At 11:38 PM 4/21/99 +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> >Use "cnd-program" to save the RING number somewhere, accept the call, read
> >the saved value from "new_fax" and act upon it.
> >
> >Not too elegant, but possible.
> 
> Hmm.  So, use a cnd-program like so: 
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> echo $4 > /var/distring/$1
> exit 0
> 
> and a new_fax that does something like:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> tty="tty`echo $4 | cut -c10-11`"
> distring=`cat /var/distring/$tty`
> case $distring in
> 	1)
> 		#do something
> 		;;
> 	2)
> 		#do something different
> 		;;
> esac
> 
> Or something like that?  

Yep.  This is pretty much what I had in mind.

> That looks pretty workable for me.  Perhaps in a
> future version, could you set the distinctive ring number as an environment
> variable in new_fax's environment (simmilar to what Marc suggested for the
> called number, but for us non-ISDN types), or pass it as a parameter to
> new_fax?

Parameter: no - it will break too many scripts.

Environment: yes.

gert
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